Amazon CloudWatch Getting Started
It's easy to get started with CloudWatch. Jump-start your experience with documentation, blog posts, and tutorials to guide you to best practicesQuick start
Set up CloudWatch quickly with our 10-minute onboarding tutorials.
Infrastructure resources quick start
Collect metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers.
Containerized applications quick start
Set up container monitoring on Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate and Amazon EKS.
Serverless Quick Start
Set up serverless monitoring on AWS Lambda.
One Observability Workshop
Deploy and set up observability for a complex microservices application in this interactive and immersive workshop.
Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray
Infrastructure monitoring
Collect system-level as well as custom metrics and logs from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers.
Send Amazon EC2 logs to CloudWatch
Learn how to send log data to CloudWatch Logs from Amazon EC2.
Programmatically collect CloudWatch metrics
Use the CloudWatch API to collect your CloudWatch metrics programmatically.
Collect and send metrics to CloudWatch
Use the CloudWatch Agent to send custom application health metrics to CloudWatch.
Stream CloudWatch metrics to any destination
Use CloudWatch Metric Streams to send CloudWatch metrics to a destination of your choice.
Containers
Learn how to use CloudWatch to collect and monitor your metrics and logs produced by your containerized applications.
CloudWatch Container Insights for containerized applications
Start aggregating metrics and logs from containerized applications using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights.
Monitor Prometheus metrics for EKS and Kubernetes clusters
Start collecting Prometheus metrics from containerized applications using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights.
Serverless
Use CloudWatch to aggregate metrics and logs from your serverless workloads.
CloudWatch Lambda Insights for serverless applications
Start aggregating metrics and logs from Lambda applications using Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights.
Understanding AWS Lambda behavior using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
Dive into a customer’s journey to rapid innovation using CloudWatch Logs.
CloudWatch with Lambda vended metrics
Learn how to implement CloudWatch for vended metrics from AWS Lambda.
Introducing CloudWatch Lambda Insights
Learn how to use Lambda Insights and start monitoring your Lambda functions in CloudWatch.
Using CloudWatch Lambda Insights
Learn how to use Lambda Insights to improve operational visibility.
Events
Learn how to use CloudWatch Events to schedule event notifications and Lambda functions, and invoke AWS Systems Manager Run Command.
Monitor resource changes and invoke an action with CloudWatch Events
Create CloudWatch Events to monitor and alert you of changes to your resources.
Gather scheduled event notifications for EC2
Learn how to aggregate scheduled event notifications for your EC2 instance using CloudWatch.
Using CloudWatch Events to build serverless pipelines
Learn the benefits of building serverless pipelines using CloudWatch Events.
Schedule AWS Lambda functions
Learn how to use CloudWatch to schedule your AWS Lambda functions.
Relay CloudWatch Events to Amazon EC2 Run Command
Learn to invoke AWS Systems Manager Run Command for your EC2 instances using CloudWatch Events.
Logs analytics
Explore and analyze your logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights.
Supported logs and discovered fields
Review the logs and discovered fields that are supported by Logs Insights.
Query CloudWatch Logs
Learn how to query your logs using the CloudWatch Insights Query Syntax.
Use Live Tail to view and analyze all logs in real time
Use the interactive Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail capability for out-of-the-box detection of application or deployment issues within your native AWS Observability tools with a real-time incoming view of your incoming views.
Anomaly detection and alarms
Isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior with Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection.
Enable CloudWatch Anomaly Detection alarms
Learn how to create anomaly detection alarms against your application metrics.
Set up Amazon SNS for CloudWatch Alarms
Learn how to utilize Simple Notification Service to alert you when your CloudWatch Alarm is triggered.
Create alarms based on Metric Math expressions
Implement CloudWatch alarms via metric math expression-based alarms.
Create composite alarms
Learn how to create composite alarms to combine multiple alarms and reduce alarm noise.
Dashboards
Use CloudWatch dashboards to easily visualize your metrics and logs.
Get started with CloudWatch dashboards
Create and customize your CloudWatch dashboards.
API and CloudFormation support for Amazon CloudWatch dashboards
Start building customized dashboard with the API, CLI, and AWS CloudFormation.
Amazon CloudWatch introduces Automatic Dashboards to monitor all AWS resources
Learn how Automatic Dashboards helps you identify and re-mediate you operational issues.
Amazon CloudWatch dashboard body structure and syntax
Dive deep into the background and implementation of dashboards.
Custom metrics
Enable custom metrics and shorten mean-time-to-resolution.
Publish custom metrics in CloudWatch
Learn how to publish metrics to CloudWatch using the PutMetricData API.
Use the CloudWatch CLI or API to publish metrics
Get started publishing metrics to CloudWatch the CLI or API.
Publish custom metrics using the CloudWatch agent
Learn how to use the CloudWatch agent to publish application metrics using collectd.
Application monitoring
Deliver real-time data and insights into the performance of applications and quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot application issues.
Get started with CloudWatch Contributor Insights
Analyze time-series data to see top contributors influencing system performance.
Get started with CloudWatch ServiceLens
Visualize and analyze application health, performance, and availability in one place.
Get started with CloudWatch Synthetics
Monitor your application endpoints 24x7 with synthetic traffic.
Network monitoring
Gain full visibility into your network performance & health and monitor internet availability and latency
Get started with CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Visualize the impact of internet issues on your application's performance in near real time.
Metrics analytics
Explore and analyze your metrics with CloudWatch Metrics Insights
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Get more out of your stack with Amazon CloudWatch learning resources.
Documentation
Use the documentation to implement your desired CloudWatch solutions.
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