Serverless Java Instrument Plugin (Alpha)

This Serverless plugin auto-instruments JVM-based package artifacts specified in the package.artifact configuration of the serverless.yml

For now, the only thing the plugin does is inject additional logging post function invocation. It does this via bytecode instrumentation to your Serverless function without additional source code changes on your part.

Example post-invocation log output of an instrumented function:

START RequestId: 024cecab-ba19-40c7-acae-2d2f4695edbe Version: $LATEST
2019-11-10 20:35:08 <024cecab-ba19-40c7-acae-2d2f4695edbe> INFO  com.serverless.Handler:31 - received: {}
{
  "threadId" : 1,
  "jvm" : {
    "vmName" : "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM",
    "availableProcessors" : 2,
    "heapMemory" : {
      "committed" : 20316160,
      "init" : 20971520,
      "max" : 883884032,
      "used" : 9277952
    },
    "nonHeapMemory" : {
      "committed" : 16187392,
      "init" : 2555904,
      "max" : 260046848,
      "used" : 10566024
    },
    "threadCount" : 4,
    "vmVendor" : "Oracle Corporation",
    "uptime" : "7106ms",
    "threadUserTime" : 660000000,
    "systemLoadAverage" : 0.07,
    "vmVersion" : "25.201-b09",
    "daemonThreadCount" : 3,
    "peakThreadCount" : 4,
    "threadCpuTime" : 750872982
  },
  "context" : {
    "awsRequestId" : "024cecab-ba19-40c7-acae-2d2f4695edbe",
    "functionName" : "jtest-dev-hello",
    "functionVersion" : "$LATEST",
    "identity" : {
      "identityId" : "",
      "identityPoolId" : ""
    },
    "invokedFunctionArn" : "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxx:function:jtest-dev-hello",
    "logGroupName" : "/aws/lambda/jtest-dev-hello",
    "logStreamName" : "2019/11/10/[$LATEST]e1e60c451d4141c0b881a9fb403a7b1c",
    "logger" : { },
    "memoryLimitInMB" : 1024,
    "remainingTimeInMillis" : 5374
  },
  "methodName" : "handleRequest",
  "className" : "com.serverless.Handler",
  "durationMs" : 566
}
END RequestId: 024cecab-ba19-40c7-acae-2d2f4695edbe
REPORT RequestId: 024cecab-ba19-40c7-acae-2d2f4695edbe  Duration: 682.41 ms     Billed Duration: 700 ms Memory Size: 1024 MB    Max Memory Used: 106 MB Init Duration: 430.46 ms      

Additional logging, metrics and insights will be added in the future!

Installation

First, add Serverless Java Instrument to your project:

serverless plugin install --name serverless-java-instrument

Then inside your project's serverless.yml file verify the following entry to the plugins section: serverless-java-instrument.

It should look something like this:

plugins:
  - serverless-java-instrument

Usage

You must have Java 8 installed. To install Java 8, see SDKMAN.

At its current state, the plugin will instrument any method where the the last parameter is of type com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context. See the AWS Documentation for building Lambda handlers in Java.

The instrumentation occurs automatically either after serverless package or before serverless deploy.