# AWS CloudWatch Metrics API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-metrics-api/  
**Provider:** AWS CloudWatch — https://apis.io/providers/cloudwatch/  
**Base URL:** https://monitoring.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

AWS CloudWatch Metrics API is one of 8 APIs that [AWS CloudWatch](https://apis.io/providers/cloudwatch/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, pricing, a getting-started guide, an API reference, and 2 JSON Schemas.

Operations for working with CloudWatch metrics and metric data

## Machine-readable artifacts (25)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/openapi/cloudwatch-metrics-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-alarm-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-schema/cloudwatch-metric-schema.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/json-ld/cloudwatch-context.jsonld
- **Pricing** — https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GettingStarted.html
- **SDKs** — https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
- **Console** — https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
- **Features** — https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/features/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch-application-insights.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/latest/APIReference/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-InternetMonitor.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/internet-monitor/latest/api/Welcome.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-RUM.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatchrum/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Unified-Cross-Account.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/OAM/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

## Other AWS CloudWatch APIs (7)

- [Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/amazon-cloudwatch-application-signals-api/)
- [Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/amazon-cloudwatch-network-monitor-api/)
- [AWS CloudWatch Alarms API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-alarms-api/)
- [AWS CloudWatch Anomaly Detection API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-anomaly-detection-api/)
- [AWS CloudWatch Composite Alarms API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-composite-alarms-api/)
- [AWS CloudWatch Dashboards API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-dashboards-api/)
- [AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudwatch/cloudwatch-metric-streams-api/)

## Tags

Metrics

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