Installing Serverless Monitoring

1. Install the AWS Integration

Install the AWS integration. This allows Datadog to ingest Lambda metrics from AWS CloudWatch.

2. Install the Datadog Forwarder

Install the Datadog Forwarder Lambda function, which is required to ingest AWS Lambda traces, enhanced metrics, custom metrics, and logs.

Note: Skip this step if you already have the Forwarder function installed as part of the AWS integration CloudFormation Stack.

3. Instrument Your Application

Select the Lambda runtime below for instructions to instrument your serverless application.