Amazon CloudWatch

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.

Amazon CloudWatch publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Alarms API, Dashboards API, and Metrics API. Tagged areas include CloudWatch, Monitoring, Observability, Metrics, and Logs.

The Amazon CloudWatch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon CloudWatch’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, and 21 more developer resources.

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61.1/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

AccessSelf serve

3 APIs 6 Features 4 Use Cases

CloudWatchMonitoringObservabilityMetricsLogs

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9

Composite quality — 61.1/100 · strong

Contract Quality 20.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 9.6 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API

Operations for creating, describing, and deleting metric alarms

Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards API

Operations for creating, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch dashboards

Amazon CloudWatch Metrics API

Operations for publishing, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch metrics

Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API

POSTMAN

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms Dashboards API

POSTMAN

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms Metrics API

POSTMAN

Features 6

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Unified Observability

Monitor metrics, logs, and traces in one interface for complete system visibility.

AI-Powered Insights

Detect anomalies and investigate issues using AI-powered CloudWatch Investigations.

Dashboards

Create custom dashboards with pre-built and customizable metric visualizations.

Alarms

Set threshold-based alarms on any metric to trigger automated actions.

Log Insights

Analyze log data with SQL and natural language queries using CloudWatch Logs Insights.

OpenTelemetry Integration

Ingest OpenTelemetry data alongside native AWS metrics and traces.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Cloudwatch Context

10 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon CloudWatch API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon CloudWatch API Rules

25 rules · 12 errors 10 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 11

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Amazon CloudWatch Alarm

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Alarm

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dashboard

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAlarmsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetDashboardResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetMetricDataResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetMetricStatisticsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListDashboardsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListMetricsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Metric

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutDashboardResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 10

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Cloudwatch Alarm Structure

19 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Dashboard Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Describe Alarms Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Get Dashboard Response Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Get Metric Data Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Get Metric Statistics Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch List Dashboards Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch List Metrics Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Metric Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudwatch Put Dashboard Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 10

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Cloudwatch Alarm Example

19 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Dashboard Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Describe Alarms Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Get Dashboard Response Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Get Metric Data Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Get Metric Statistics Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch List Dashboards Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch List Metrics Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Metric Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Cloudwatch Put Dashboard Response Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Cloudwatch Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Cloudwatch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Cloudwatch Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Cloudwatch Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Cloudwatch Agentic Access

10 operations

10 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers build with this provider.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitor EC2, RDS, Lambda, and other AWS resources with built-in metrics.

Application Performance

Track application performance metrics and detect latency or error rate spikes.

Log Analysis

Aggregate and query application logs for troubleshooting and analytics.

Automated Remediation

Trigger auto-scaling, Lambda functions, or SNS alerts based on metric alarms.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Amazon EC2

Monitor EC2 instance performance metrics including CPU, network, and disk.

AWS Lambda

Monitor Lambda invocations, errors, and duration metrics automatically.

Amazon Prometheus

Ingest Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch for unified monitoring.

Grafana

Connect CloudWatch data sources to Grafana dashboards.

AWS X-Ray

Correlate traces from X-Ray with CloudWatch metrics and logs.

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Console

Console

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

StackOverflow

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Source (apis.yml)

aid: amazon-cloudwatch
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-cloudwatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Amazon CloudWatch
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amazon-cloudwatch.png
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:
- aid: amazon-cloudwatch:amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-api
  name: Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API
  description: Operations for creating, describing, and deleting metric alarms
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Alarms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-api-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: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-cloudwatch-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-cloudwatch-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-cloudwatch-lifecycle.yml
- aid: amazon-cloudwatch:amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards-api
  name: Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards API
  description: Operations for creating, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch dashboards
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-dashboards-api-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: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-cloudwatch-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-cloudwatch-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-cloudwatch-lifecycle.yml
- aid: amazon-cloudwatch:amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-api
  name: Amazon CloudWatch Metrics API
  description: Operations for publishing, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch metrics
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
  baseURL: https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-api-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: 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: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-cloudwatch/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-cloudwatch-agentic-access.yml
- 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

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