Welcome
Amazon CloudWatch enables you to publish, monitor, and manage various metrics,
as well as configure alarm actions based on data from metrics. This guide provides detailed
information about CloudWatch actions, data types, parameters, and errors. For more information
about CloudWatch features, see Amazon CloudWatch
For information about the metrics that other Amazon Web Services products send to CloudWatch, see the Amazon CloudWatch Metrics and Dimensions Reference in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
Use the following links to get started using the CloudWatch Query API:
Actions: An alphabetical list of all CloudWatch actions.
Data Types: An alphabetical list of all CloudWatch data types.
Common Parameters: Parameters that all Query actions can use.
Common Error Types: Client and server errors that all actions can return.
Regions and Endpoints: Supported regions and endpoints for all Amazon Web Services products.
Alternatively, you can use one of the Amazon Web Services SDKs
Developers in the Amazon Web Services developer community also provide their own libraries, which you can find at the following Amazon Web Services developer centers:
Amazon Web Services Mobile Services
Windows and .NET Developer Center
This document was last published on May 22, 2026.
