Debugging Lex chatbots

As with Alexa skills, there are a few different places that can cause errors in your chatbot. Here are a few things you need to check:

• You are using the correct utterances
• Your intent has a text response or is triggering the correct Lambda
• Your intent has been saved and the chatbot built and deployed
• Your connected platform is properly configured (Facebook, Slack, API)
• Your Lambdas are working

Check your utterances

If Lex is saying that it couldn't understand what you said, then it couldn't match your utterance to an intent. There are two ways this can happen: you don't have any sample utterances close enough to the utterance you used, or there are two sample utterances on different...