I'm starting with ASK development. I'm a little confused by some behavior and I would like to know how to debug errors from the "service simulator" console. How can I get more information on the The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid. errors?
Here's my situation:
I have a skill and three Lambda functions (ARN:A, ARN:B, ARN:C). If I set the skill's endpoint to ARN:A and try to test it from the skill's service simulator, I get an error response: The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.
I copy the lambda request, I head to the lambda console for ARN:A, I set the test even, paste the request from the service simulator, I test it and I get a perfectly fine ASK response. Then I head to the lambda console for ARN:B and I make a dummy handler that returns exactly the same response that ARN:A gave me from the console (literally copy and paste). I set my skill's endpoint to ARN:B, test it using the service simulator and I get the anticipated response (therefore, the response is well formatted) albeit static. I head to the lambda console again and copy and paste the code from ARN:A into a new ARN:C. Set the skill's endpoint to ARN:C and it works perfectly fine. Problem with ARN:C is that it doesn't have the proper permissions to persist data into DynamoDB (I'm still getting familiar with the system, not sure wether I can share an IAM role between different lambdas, I believe not).
How can I figure out what's going on with ARN:A? Is that logged somewhere? I can't find any entry in cloudwatch/logs related to this particular lambda or for the skill.
Not sure if relevant, I'm using python for my lambda runtime, the code is (for now) inline on the web editor and I'm using boto3 for persisting to DynamoDB.
I think the problem you having for ARN:1 is you probably didn't set a trigger to alexa skill in your lambda function.
Or it can be the alexa session timeout which is by default set to 8 seconds.
Troubleshooting Amazon's Alexa Skill Kit (ASK) Lambda interaction