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.
- Describes the CloudWatch commands in the AWS CLI that you can use to monitor AWS. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Describes the AWS CLI commands that you can use to administer EventBridge. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.
PrivacySite termsCookie preferences
© 2025, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.