Amazon CloudWatch

wikipedia:Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud#Amazon_CloudWatchis a web service that provides real-time monitoring to Amazon's EC2 customers on their resource utilization such as CPU, disk, network and replica lag for RDS Database replicas.

Basic Commands

Alarms

• aws cloudwatch describe-alarms
• aws cloudwatch delete-alarms --alarm-names myalarm
• aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm

Delete dashboards:

• aws delete-dashboards --dashboard-names mydashboard

Delete insight rules

• aws delete-insight-rules --rule-names <value>

List dashboards

• aws cloudwatch list-dashboards

• aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm

AWS CloudWatch timeline

• Dec 2024 AWS CloudWatch Database Insights
• xxx 2023 Amazon CloudWatch Live Tail
• Nov 2021 Amazon CloudWatch Evidently
• Mar 2021 Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams
• Nov 2019 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
• Oct 2019 Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection
• Nov 2018 AWS CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards at no additional charge
• Oct 2015 AWS CloudWatch Dashboards

Others

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• Amazon CloudWatch Events
• Email, HTTP, Lambda, SQS
• CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess
• aws rds --enable-cloudwatch-logs-exports
• Cloudwatch Synthetics, free tier of 100 canary runs, refreshed every month
• Amazon EventBridge

Insights

• Container Insights
• Lambda Insights
• Contributor Insights
• Application Insights

Related terms

• Grafana plugins: grafana_data_source
• AWS Systems Manager: CloudWatch Dashboard
• CloudFormation Type:: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
• AWS Service Quotas
• AWS RDS Performance Insights
• Azure Monitor
• Amazon Redshift metrics: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/metrics-listing.html
• ALB metrics
• Creating metrics from log events using filters
• Terraform AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon RDS OS Enhanced Monitoring
• Terraform resource: aws_cloudwatch_dashboard
• CloudWatchFullAccess
• IMDSv2: MetadataNoToken

See also

• aws cloudwatch [list-dashboards | create-log-group | put-metric-alarm | describe-alarms | set-alarm-state | list-metrics | get-metric-statistics ], CloudwatchLogsGroup
• AWS monitoring: AWS CloudWatch: Logs, Logs Insights, Events, Alarms, aws cloudwatch, aws logs, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, CloudWatch Dashboard, AWS CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards, Amazon RDS Performance Insights, Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights, CloudwatchLogsGroup, Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, cloudwatch kms key id, CloudWatch agent, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, namespace, Synthetics, Synthetics Canaries, YACE, Prometheus cloudwatch exporter, Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager, Amazon CloudWatch Live Tail

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/announcing-amazon-cloudwatch-metric-streams/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-cloudwatch-anomaly-detection/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/10/cloudwatch-dashboards/