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 is listed with 48 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Alarms API, Dashboards API, Metrics API, and 45 more. Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, CloudWatch, Monitoring, Observability, and Metrics.
The Amazon CloudWatch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.
Amazon CloudWatch’s developer surface includes CLI, getting-started guide, authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, and 48 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 48
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
Amazon CloudWatch API
Query API for publishing and retrieving metrics, managing alarms, and configuring dashboards in Amazon CloudWatch. Requests are authenticated with AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4...
Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch API
The Amazon CloudWatch API API from Amazon CloudWatch — 1 operation(s) for amazon cloudwatch api.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Alarm Mute Rule API
The Cloudwatch Alarm Mute Rule API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch alarm mute rule.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Anomaly Detector API
The Cloudwatch Anomaly Detector API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch anomaly detector.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Insight Rule API
The Cloudwatch Insight Rule API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch insight rule.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Metric Stream API
The Cloudwatch Metric Stream API from Amazon CloudWatch — 6 operation(s) for cloudwatch metric stream.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch O Tel Enrichment API
The Cloudwatch O Tel Enrichment API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch o tel enrichment.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Resource Metrics Configuration API
The Cloudwatch Resource Metrics Configuration API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch resource metrics configuration.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Account Policy API
The Cloudwatch Account Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch account policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Application API
The Cloudwatch Application API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch application.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Appmonitor API
The Cloudwatch Appmonitor API from Amazon CloudWatch — 2 operation(s) for cloudwatch appmonitor.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Canary API
The Cloudwatch Canary API from Amazon CloudWatch — 2 operation(s) for cloudwatch canary.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Component API
The Cloudwatch Component API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch component.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Data Protection Policy API
The Cloudwatch Data Protection Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch data protection policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Delivery API
The Cloudwatch Delivery API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch delivery.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Delivery Destination API
The Cloudwatch Delivery Destination API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch delivery destination.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Delivery Destination Policy API
The Cloudwatch Delivery Destination Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch delivery destination policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Delivery Source API
The Cloudwatch Delivery Source API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch delivery source.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Destination API
The Cloudwatch Destination API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch destination.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Export Task API
The Cloudwatch Export Task API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch export task.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Group API
The Cloudwatch Group API from Amazon CloudWatch — 2 operation(s) for cloudwatch group.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Import Task API
The Cloudwatch Import Task API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch import task.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Index Policy API
The Cloudwatch Index Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch index policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Integration API
The Cloudwatch Integration API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch integration.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Log Anomaly Detector API
The Cloudwatch Log Anomaly Detector API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch log anomaly detector.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Log Group API
The Cloudwatch Log Group API from Amazon CloudWatch — 7 operation(s) for cloudwatch log group.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Log Pattern API
The Cloudwatch Log Pattern API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch log pattern.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Log Stream API
The Cloudwatch Log Stream API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch log stream.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Lookup Table API
The Cloudwatch Lookup Table API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch lookup table.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Metric Filter API
The Cloudwatch Metric Filter API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch metric filter.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Metricsdestination API
The Cloudwatch Metricsdestination API from Amazon CloudWatch — 1 operation(s) for cloudwatch metricsdestination.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Monitors API
The Cloudwatch Monitors API from Amazon CloudWatch — 2 operation(s) for cloudwatch monitors.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Operations API
The Cloudwatch Operations API from Amazon CloudWatch — 91 operation(s) for cloudwatch operations.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Policy API
The Cloudwatch Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 1 operation(s) for cloudwatch policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Problem API
The Cloudwatch Problem API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch problem.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Query API
The Cloudwatch Query API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch query.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Query Definition API
The Cloudwatch Query Definition API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch query definition.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Resource Policy API
The Cloudwatch Resource Policy API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch resource policy.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Scheduled Query API
The Cloudwatch Scheduled Query API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch scheduled query.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Slo API
The Cloudwatch Slo API from Amazon CloudWatch — 2 operation(s) for cloudwatch slo.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Source API
The Cloudwatch Source API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch source.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Subscription Filter API
The Cloudwatch Subscription Filter API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch subscription filter.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Syslog Configuration API
The Cloudwatch Syslog Configuration API from Amazon CloudWatch — 3 operation(s) for cloudwatch syslog configuration.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Transformer API
The Cloudwatch Transformer API from Amazon CloudWatch — 4 operation(s) for cloudwatch transformer.
Amazon CloudWatch Cloudwatch Workload API
The Cloudwatch Workload API from Amazon CloudWatch — 5 operation(s) for cloudwatch workload.
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Postman Collections 3
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API
POSTMANOpen Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon CloudWatch Alarms Dashboards API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon CloudWatch Alarms Metrics API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Amazon CloudWatch MCP Server
Official AWS Labs CloudWatch MCP server. Runs locally (stdio) on the same host as the LLM client and uses the caller's AWS credentials to expose CloudWatch metrics, PromQL, alar...
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 1
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
publish-and-alarm-on-metric
AGENT SKILLAmazon CloudWatch API pricing
Prices published by Amazon CloudWatch, read 2026-10-28 from aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Get started for free Includes: 5 GB logs data; 10 custom metrics; 1 Million API requests; 3 custom dashboards; 10 alarm metrics; 1, |
| Live Tail | $0.01 per minute Includes: 1,800 minutes/month free |
| Log Centralization additional log copies | additional log copies cost $0.05/GB Includes: first log copy is free |
| Contributor Insights for PrivateLink rule | $9.00 per rule per month Includes: evaluating up to 50,000 endpoints |
| Publishing OpenTelemetry Metrics | $0.50 per GB ingested Includes: includes 15 months of storage |
| PromQL query | $0.01 per million samples scanned Includes: console/dashboard queries free |
| PutMetricData requests | $0.01/M requests |
| Metric centralization additional copies | charged at $0.05/GB copied Includes: first copy to destination account free |
All 16 plans, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- GetMetricData requests: The maximum number of GetMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
- PutMetricData requests: The maximum number of PutMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
- GetMetricStatistics requests: The maximum number of GetMetricStatistics requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
Billed by: gb ingested · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon CloudWatch Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSTerms of Service 1
What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.
Privacy & Data 1
Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.
Compliance 1
Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.
Amazon CloudWatch
6 quoted statements, read from Amazon CloudWatch's own page on 2026-11-09.
COMPLIANCEAI Preferences 1
Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.
Data License 1
How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Amazon CloudWatch Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
Amazon CloudWatch — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALAmazon CloudWatch API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon CloudWatch API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
JSON Schema 251
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Amazon CloudWatch Alarm
JSON SCHEMAAssociateSourceToS3TableIntegrationRequest
JSON SCHEMAAssociateSourceToS3TableIntegrationResponse
JSON SCHEMACancelExportTaskRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelImportTaskResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateAppMonitorRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAppMonitorResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateApplicationRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCanaryRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCanaryResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateComponentRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateDeliveryRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateDeliveryResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateExportTaskRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateExportTaskResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateGroupResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateImportTaskRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateImportTaskResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateLogAnomalyDetectorRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLogGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLogPatternRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLogStreamRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLookupTableRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateMonitorInput
JSON SCHEMACreateResourceMetricsConfigurationInput
JSON SCHEMACreateResourceMetricsConfigurationOutput
JSON SCHEMACreateScheduledQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateScheduledQueryResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateServiceLevelObjectiveInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteAccountPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteAccountPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteAlarmMuteRuleInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteAnomalyDetectorInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteAnomalyDetectorOutput
JSON SCHEMADeleteAppMonitorRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteApplicationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteCanaryRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteComponentRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDataProtectionPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDeliveryDestinationPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDeliveryDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDeliveryRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDeliverySourceRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteGroupResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteIndexPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteIndexPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteInsightRulesInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteIntegrationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteLogPatternRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteLogStreamRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteMetricFilterRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteQueryDefinitionRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteQueryDefinitionResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteResourceMetricsConfigurationInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteResourcePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteResourcePolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteRumMetricsDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteRumMetricsDestinationResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteServiceLevelObjectiveInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteSubscriptionFilterRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteSyslogConfigurationRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteTransformerRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeAccountPoliciesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeAccountPoliciesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeAnomalyDetectorsInput
JSON SCHEMADescribeAnomalyDetectorsOutput
JSON SCHEMADescribeApplicationRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeComponentRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliveriesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliveriesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliveryDestinationsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliveryDestinationsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliverySourcesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDeliverySourcesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeDestinationsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeDestinationsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeExportTasksRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeExportTasksResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeImportTasksRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexPoliciesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexPoliciesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeInsightRulesInput
JSON SCHEMADescribeInsightRulesOutput
JSON SCHEMADescribeLogGroupsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeLogPatternRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeLogStreamsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeLogStreamsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeLookupTablesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeLookupTablesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeMetricFiltersRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeMetricFiltersResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeProblemRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeProblemResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeQueriesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeQueriesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeQueryDefinitionsRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeQueryDefinitionsResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeResourcePoliciesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeResourcePoliciesResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeSubscriptionFiltersRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeSubscriptionFiltersResponse
JSON SCHEMADisableInsightRulesInput
JSON SCHEMAEnableInsightRulesInput
JSON SCHEMAFilterLogEventsRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetAlarmMuteRuleInput
JSON SCHEMAGetAlarmMuteRuleOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetAppMonitorRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetAppMonitorResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetCanaryRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetCanaryResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDataProtectionPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetDataProtectionPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliveryDestinationPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliveryDestinationPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliveryDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliveryDestinationResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliveryRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliverySourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetDeliverySourceResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetGroupResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetInsightRuleReportInput
JSON SCHEMAGetIntegrationResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetLogAnomalyDetectorRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetLogAnomalyDetectorResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetLookupTableResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricDataInput
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricStatisticsInput
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricStreamOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetMonitorInput
JSON SCHEMAGetMonitorOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetOTelEnrichmentInput
JSON SCHEMAGetOTelEnrichmentOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetResourceMetricsConfigurationInput
JSON SCHEMAGetResourceMetricsConfigurationOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetResourcePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetResourcePolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetScheduledQueryResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetServiceLevelObjectiveInput
JSON SCHEMAGetTransformerRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetTransformerResponse
JSON SCHEMAListAlarmMuteRulesInput
JSON SCHEMAListAlarmMuteRulesOutput
JSON SCHEMAListApplicationsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListApplicationsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListComponentsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListComponentsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListIntegrationsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListIntegrationsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListLogAnomalyDetectorsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListLogAnomalyDetectorsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListLogGroupsForQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMAListLogGroupsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListLogPatternsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListLogPatternsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListMetricStreamsInput
JSON SCHEMAListMetricStreamsOutput
JSON SCHEMAListMonitorsInput
JSON SCHEMAListMonitorsOutput
JSON SCHEMAListProblemsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListProblemsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListRumMetricsDestinationsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListRumMetricsDestinationsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListScheduledQueriesRequest
JSON SCHEMAListServiceLevelObjectivesInput
JSON SCHEMAListServiceLevelObjectivesOutput
JSON SCHEMAListSourcesForS3TableIntegrationRequest
JSON SCHEMAListSourcesForS3TableIntegrationResponse
JSON SCHEMAListSyslogConfigurationsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListSyslogConfigurationsResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutAccountPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutAccountPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutAlarmMuteRuleInput
JSON SCHEMAPutAnomalyDetectorInput
JSON SCHEMAPutAnomalyDetectorOutput
JSON SCHEMAPutCompositeAlarmInput
JSON SCHEMAPutDataProtectionPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutDataProtectionPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutDeliveryDestinationPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutDeliveryDestinationPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutDeliveryDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutDeliverySourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutDestinationResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutIndexPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutIndexPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutInsightRuleInput
JSON SCHEMAPutIntegrationRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutIntegrationResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutLogAlarmInput
JSON SCHEMAPutMetricAlarmInput
JSON SCHEMAPutMetricFilterRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutMetricStreamInput
JSON SCHEMAPutQueryDefinitionRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutQueryDefinitionResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutResourcePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutResourcePolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutRumMetricsDestinationRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutRumMetricsDestinationResponse
JSON SCHEMAPutSubscriptionFilterRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutSyslogConfigurationRequest
JSON SCHEMAPutTransformerRequest
JSON SCHEMARumDeleteResourcePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMARumPutResourcePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMARumPutResourcePolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAStartCanaryDryRunRequest
JSON SCHEMAStartMetricStreamsInput
JSON SCHEMAStartOTelEnrichmentInput
JSON SCHEMAStartOTelEnrichmentOutput
JSON SCHEMAStartQueryInput
JSON SCHEMAStartQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMAStopMetricStreamsInput
JSON SCHEMAStopQueryInput
JSON SCHEMAStopQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMATagLogGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMATestMetricFilterRequest
JSON SCHEMATestMetricFilterResponse
JSON SCHEMATestTransformerRequest
JSON SCHEMAUntagLogGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAppMonitorRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateApplicationRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateCanaryRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateComponentRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLogAnomalyDetectorRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLogPatternRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLookupTableRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLookupTableResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateMonitorInput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateOTelEnrichmentInput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateOTelEnrichmentOutput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateProblemRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateProblemResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateResourceMetricsConfigurationInput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateScheduledQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateScheduledQueryResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateServiceLevelObjectiveInput
JSON SCHEMAAlarm
JSON SCHEMADashboard
JSON SCHEMADescribeAlarmsResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDashboardResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricDataResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricStatisticsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListDashboardsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListMetricsResponse
JSON SCHEMAMetric
JSON SCHEMAPutDashboardResponse
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JSON Structure 10
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cloudwatch Alarm Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Dashboard Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Describe Alarms Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Dashboard Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Metric Data Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Metric Statistics Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch List Dashboards Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch List Metrics Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Metric Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Put Dashboard Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll for all 10
Examples 10
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Cloudwatch Alarm Example
EXAMPLECloudwatch Dashboard Example
EXAMPLECloudwatch Metric Example
EXAMPLEScroll for all 10
Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 6
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Amazon CloudWatch API — frequently asked questions
Does Amazon CloudWatch have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 48 APIs from Amazon CloudWatch, including Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API, Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards API and Amazon CloudWatch Metrics API, and 45 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Amazon CloudWatch API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 47 OpenAPI specifications for Amazon CloudWatch, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Amazon CloudWatch API?
Amazon CloudWatch uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Amazon CloudWatch Authentication.
How much does the Amazon CloudWatch API cost?
Amazon CloudWatch publishes its prices; its Free tier plan is Get started for free as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 16 pricing plans for Amazon CloudWatch, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Amazon CloudWatch have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Amazon CloudWatch: Official AWS Labs CloudWatch MCP server. Runs locally (stdio) on the same host as the LLM client and uses the caller's AWS credentials to expose CloudWatch metrics, PromQL, alarms, and Logs Insights f
Is the Amazon CloudWatch API ready for AI agents?
Amazon CloudWatch has a Kin Score of 77.4 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 41.5 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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