cloudwatch - AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Skill
AWS CloudWatch monitoring for logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards with query and troubleshooting support.
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Updated: 2026-06-30Capabilities
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What this skill does
- create metric alarms
- query logs with Insights
- create metric filters
- publish custom metrics
- create CloudWatch dashboards
- list available metrics
- get metric statistics
- describe alarms
- write log events
- filter log events
- set log retention policies
Inputs
- AWS credentials
- AWS region
- Log group names
- Metric namespaces
- SNS topic ARNs
- EC2 instance IDs
- Lambda function names
Outputs
- Metric alarms created
- Log query results returned
- Metric filters created
- Custom metrics published
- Dashboards created
- Metric statistics reports
- Alarm state changes
Requirements
- AWS CLI installed
- boto3 Python library
- AWS IAM permissions for CloudWatch
- AWS account access
