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Full article: https://dashbird.io/blog/metric-based-alerting-for-aws-lambda/

The phrase “better safe than sorry” gets thrown around whenever people talk about monitoring or getting observability into your AWS resources but the truth is that you can’t sit around and wait until a problem arises, you need to proactively look for opportunities to improve your application in order to stay one step ahead of the competition. Setting up alerts that go off whenever a particular event happens is a great way to keep tabs on what’s going on behind the scenes of your serverless applications and this is exactly what this [article](http

AWS Kinesis is a professional tool that comes with its share of complications. This article will discuss the most common issues and explain how to fix them: https://dashbird.io/blog/5-common-aws-kinesis-issues/

We cover the following:

• What limits apply when AWS Lambda is subscribed to a Kinesis stream?
• Data loss with Kinesis streams and Lambda
• InvokeAccessDenied error when pushing records from Firehose to Lambda
• Error when trying to update the Shard Count
• Shard is not closed