A Serverless Approach to Network Monitoring: Implementing Real-time Uptime and Latency Tracking with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
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A Serverless Approach to Network Monitoring: Implementing Real-time Uptime and Latency Tracking with AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Alpa Jagani¹, Dr. B. Indira²
¹MCA III Semester, Department of MCA, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (A), Gandipet, Hyderabad, India
2Associate Professor, Department of MCA, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (A), Gandipet, Hyderabad, India
Abstract
Managing network infrastructure is one of the major challenges for companies that are using distributed systems [4]. Traditional methods of monitoring usually need manual scaling procedures and also specialized hardware [4]. This often leads to operational inefficiencies and to a great extent higher costs [2]. This study presents a different approach that uses serverless computing technologies to avoid these problems [1]. We developed a monitoring system with Python functions for AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. This system helps track DNS resolution metrics, TCP port availability, and HTTP endpoints. We store the collected monitoring data in an organized JSON format using Amazon S3 buckets [6].
In comparison with conventional server-based monitoring systems, our research indicates a 77% cost savings and a 99.7% accuracy level in the identification of problems [2]. Notably, the system described above can continuously monitor as many as 75 targets simultaneously with no user intervention required owing to its high scalability [5]. The advantages of serverless architecture to operational monitoring are discussed in depth in this paper, and it is also demonstrated how cloud-based substitutes of conventional monitoring systems can be utilized [1].
Keywords: Serverless computing, Network monitoring, AWS Lambda, Real-time monitoring.
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