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aws cloudwatch — Monitor AWS resources to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performa

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Problem

How to use the aws cloudwatch command: Monitor AWS resources to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/>.

Solution

aws cloudwatch — Monitor AWS resources to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/>.

List dashboards for your account:

aws cloudwatch list-dashboards

Display details for the specified dashboard:

aws cloudwatch get-dashboard --dashboard-name {{dashboard_name}}

List metrics:

aws cloudwatch list-metrics

List alarms:

aws cloudwatch describe-alarms

Create or update an alarm and associate it with a metric:

aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name {{alarm_name}} --evaluation-periods {{evaluation_periods}} --comparison-operator {{comparison_operator}}

Delete the specified alarms:

aws cloudwatch delete-alarms --alarm-names {{alarm_names}}

Delete the specified dashboards:

aws cloudwatch delete-dashboards --dashboard-names {{dashboard_names}}

Code Snippets

List dashboards for your account

aws cloudwatch list-dashboards

Display details for the specified dashboard

aws cloudwatch get-dashboard --dashboard-name {{dashboard_name}}

List metrics

aws cloudwatch list-metrics

List alarms

aws cloudwatch describe-alarms

Create or update an alarm and associate it with a metric

aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name {{alarm_name}} --evaluation-periods {{evaluation_periods}} --comparison-operator {{comparison_operator}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/aws cloudwatch

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