# Amazon CloudWatch API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/aws-cloudwatch/monitoring-api/  
**Provider:** Amazon CloudWatch — https://apis.io/providers/aws-cloudwatch/  
**Base URL:** https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

Amazon CloudWatch API is one of 2 APIs that [Amazon CloudWatch](https://apis.io/providers/aws-cloudwatch/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Monitoring, Metrics, Alarms, and Dashboards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- **User Guide** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/
- **Endpoints** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/cw_region.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Amazon CloudWatch APIs (1)

- [Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch API API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-cloudwatch/aws-cloudwatch-amazon-cloudwatch-api-api/)

## Tags

Monitoring, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards

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