# Trace AWS Lambda durable functions with Datadog

DevFeed: [Trace AWS Lambda durable functions with Datadog](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/trace-aws-lambda-durable-functions-with-datadog-2315.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/trace-aws-lambda-durable-functions/>)

Author: Joey Zhao; Yiming Luo; Pablo Martinez Bernardo; Ethan Gracer

Published: 2026-08-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [apm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apm.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [node-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node-js.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [serverless-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-monitoring.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog instruments AWS Lambda durable executions to connect telemetry from multiple Lambda invocations into one trace, helping developers investigate workflow operations, retries, waits, and failures.

## Source excerpt

Trace AWS Lambda durable executions across invocations to investigate operations, retries, failures, waits, and function status in Datadog.