Investigations into monitoring serverless and edge functions on Netlify with Sentry

Hypothesis:

Adding error monitoring solutions to serverless/edge functions has the potential to increase code execution time when cold-starting/not cached, which could lead to timeouts depending on the complexity of the logic platform-specific function execution limits.

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Each serverless or edge function makes an arbitrary call to the Pokemon API, sorts the data, and returns the execution time of the function.

I collected data in production for the functions with and without using Sentry.

Netlify Functions (AWS lambda wrapper)

• Lambda without Sentry
• Lambda with Sentry

Netlify Edge Functions (Deno wrapper)

• Edge Function without Sentry
• Edge Function with Sentry