{"id":155,"date":"2020-01-23T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/?p=155"},"modified":"2022-03-24T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:48:37","slug":"what-is-serverless-observability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/2020\/01\/23\/what-is-serverless-observability\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Serverless Observability?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nc_T0iDzJpM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;' sandbox='allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the best parts of my job as a RedMonk analyst is interviewing super smart people and listening to what they have to tell me about tech. It\u2019s even better when the smart people are also delightful, and the tech in question involves not one but two important trends we are following. Such was the case a few weeks ago when we recorded a video on \u201cWhat is serverless observability, and why does it matter?\u201d with folks from New Relic and AWS.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some background<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Relic launched its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.newrelic.com\/product-news\/monitor-aws-lambda\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serverless for AWS Lambda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offering in spring 2019. Notably, while most spaces in the industry are expanding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/2018\/12\/14\/serverless-more-than-just-functions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">definitions of serverless<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at present \u201cserverless observability\u201d at New Relic is confined to AWS Lambda. To my mind this provides a stark contrast between the ways ideation and implementation often work in tech: while we may be willing to extend the name serverless ad infinitum, an observability solution has to start somewhere finite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November 2019 New Relic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/read.iopipe.com\/founders-note-iopipe-joins-new-relic-c15eeda47151\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">acquired IOpipe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which specialized in monitoring and observability for serverless applications. New Relic has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.newrelic.com\/product-news\/iopipe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">positioned the acquisition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of people and tech as complementary to their existing serverless offerings. While it promises improved and expanded support for serverless observability, I am particularly keen to see what it means for related developer tooling.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conversation<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the acquisition was announced, the idea of filming with New Relic on serverless observability seemed obvious. Check out the list of guests and topics covered:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danilop\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danilo Poccia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, (Principal Evangelist, Serverless, at AWS) provides an efficient history of an evolution of architectures from monolith to serverless, and how AWS is seeing clients build with serverless. He also manages a quick overview of observability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewindisch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erica Windisch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, (co-founder and former CTO at IOpipe, now Principal Engineer at New Relic; also an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/developer\/community\/heroes\/erica-windisch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Serverless Hero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) discusses some of the problems serverless solves and, conversely, some of the challenges it creates (especially regarding observability).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thoughtsonfly\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Tunall<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GM, Serverless at New Relic; formerly at AWS) explains how New Relic provides a serverless observability solution that can help developers address these challenges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-1024x560.png\" alt=\"Graphic on \u201cHow New Relic provides serverless observability\u201d\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-1536x841.png 1536w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-480x263.png 480w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability-1146x627.png 1146w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/files\/2020\/01\/New-Relic-Serverless-Observability.png 1807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graphic on \u201cHow New Relic provides serverless observability\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional Resources<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are looking for related resources, New Relic has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/newrelic.com\/products\/serverless-aws-lambda\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a product page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for its Serverless for AWS Lambda offering; however, if you are like me you may want to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.newrelic.com\/docs\/serverless-function-monitoring\/aws-lambda-monitoring\/get-started\/introduction-new-relic-monitoring-aws-lambda\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">start with the docs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related posts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/kfitzpatrick\/2020\/01\/17\/2020-research-interests\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some 2020 Research Interests<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2020\/01\/06\/research-in-2020-stuff-i-am-thinking-about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research in 2020: stuff I am thinking about<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2018\/09\/14\/the-quickening-a-keynote-about-software-development-velocity-at-new-relics-futurestack-2018-conference\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Quickening: a keynote about software development velocity at New Relic\u2019s Futurestack 2018 Conference<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/2018\/12\/14\/serverless-more-than-just-functions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serverless: More Than Just Functions<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2018\/03\/23\/aws-lambda-driven-by-the-laggards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda: driven by the laggards<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: New Relic and AWS are RedMonk clients. The video discussed in this post was sponsored by New Relic (but this post was not).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best parts of my job as a RedMonk analyst is interviewing super smart people and listening to what they have to tell me about tech. It\u2019s even better when the smart people are also delightful, and the tech in question involves not one but two important trends we are following. 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