README.md

aws-lambda-datadog

A small library to facilitate sending metrics from an aws lambda function to datadog.

Installation

npm install aws-lambda-datadog

Usage

var metrics = require("aws-lambda-datadog");
var defaultTags = ["context:ingestion", "environment:production"]

...
push("new", function(err, data)){
  if (err !== null) {
    metrics.increment("aws.lambda.pusher.success", 1, defaultTags)
  } else {
    metrics.increment("aws.lambda.pusher.error", 1, defaultTags)
  }
})
...

Api Reference

method	type	params
increment	count	metric name, value, tags (default is [])
gauge	gauge	metric name, value, tags (default is [])
histogram	histogram	metric name, value, tags (default is [])
check	check	metric name, value, tags (default is [])

References

• https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-monitor-lambda-functions/
• https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/amazon_lambda/
• https://hackernoon.com/tips-and-tricks-for-logging-and-monitoring-aws-lambda-functions-885af6da29a5
• https://github.com/500px/lambda_dd_metrics/blob/master/lambda_dd_metrics.py

Tests

• make test - runs the suite once
• make watch_test - runs the suite everytime a file changes on src/** or test/**. (needs https://github.com/cristianoliveira/funzzy)