Installing Serverless Monitoring

1. Install the AWS Integration

Start by installing the AWS Integration. This allows Datadog to ingest Amazon CloudWatch metrics from AWS Lambda. The AWS integration installation also configures the Datadog Forwarder, which is required for ingestion of AWS Lambda traces, enhanced metrics, custom metrics, and logs.

2. Instrument your application

In addition to setup for your language, these instructions walk you through installation of the Datadog Forwarder and the Datadog Lambda Library, which you need regardless of language.