Using Serverless Config to Deploy an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard

My team’s most recent project has been really interesting - it’s a JavaScript project that includes using the Serverless Framework to deploy a variety of AWS Lambda Functions (e.g. uploading to S3 buckets and making requests to the API that we built). Part of my responsibility as QA Engineer was to set up a metrics dashboard in AWS. Dashboards can be created manually in the CloudWatch service, but I wanted to create the dashboards through code deploys.

Prior to this project, I had zero experience working with AWS, so I was really excited to dig in and get started. I spent a few days this week going through documentation and writing the code, and I successfully deployed my dashboard on Thursday! I also added an alarm for one of the metrics, and created a separate monitoring board through LogicMonitor. I had a lot of fun getting this work done! I want to share some of the technical documentation pitfalls that I came across, how I got past them, and in general how to set up the configuration for deploying an AWS CloudWatch dashboard through code.

Read more about my experience with AWS CloudWatch on the Metal Toad blog: https://www.metaltoad.com/blog/using-serverless-config-deploy-aws-cloudwatch-dashboard