How to Capture Errors At Launch

[eroltoker]

On one of my functions, I forgot to autoload the composer dependencies.

• The lambda function when being invoked would start/stop but there would be no error logged to cloudwatch.
• When I ran the script on my local machine, I instantly saw the problem (see below)

Question: Is there a way to capture fatal errors in the cloudwatch logs so I'm not forced to go hunting for problems (especially on larger projects)? The issue could be seen instantly in the apache2 error logs, so i'm hoping for something similar here.

Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class "Bref\Logger\StderrLogger" not found in /Users/erol/Desktop/vagrant-app/linkedinbot/lambdaHandler.php:8
Stack trace:

[mnapoli]

Hi! I'm very surprised you didn't see any logs in cloudwatch, are you sure you checked in the right function/log stream? Any crash should lead to an error.

[eroltoker]

honestly just knowing that's the expected behavior helps A LOT. I will work on this some more and report back.

BTW - this project is the greatest thing to happen to me in my programming career. Thank you for your hard work!

[mnapoli]

❤️ awesome!