# AWS CloudWatch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cloudwatch/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.

## Kin Score — 51.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 73.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals API** — API for automatic instrumentation and monitoring of application services with service level objectives.
- **Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor API** — API for active network monitoring to identify network issues within AWS or company networks using synthetic probes.
- **AWS CloudWatch Alarms API** — Operations for creating, managing, and querying CloudWatch alarms
- **AWS CloudWatch Anomaly Detection API** — Operations for CloudWatch anomaly detection models
- **AWS CloudWatch Composite Alarms API** — Operations for composite alarms that aggregate multiple alarm states
- **AWS CloudWatch Dashboards API** — Operations for creating and managing CloudWatch dashboards
- **AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams API** — Operations for managing metric streams
- **AWS CloudWatch Metrics API** — Operations for working with CloudWatch metrics and metric data

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cloudwatch Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 25 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Cloudwatch Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Monitoring application health and setting automated alarms**
- **Centralized log aggregation and analysis across AWS services**
- **Tracking end-user experience with real user monitoring**
- **Proactively detecting API and endpoint issues with synthetic monitoring**
- **Managing SLOs across microservices architectures**
- **Monitoring network performance for Direct Connect and VPN**
- **Cross-account observability for multi-account AWS organizations**
- **Anomaly detection on metrics to identify unexpected behavior**

## Tags

Alarms, Dashboards, Logs, Metrics, Monitoring, Observability

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