AWS CloudWatch

12 CloudFormation resource types available for CloudWatch.

Alarm

AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm

The AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm type specifies an alarm and associates it with the specified metric or metric math expression. When this operation creates an alarm, the alarm state is immediately set

AlarmMuteRule

AWS::CloudWatch::AlarmMuteRule

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::AlarmMuteRule that allows defining a rule and targeting alarms to mute their actions during the specified window.

AnomalyDetector

AWS::CloudWatch::AnomalyDetector

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::AnomalyDetector

CompositeAlarm

AWS::CloudWatch::CompositeAlarm

The AWS::CloudWatch::CompositeAlarm type specifies an alarm which aggregates the states of other Alarms (Metric or Composite Alarms) as defined by the AlarmRule expression

Dashboard

AWS::CloudWatch::Dashboard

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::Dashboard

InsightRule

AWS::CloudWatch::InsightRule

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::InsightRule. Creates a Contributor Insights rule that analyzes log data to identify top contributors and usage patterns.

Integration

AWS::CloudWatch::Integration

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::Integration. Manages a CloudWatch (Amazon CloudWatch Observability / Omni) account-scoped integration. V1 supports AWS_CONFIG_SLREC, AWS_INTEGRATION, and

LogAlarm

AWS::CloudWatch::LogAlarm

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::LogAlarm. A LogAlarm evaluates scheduled query results from CloudWatch Logs and triggers actions when thresholds are breached.

MetricStream

AWS::CloudWatch::MetricStream

Resource Type definition for Metric Stream

OTelEnrichment

AWS::CloudWatch::OTelEnrichment

AWS::CloudWatch::OTelEnrichment enables OTel metric enrichment in CloudWatch, allowing CloudWatch vended metrics to be available for PromQL querying enriched with AWS resource tags and metadata.

ResourceMetricsConfiguration

AWS::CloudWatch::ResourceMetricsConfiguration

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::ResourceMetricsConfiguration. Manages the detailed monitoring metric selections for an AWS resource, identified by the ARN of the resource being monitored

View

AWS::CloudWatch::View

Resource Type definition for AWS::CloudWatch::View. A view is a named, reusable SQL query that can be referenced from CloudWatch telemetry queries. View names must be unique within the account and reg

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Quick Stats

Resource Types: 12
Service Namespace: AWS::CloudWatch::*