# Amazon CloudWatch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudwatch/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 55.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 55.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 71.4 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 26.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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

## MCP servers (1)

- **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...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Cloudwatch Agentic Access** — 10 operations

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Cloudwatch Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Cloudwatch Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Cloudwatch Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Cloudwatch Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Use cases (4)

- **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.

## Tags

CloudWatch, Monitoring, Observability, Metrics, Logs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudwatch/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.