Amazon CloudWatch

aid: amazon-cloudwatch
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Amazon CloudWatch
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: Amazon CloudWatch is an intelligent observability platform providing complete visibility into performance, availability,
  and security across your entire technology stack. Monitor applications, infrastructure, and workloads with unified metrics,
  logs, and traces plus AI-powered insights.
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-06-20'
apis:
- name: Amazon CloudWatch API
  description: API for publishing metrics, creating alarms, managing dashboards, querying logs, and configuring observability
    for AWS resources and applications.
  image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - AWS
  - CloudWatch
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-data-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudwatch-get-metric-statistics-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudwatch-list-metrics-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudwatch-describe-alarms-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudwatch-put-dashboard-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-cloudwatch-context.jsonld
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/amazon-cloudwatch-openapi-overlay.yaml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/amazon-cloudwatch-mcp.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-cloudwatch-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-cloudwatch-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-cloudwatch-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-cloudwatch-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-cloudwatch-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/tag/amazon-cloudwatch/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=register
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-cloudwatch
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-cloudwatch-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-cloudwatch-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amazon-cloudwatch-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amazon-cloudwatch-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/amazon-cloudwatch-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/amazon-cloudwatch-llms.txt
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Unified Observability
    description: Monitor metrics, logs, and traces in one interface for complete system visibility.
  - name: AI-Powered Insights
    description: Detect anomalies and investigate issues using AI-powered CloudWatch Investigations.
  - name: Dashboards
    description: Create custom dashboards with pre-built and customizable metric visualizations.
  - name: Alarms
    description: Set threshold-based alarms on any metric to trigger automated actions.
  - name: Log Insights
    description: Analyze log data with SQL and natural language queries using CloudWatch Logs Insights.
  - name: OpenTelemetry Integration
    description: Ingest OpenTelemetry data alongside native AWS metrics and traces.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Infrastructure Monitoring
    description: Monitor EC2, RDS, Lambda, and other AWS resources with built-in metrics.
  - name: Application Performance
    description: Track application performance metrics and detect latency or error rate spikes.
  - name: Log Analysis
    description: Aggregate and query application logs for troubleshooting and analytics.
  - name: Automated Remediation
    description: Trigger auto-scaling, Lambda functions, or SNS alerts based on metric alarms.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Amazon EC2
    description: Monitor EC2 instance performance metrics including CPU, network, and disk.
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Monitor Lambda invocations, errors, and duration metrics automatically.
  - name: Amazon Prometheus
    description: Ingest Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch for unified monitoring.
  - name: Grafana
    description: Connect CloudWatch data sources to Grafana dashboards.
  - name: AWS X-Ray
    description: Correlate traces from X-Ray with CloudWatch metrics and logs.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
tags:
- AWS
- CloudWatch
- Monitoring
- Observability
- Metrics
- Logs