# Amazon CloudWatch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aws-cloudwatch/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service from AWS that collects metrics, logs, and events from AWS resources, applications, and on-premises services. It enables operators to set alarms, visualize dashboards, automate responses, and troubleshoot performance across cloud workloads. The CloudWatch Query API and AWS SDKs expose programmatic access to metrics, alarms, dashboards, and Logs via AWS Signature Version 4 authenticated HTTPS requests.

## Kin Score — 31.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 55.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (2)

- **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 API** — The Amazon CloudWatch API API from Amazon CloudWatch — 1 operation(s) for amazon cloudwatch api.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Aws Cloudwatch Agentic Access** — 1 operation · 1 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Tags

Monitoring, Observability, Metrics, Logs, Alarms, Cloud

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