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

Delete alarm

• aws cloudwatch delete-alarms --alarm-names myalarm

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 timeline

• Nov 2021 Amazon CloudWatch Evidently
• Nov 2018 AWS CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards at no additional charge

Others

• Amazon CloudWatch Logs
• Amazon CloudWatch Events
• Email, HTTP, Lambda, SQS

Insights

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

• Cloudwatch Synthetics, free tier of 100 canary runs, refreshed every month
• Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams
• Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection (2019)

• Amazon EventBridge

Related terms

• Grafana
• 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

See also

• AWS: Insights: RDS Performance Insights, Container Insights, Lambda Insights, Application Insights, CloudTrail Insights, Logs Insights
• Type:, AWS::CloudFormation::Stack, AWS::S3::Bucket, AWS::SNS::Topic, AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm, AWS::CloudWatch::AnomalyDetector, AWS::SNS::Topic
• 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
• Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Grafana, AWS Proton

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