aid: amazon-cloudwatch url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Amazon CloudWatch type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg specificationVersion: '0.19' description: >- Amazon CloudWatch is an intelligent observability platform providing complete visibility into performance, availability, and security across your entire technology stack. Monitor applications, infrastructure, and workloads with unified metrics, logs, and traces plus AI-powered insights. created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-06-20' apis: - name: Amazon CloudWatch API description: API for publishing metrics, creating alarms, managing dashboards, querying logs, and configuring observability for AWS resources and applications. image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com tags: - AWS - CloudWatch - Monitoring - Observability properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/getting-started/ - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: CLI url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-data-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-statistics-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-list-metrics-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-describe-alarms-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-put-dashboard-response-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/amazon-cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Overlay url: overlays/amazon-cloudwatch-openapi-overlay.yaml - type: MCPServer url: mcp/amazon-cloudwatch-mcp.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/amazon-cloudwatch-conformance.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/amazon-cloudwatch-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/amazon-cloudwatch-lifecycle.yml common: - type: TrustCenter url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-trust-center.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/amazon-cloudwatch-authentication.yml - type: Portal url: https://aws.amazon.com/ - type: Website url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ - type: Support url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ - type: Blog url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/ - type: BlogRSS url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/tag/amazon-cloudwatch/feed/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/aws - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: SignUp url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=register - type: StatusPage url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status - type: YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices - type: StackOverflow url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-cloudwatch - type: Contact url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ - type: Compliance url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ - type: SpectralRules url: rules/amazon-cloudwatch-spectral-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/amazon-cloudwatch-vocabulary.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/observability.yaml - type: Packages url: packages/amazon-cloudwatch-packages.yml - type: WellKnown url: well-known/amazon-cloudwatch-well-known.yml - type: SecurityTxt url: well-known/amazon-cloudwatch-security.txt - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/amazon-cloudwatch-llms.txt - type: Features data: - name: Unified Observability description: Monitor metrics, logs, and traces in one interface for complete system visibility. - name: AI-Powered Insights description: Detect anomalies and investigate issues using AI-powered CloudWatch Investigations. - name: Dashboards description: Create custom dashboards with pre-built and customizable metric visualizations. - name: Alarms description: Set threshold-based alarms on any metric to trigger automated actions. - name: Log Insights description: Analyze log data with SQL and natural language queries using CloudWatch Logs Insights. - name: OpenTelemetry Integration description: Ingest OpenTelemetry data alongside native AWS metrics and traces. - type: UseCases data: - name: Infrastructure Monitoring description: Monitor EC2, RDS, Lambda, and other AWS resources with built-in metrics. - name: Application Performance description: Track application performance metrics and detect latency or error rate spikes. - name: Log Analysis description: Aggregate and query application logs for troubleshooting and analytics. - name: Automated Remediation description: Trigger auto-scaling, Lambda functions, or SNS alerts based on metric alarms. - type: Integrations data: - name: Amazon EC2 description: Monitor EC2 instance performance metrics including CPU, network, and disk. - name: AWS Lambda description: Monitor Lambda invocations, errors, and duration metrics automatically. - name: Amazon Prometheus description: Ingest Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch for unified monitoring. - name: Grafana description: Connect CloudWatch data sources to Grafana dashboards. - name: AWS X-Ray description: Correlate traces from X-Ray with CloudWatch metrics and logs. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com url: https://apievangelist.com tags: - AWS - CloudWatch - Monitoring - Observability - Metrics - Logs