Cloudwatch
AWS CloudWatch monitoring for logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards.
Install
npx skills add itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills --skill cloudwatch -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills1.2k
- Category
- DevOps
- Updated
- 9d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
AWS CloudWatch monitoring for logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards. Use when setting up monitoring, creating alarms, querying logs with Insights, configuring metric filters, building dashboards, or troubleshooting application issues.
AWS CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring and observability for AWS resources and applications. It collects metrics, logs, and events, enabling you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your AWS environment.
Table of Contents
Core Concepts
Metrics
Time-ordered data points published to CloudWatch. Key components:
- Namespace: Container for metrics (e.g.,
AWS/Lambda) - Metric name: Name of the measurement (e.g.,
Invocations) - Dimensions: Name-value pairs for filtering (e.g.,
FunctionName=MyFunc) - Statistics: Aggregations (Sum, Average, Min, Max, SampleCount, pN)
Logs
Log data from AWS services and applications:
- Log groups: Collections of log streams
- Log streams: Sequences of log events from same source
- Log events: Individual log entries with timestamp and message
Alarms
Automated actions based on metric thresholds:
- States: OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA
- Actions: SNS notifications, Lambda functions, Auto Scaling, EC2 actions, Systems Manager OpsItems
- Types: metric (incl. metric math, anomaly detection, Metrics Insights), composite, log (scheduled Logs Insights query evaluated M-out-of-N on query results)
- Mute rules: scheduled windows that mute actions while alarms keep evaluating
Common Patterns
Create a Metric Alarm
AWS CLI:
