# CloudWatch Application Signals API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scalability/cloudwatch-application-signals-api/  
**Provider:** Scalability — https://apis.io/providers/scalability/

CloudWatch Application Signals API is one of 7 APIs that [Scalability](https://apis.io/providers/scalability/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, Observability, APM, Monitoring, and Performance. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and a getting-started guide.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals provides application performance monitoring (APM) to help detect and diagnose performance issues and automatically correlate them with infrastructure metrics for scaling decisions. Part of the AWS observability suite used in scalability engineering.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Application-Signals.html
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/APIs-guru/openapi-directory/main/APIs/amazonaws.com/monitoring/2010-08-01/openapi.yaml
- **GettingStarted** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/GetStarted.html

## Other Scalability APIs (6)

- [KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/keda-kubernetes-event-driven-autoscaling-api/)
- [AWS Auto Scaling API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/aws-auto-scaling-api/)
- [Google Cloud Compute Engine Autoscaler API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/google-cloud-compute-engine-autoscaler-api/)
- [Azure Autoscale REST API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/azure-autoscale-rest-api/)
- [Prometheus HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/prometheus-http-api/)
- [Grafana HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/scalability/grafana-http-api/)

## Tags

Amazon Web Services, Observability, APM, Monitoring, Performance

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