Amazon CloudWatch · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements for Amazon CloudWatch API

7 actions 7 updates update extends openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-amazon-cloudwatch-api-api-openapi.yml

Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Amazon CloudWatch publishes. Amazon CloudWatch did not publish this file.

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What the actions change

x-apievangelist-paginationx-apievangelist-providerx-apievangelist-slugx-apievangelist-categoryx-apievangelist-authx-apievangelist-mcpx-apievangelist-tags

Targets 6

$.info

$.tags

$.paths['/?Action=GetMetricData'].get

$.paths['/?Action=ListMetrics'].get

$.paths['/?Action=DescribeAlarms'].get

$.paths['/?Action=ListDashboards'].get

OpenAPI Overlay

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for Amazon CloudWatch API
  version: 1.0.0
x-generated: '2026-06-20'
x-method: generated
x-source: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-openapi.yml
extends: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-amazon-cloudwatch-api-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-provider: Amazon Web Services
    x-apievangelist-slug: amazon-cloudwatch
    x-apievangelist-category: observability
    x-apievangelist-auth: aws-sigv4
    x-apievangelist-mcp: https://awslabs.github.io/mcp/servers/cloudwatch-mcp-server
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-tags:
    - AWS
    - CloudWatch
    - Monitoring
    - Observability
    - Metrics
    - Logs
- target: $.tags
  update:
  - name: Metrics
    x-apievangelist-note: Publish and query time-series metric data (PutMetricData, GetMetricData, ListMetrics).
  - name: Alarms
    x-apievangelist-note: Threshold and composite alarms that drive automated actions.
  - name: Dashboards
    x-apievangelist-note: JSON-defined dashboards for visualizing metrics.
- target: $.paths['/?Action=GetMetricData'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-pagination: NextToken
- target: $.paths['/?Action=ListMetrics'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-pagination: NextToken
- target: $.paths['/?Action=DescribeAlarms'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-pagination: NextToken
- target: $.paths['/?Action=ListDashboards'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-pagination: NextToken

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