What is @serverless/dashboard-plugin?
@serverless/dashboard-plugin is a plugin for the Serverless Framework that provides enhanced monitoring, troubleshooting, and management capabilities for serverless applications. It integrates with the Serverless Dashboard to offer real-time insights, alerts, and deployment tracking.
What are @serverless/dashboard-plugin's main functionalities?
Monitoring and Alerts
This feature allows you to set up monitoring and alerts for your serverless applications. The code sample demonstrates how to configure an alert for a high error rate.
module.exports = {
service: 'my-service',
frameworkVersion: '2',
plugins: ['@serverless/dashboard-plugin'],
custom: {
dashboard: {
org: 'my-org',
app: 'my-app',
alerts: [
{
name: 'High Error Rate',
conditions: {
errorRate: {
threshold: 5,
period: 300
}
}
}
]
}
}
};
Deployment Tracking
This feature provides deployment tracking capabilities, allowing you to monitor the status and history of your deployments. The code sample shows the basic configuration needed to enable deployment tracking.
module.exports = {
service: 'my-service',
frameworkVersion: '2',
plugins: ['@serverless/dashboard-plugin'],
custom: {
dashboard: {
org: 'my-org',
app: 'my-app'
}
}
};
Real-time Insights
This feature offers real-time insights into the performance and health of your serverless applications. The code sample demonstrates the basic setup to enable real-time insights.
module.exports = {
service: 'my-service',
frameworkVersion: '2',
plugins: ['@serverless/dashboard-plugin'],
custom: {
dashboard: {
org: 'my-org',
app: 'my-app'
}
}
};
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serverless-newrelic-lambda-layers
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Serverless Framework Dashboard Plugin

To enable the various features of the Serverless Framework Dashboard for a particular Service you must deploy or redeploy that Service, using Serverless Framework open-source CLI version 1.45.1 or later.
Upon deployment, the Serverless Framwork Enteprise Plugin will automatically wrap and instrument your functions to work with the Serverless Framework Dashboard dashboard.
Dev notes
Install dependencies and build SDK JS
npm i
cd sdk-js
npm i
npm run build
cd -
Test
npm t
cd sdk-js
npm t
cd -
Integration tests
For integration tests run you need an access to integration
dashboard organization, and generated for it access key.
Then tests can be run as:
SERVERLESS_ACCESS_KEY=xxx npm run integration-test
Release process
- Create a PR updating version in
package.json
- Create a draft release on github with a change log
- Have it approved & merge (Release is automatically published via CI)