# Data retrieval APIs for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics provides the following APIs for data retrieval.


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| Actions | Description | Access level | 
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| <a name="synthetics-DescribeCanaries"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeCanaries.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeCanaries.html) | List information of all canaries | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-DescribeCanariesLastRun"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeCanariesLastRun.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeCanariesLastRun.html) | List information about the last test run associated with all canaries | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-DescribeRuntimeVersions"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeRuntimeVersions.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeRuntimeVersions.html) | List information about Synthetics canary runtime versions | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-GetCanary"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetCanary.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetCanary.html) | View the details of a canary | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-GetCanaryRuns"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetCanaryRuns.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetCanaryRuns.html) | List information about all the test runs associated with a canary | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-GetGroup"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetGroup.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_GetGroup.html) | View the details of a group | Read | 
| <a name="synthetics-ListAssociatedGroups"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListAssociatedGroups.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListAssociatedGroups.html) | List information about the associated groups of a canary | List | 
| <a name="synthetics-ListGroupResources"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListGroupResources.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListGroupResources.html) | List information about canaries in a group | List | 
| <a name="synthetics-ListGroups"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListGroups.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListGroups.html) | List information of all groups | List | 
| <a name="synthetics-ListTagsForResource"></a>[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListTagsForResource.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSynthetics/latest/APIReference/API_ListTagsForResource.html) | List all tags and values associated with a resource | Read |