Fastly Lifts Veil on Real-Time Serverless Computing Performance With Logging, Tracing, and Metrics
June 30 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Fastly’s heritage in observability now extends
to its serverless compute environment, helping organizations inform
mission-critical business decisions.
Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of a global edge cloud
platform, today announced the extension of its platform’s
observability features to its Compute@Edge serverless compute
environment. These advancements include customizable logging,
real-time and historical metrics, and newly-launched tracing,
giving developers newfound transparency into what happens after
code is deployed within a serverless architecture and unlocking
mission-critical visibility needed to find and fix operational
issues fast. Fastly’s Compute@Edge helps companies build
applications and execute code on its globally distributed
infrastructure, at the edge of the internet, without any of the
maintenance or headache of managing it directly.
“At Fastly, we think observability should go beyond logging and
monitoring to also provide the context and data needed to answer
crucial questions about serverless performance and, ultimately, an
end user’s experience,” said Tyler McMullen, CTO of Fastly. “In
addition to concerns about cold start times, observability has been
a top apprehension with serverless among developers. With
Compute@Edge, we solved for the first concern with a 100x faster
startup time than any other solution in the market. Now, we’re
excited to solve the second by giving customers layers of
observability critical for data-driven decision making and
understanding core system performance.”
Compute@Edge accomplishes this level of observability by
providing developers with:
- Customizable Logging: Developers can send real-time logs
to 27 supported endpoints and counting. Developers have access to
automatically-exposed default log fields, and can also capture
custom event details that meet their business needs. Having access
to log data helps developers determine the root cause of a host of
potential issues, from infrastructure to end-user.
- Real-time and Historical Metrics: Compute@Edge surfaces
rich metrics, such as CPU and RAM utilization, and lets developers
explore that data as it happens, or in historical analysis. This
increased visibility allows developers to better monitor
application performance and react in real time to keep a site
online, which can support revenue and a better end-user
experience.
- End-to-End Request Visibility: Compute@Edge honors
request tracing parameters by maintaining them when they enter and
leave the Fastly platform. Developers can tag individual end-user
requests with unique identifiers, helping illuminate any blind
spots in multi-technology infrastructures and providing details on
the request’s lifetime. Users can pass this information along to
third-party systems like Datadog that help with data visualization,
and to conduct further, tailored analysis.
“Serverless architecture has changed the game for
operationalizing and managing product workloads,” said Ilan
Rabinovitch, Vice President, Product & Community at Datadog, a
monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, and a
Fastly integration partner for data storage and analysis. “As an
integrated logging and data visualization partner, we’re thrilled
to be part of this advanced serverless offering that will enable a
new generation of low latency applications. Our partnership will
provide Compute@Edge users real-time visibility and insight into
infrastructure and performance from edge to origin.”
Customers are testing use cases that range from content
transformation at the edge, to identity enforcement, to
enterprise-wide data loss prevention and data protection. RVU, the
UK’s leading resource for market comparison sites and apps such as
Uswitch, Money, and Bankrate, is encouraged by the observability
built into Compute@Edge’s development experience. “Fastly’s new
Compute@Edge offering aligns with RVU’s vision for the future and
our team is excited to leverage the data and deeper insights into
performance that it provides,” said Tom Booth, Head of
Infrastructure and Security at RVU. “In addition to the broad
benefits of externalizing business logic to the edge, having more
visibility and scalability are critical to our workflows and
business processes, and from our experience so far, we see promise
that these capabilities are finally attainable through serverless
technology.”
To learn more about Fastly’s Compute@Edge beta program and
observability capabilities, read its latest
blog, and keep an eye on Fastly’s newly launched Developer
Hub for additional resources. Developers and businesses interested
in being part of the beta can sign up for details by visiting
https://www.fastly.com/products/edge-compute/serverless.
About Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they
love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create
great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by
processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as
close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet.
The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet,
to be programmable, and to support agile software development.
Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent
companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and
GitHub.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that
are based on Fastly’s beliefs and assumptions and on information
currently available to Fastly on the date of this press release.
Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other factors that may cause its actual results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These
statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding the
ability of developers to build applications and execute code at the
edge without direct management, the expected benefits of
observability, customizable logging, real-time and historical
metrics, and request tracing and the ability of users to realize
these benefits, the impact to end-user experiences and revenue
through insights provided by Fastly’s partnership with Datadog, the
attainment of visibility and scalability, the speed, security and
computing capabilities of Fastly’s Compute@Edge environment, the
development of innovative use cases, and the evolution of
Compute@Edge in the market. Except as required by law, Fastly
assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements
publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking
statements, even if new information becomes available in the
future. Important factors that could cause Fastly’s actual results
to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports
Fastly files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended March 31, 2020. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are
posted on Fastly’s website and are available from Fastly without
charge.
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