aid: aws-cloudwatch
name: Amazon CloudWatch
description: >-
  Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service from AWS that
  collects metrics, logs, and events from AWS resources, applications, and
  on-premises services. It enables operators to set alarms, visualize
  dashboards, automate responses, and troubleshoot performance across cloud
  workloads. The CloudWatch Query API and AWS SDKs expose programmatic access
  to metrics, alarms, dashboards, and Logs via AWS Signature Version 4
  authenticated HTTPS requests.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
  - Metrics
  - Logs
  - Alarms
  - Cloud
  - AWS
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: aws-cloudwatch:monitoring-api
    name: Amazon CloudWatch API
    description: >-
      Query API for publishing and retrieving metrics, managing alarms, and
      configuring dashboards in Amazon CloudWatch. Requests are authenticated
      with AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) using AWS access keys or temporary
      IAM credentials.
    humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
    baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
    tags:
      - Monitoring
      - Metrics
      - Alarms
      - Dashboards
      - AWS
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
      - type: User Guide
        url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/
      - type: Endpoints
        url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/cw_region.html

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
  - type: Sign Up
    url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com