# Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/amazon-cloudwatch/amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-api/  
**Provider:** Amazon CloudWatch — https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudwatch/  
**Base URL:** https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API is one of 3 APIs that [Amazon CloudWatch](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudwatch/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Alarms. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, pricing, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, and 5 JSON Schemas.

Operations for creating, describing, and deleting metric alarms

## Machine-readable artifacts (17)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
- **GettingStarted** — https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/getting-started/
- **Pricing** — https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
- **FAQ** — https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
- **CLI** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-data-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-statistics-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-list-metrics-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-describe-alarms-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-put-dashboard-response-schema.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-cloudwatch-context.jsonld
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/conformance/amazon-cloudwatch-conformance.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/errors/amazon-cloudwatch-problem-types.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/amazon-cloudwatch-lifecycle.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Amazon CloudWatch APIs (2)

- [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-cloudwatch/amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards-api/)
- [Amazon CloudWatch Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-cloudwatch/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-api/)

## Tags

Alarms

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