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Amazon CloudWatch Documentation

Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution that you can start using within minutes. You no longer need to set up, manage, and scale your own monitoring systems and infrastructure.

Amazon CloudWatch

Use CloudWatch to monitor your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.
  1. Provides a conceptual overview of CloudWatch and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.
  2. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  3. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Application Insights in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  4. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Synthetics in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  5. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Application Signals in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  6. Describes all the API operations for Network Flow Monitor in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  7. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Internet Monitor in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  8. Describes all the API operations for Network Synthetic Monitor in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for network monitor and probe operations.
  9. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Observability Access Manager in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  10. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch RUM in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  11. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Evidently in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  12. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Observability Admin in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web service protocols.
  13. Describes the CloudWatch commands in the AWS CLI that you can use to monitor AWS. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
  14. Describes the CloudWatch commands in the AWS CLI that you can use to detect common problems with your applications. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
  15. Describes the CloudWatch Synthetics commands in the AWS CLI that you can use to create and manage canaries. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
  16. Describes the CloudWatch CLI commands that you can use to monitor AWS. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Use CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, AWS CloudTrail, or other sources.
  1. Provides a conceptual overview of CloudWatch Logs and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.
  2. Describes all the API operations for CloudWatch Logs in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  3. Describes the AWS CLI commands that you can use to administer CloudWatch Logs. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.

Amazon CloudWatch Events is now Amazon EventBridge

Use the EventBridge console to manage the default event bus and the rules you created in CloudWatch Events. EventBridge uses the same Events API, so you don't need to update any of your code to use EventBridge.
  1. Provides a conceptual overview of EventBridge and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.
  2. Describes all the API operations for EventBridge in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
  3. Describes the AWS CLI commands that you can use to administer EventBridge. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
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