Michael Bahr 6/3/2021

How We Debugged And Fixed 'EMFILE: too many files open' On AWS Lambda NodeJS

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A technical guide detailing how a team diagnosed and resolved 'EMFILE: too many files open' errors causing latency spikes and timeouts in an AWS Lambda NodeJS function. The article covers analyzing CloudWatch logs, enabling Lambda Insights for system metrics like file descriptor usage, and implementing the fix by moving initialization code outside request handlers.

How We Debugged And Fixed 'EMFILE: too many files open' On AWS Lambda NodeJS

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