Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is an intelligent observability platform providing complete visibility into performance, availability, and security across your entire technology stack. Monitor applications, infrastructure, and workloads with unified metrics, logs, and traces plus AI-powered insights.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon CloudWatch the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon CloudWatch scores 61.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Amazon CloudWatch
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon CloudWatch. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 3
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms API
Operations for creating, describing, and deleting metric alarms
Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards API
Operations for creating, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch dashboards
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics API
Operations for publishing, retrieving, and listing CloudWatch metrics
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Unified Observability
Monitor metrics, logs, and traces in one interface for complete system visibility.
AI-Powered Insights
Detect anomalies and investigate issues using AI-powered CloudWatch Investigations.
Dashboards
Create custom dashboards with pre-built and customizable metric visualizations.
Alarms
Set threshold-based alarms on any metric to trigger automated actions.
Log Insights
Analyze log data with SQL and natural language queries using CloudWatch Logs Insights.
OpenTelemetry Integration
Ingest OpenTelemetry data alongside native AWS metrics and traces.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Cloudwatch Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Amazon CloudWatch API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon CloudWatch API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 11
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Amazon CloudWatch Alarm
JSON SCHEMAAlarm
JSON SCHEMADashboard
JSON SCHEMADescribeAlarmsResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetDashboardResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricDataResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetMetricStatisticsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListDashboardsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListMetricsResponse
JSON SCHEMAMetric
JSON SCHEMAPutDashboardResponse
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 11 ·
JSON Structure 10
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cloudwatch Alarm Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Dashboard Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Describe Alarms Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Dashboard Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Metric Data Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Get Metric Statistics Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch List Dashboards Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch List Metrics Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Metric Structure
JSON STRUCTURECloudwatch Put Dashboard Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 10 ·
Examples 10
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Cloudwatch Alarm Example
EXAMPLECloudwatch Dashboard Example
EXAMPLECloudwatch Metric Example
EXAMPLEScroll within the panel for all 10 ·
Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Infrastructure Monitoring
Monitor EC2, RDS, Lambda, and other AWS resources with built-in metrics.
Application Performance
Track application performance metrics and detect latency or error rate spikes.
Log Analysis
Aggregate and query application logs for troubleshooting and analytics.
Automated Remediation
Trigger auto-scaling, Lambda functions, or SNS alerts based on metric alarms.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Amazon EC2
Monitor EC2 instance performance metrics including CPU, network, and disk.
AWS Lambda
Monitor Lambda invocations, errors, and duration metrics automatically.
Amazon Prometheus
Ingest Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch for unified monitoring.
Grafana
Connect CloudWatch data sources to Grafana dashboards.
AWS X-Ray
Correlate traces from X-Ray with CloudWatch metrics and logs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon CloudWatch — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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