name: AWS CloudWatch description: >- Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources. accessModel: pricing: freemium onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: false label: Freemium ยท Self-serve signup confidence: high source: - plans - authentication generated: '2026-07-22' method: derived image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-05-19' specificationVersion: '0.19' url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml tags: - Alarms - Aws - Dashboards - Logs - Metrics - Monitoring - Observability apis: - name: Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals API description: >- API for automatic instrumentation and monitoring of application services with service level objectives. image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/application-observability-apm/ baseURL: https://application-signals.amazonaws.com properties: - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Application-Monitoring-Sections.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/applicationsignals/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ tags: - Apm - Application-Signals - Service-Level-Objectives - Slo - name: Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor API description: >- API for active network monitoring to identify network issues within AWS or company networks using synthetic probes. image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/network-monitoring/ baseURL: https://networkmonitor.amazonaws.com properties: - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/what-is-network-monitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/networkmonitor/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ tags: - Direct-Connect - Hybrid-Connectivity - Network-Monitor - Network-Performance - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-alarms-api name: AWS CloudWatch Alarms API description: Operations for creating, managing, and querying CloudWatch alarms humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Alarms properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-alarms-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-api name: AWS CloudWatch Anomaly Detection API description: Operations for CloudWatch anomaly detection models humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Anomaly Detection properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-composite-alarms-api name: AWS CloudWatch Composite Alarms API description: Operations for composite alarms that aggregate multiple alarm states humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Composite Alarms properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-composite-alarms-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-dashboards-api name: AWS CloudWatch Dashboards API description: Operations for creating and managing CloudWatch dashboards humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Dashboards properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-dashboards-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-metric-streams-api name: AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams API description: Operations for managing metric streams humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Metric Streams properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-metric-streams-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - aid: cloudwatch:cloudwatch-metrics-api name: AWS CloudWatch Metrics API description: Operations for working with CloudWatch metrics and metric data humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ baseURL: https://monitoring.amazonaws.com tags: - Metrics properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/cloudwatch-metrics-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/ - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: Documentation url: >- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html common: - type: PostmanWorkspace url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/aws-cloudwatch/overview - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/cloudwatch-agentic-access.yml - type: TrustCenter url: security/cloudwatch-trust-center.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/cloudwatch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/cloudwatch-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/cloudwatch-authentication.yml - type: Blog url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/management-tools/amazon-cloudwatch/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/ - type: Support url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ - type: StatusPage url: https://status.aws.amazon.com/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: ChangeLog url: https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/ - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: SDKs url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/_original/cloudwatch-openapi.yml - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld - type: SpectralRules url: rules/cloudwatch-spectral-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/cloudwatch-vocabulary.yaml - type: Features data: - Unified monitoring across AWS resources with automatic dashboards - Metric collection and custom metrics publishing - CloudWatch Alarms with composite alarm support and anomaly detection - CloudWatch Logs Insights for interactive log analytics - Synthetics canaries for endpoint and API monitoring - Real User Monitoring (RUM) for client-side performance - Internet Monitor for availability and latency tracking - Application Signals for automatic service instrumentation and SLOs - Cross-account observability with Observability Access Manager - Network Monitor for hybrid connectivity health - type: UseCases data: - Monitoring application health and setting automated alarms - Centralized log aggregation and analysis across AWS services - Tracking end-user experience with real user monitoring - Proactively detecting API and endpoint issues with synthetic monitoring - Managing SLOs across microservices architectures - Monitoring network performance for Direct Connect and VPN - Cross-account observability for multi-account AWS organizations - Anomaly detection on metrics to identify unexpected behavior - type: Integrations data: - Amazon SNS for alarm notifications - AWS Lambda for automated remediation - Amazon EventBridge for event-driven architectures - AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing - Amazon Managed Grafana for visualization - AWS Systems Manager for operational automation - PagerDuty and Slack via SNS topic subscriptions - Terraform and CloudFormation for infrastructure as code - type: Integrations url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace integrations: - name: Sign in - name: Agent Mode - name: Why AWS Marketplace? - name: Get started in AWS Marketplace - name: Industry - name: Resources - name: Become a Channel Partner - name: Sell in AWS Marketplace - name: Manage Your Account maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com