Document history
The following table describes important changes for each release of the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide, beginning in June 2018. To receive notifications about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Application Signals supports request-based SLOs | Application Signals adds support for request-based service level objects (SLOs). For more information, see Service level objectives (SLOs). | September 6, 2024 |
Internet Monitor refreshed dashboard and latency improvement suggestions | Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor has launched an updated console experience, including new features for visualizing configuration changes that can help you reduce latency for your application. | August 12, 2024 |
Application Signals previewing support for .NET applications | CloudWatch Application Signals has added support for .NET applications | August 5, 2024 |
New CloudWatch Application Insights service linked role permission added | Allows CloudWatch Application Insights to enable and disable termination protection on Amazon CloudFormation stacks. | July 25, 2024 |
CloudWatch Metrics Insights support for natural language query generation is generally available. | CloudWatch Metrics Insights supports natural language query to generate and update queries. For more information, see Use natural language to generate and update CloudWatch Metric Insights queries. | June 10, 2024 |
CloudWatch Application Signals is generally available | CloudWatch Application Signals is now generally available. Use Application Signals to instrument your applications on Amazon so that you can monitor current application health, create service level objectives (SLOs), and track long-term application performance against your business objectives. For more information, see Application Signals. | June 10, 2024 |
CloudWatch added a CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess policy to add read only actions and resources available in the CloudWatch console for Application Signals. | June 7, 2024 | |
CloudWatch added a CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess policy to add actions and resources available in the CloudWatch console for Application Signals. | June 7, 2024 | |
CloudTrail now captures API activities related to CloudWatch data plane operations. | CloudTrail now logs events in CloudTrail for GetMetricData and GetMetricWidgetImage API activities. | June 6, 2024 |
The Application Signals preview release has added default groupings in the service map for canaries, RUM clients, and Amazon service dependencies of the same type. This change reduces the number of icons in the service map default view to make it easier to view and navigate. | May 21, 2024 | |
CloudWatch changed the scope of a permission in
CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess. The scope of the policy added the
| May 17, 2024 | |
CloudWatch changed the scope of a permission in CloudWatchFullAccessV2.
The scope of the policy added the | May 17, 2024 | |
Lambda Insights supports Amazon GovCloud (US-East) and Amazon GovCloud (US-West) | CloudWatch Lambda Insights has added support for the Amazon GovCloud (US-East) and Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | April 29, 2024 |
CloudWatch cross-account observability supports resource filters | You can now create filters to specify which metric namespaces and log groups are shared from the source account to the monitoring account, when you create the link between the accounts. | April 26, 2024 |
The Application Signals preview release has added three features. Application Signals now supports Python applications. It offers a simpler enablement process for applications on Amazon EKS architectures. And it includes new configurations that you can use to manage the cardinality of metrics that are collected. | April 26, 2024 | |
You can now use CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS collect Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) metrics from Amazon EKS clusters. | April 23, 2024 | |
CloudWatch updated the CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy
policy. The scoping of the | April 18, 2024 | |
Internet Monitor provides a global internet weather map to authenticated Amazon customers | Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now displays a global internet weather map that is available in the console to all authenticated Amazon customers. To view the map, in the Amazon CloudWatch console, navigate to Internet Monitor. | April 16, 2024 |
You can now use CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS collect Amazon Neuron metrics from Amazon EKS clusters. | April 16, 2024 | |
CloudWatch Application Signals adds a Service overview tab and more metrics to aid in diagnostics | A new Service overview tab displays an overview of your service, including number of operations, dependencies, synthetics, and client pages. The tab shows key metrics for your entire service, and top operations and dependencies. You can also now view X-Ray traces that are correlated with issues including faults, errors, and latency problems. | April 16, 2024 |
CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS adds support for Windows | You can now use CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS collect metrics from Windows worker nodes on Amazon EKS clusters. | April 10, 2024 |
CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy IAM policy updated | CloudWatch changed the scope of a permission in
CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy. The scope of the
| April 8, 2024 |
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now supports cross-account observability | You can now use Internet Monitor cross-account observability to monitor your applications that span multiple Amazon Web Services accounts within a single Amazon Web Services Region. | March 29, 2024 |
New service linked role and IAM policy for CloudWatch Network Monitor | CloudWatch added a new service-linked role, called AWSServiceRoleForNetworkMonitor. CloudWatch added this new service-linked role to allow you to create monitors to fetch network metrics between source subnets and destination IP addresses. The new CloudWatchNetworkMonitorServiceRolePolicy IAM policy is attached to this role, and the policy grants permission to CloudWatch to fetch network metrics on your behalf. | December 22, 2023 |
CloudWatch released a new feature, Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor. This is a new active network monitoring service that identifies if a network issues exists within the Amazon network or your own company network. | December 22, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added existing read-only permissions for CloudWatch Synthetics, X-Ray, and CloudWatch RUM
and new read-only permissions for CloudWatch Application Signals
toCloudWatchReadOnlyAccess so that users with this policy can
triage and diagnose service health issues as reported by CloudWatch Application Signals. The
| December 5, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added existing permissions to CloudWatchFullAccessV2 for CloudWatch Synthetics, X-Ray, and CloudWatch RUM, and added new permissions for CloudWatch Application Signals so that users with this policy can fully manage Application Signals to triage and diagnose issues with service health. | December 5, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added a new service-linked role, called AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals. CloudWatch added this new service-linked role to allow CloudWatch Application Signals to collect CloudWatch Logs data, X-Ray trace data, CloudWatch metrics data, and tagging data from applications that you have enabled for CloudWatch Application Signals. The new CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy IAM policy is attached to this role, and the policy grants permission to CloudWatch Application Signals to collect monitoring and tagging data from other relevant Amazon services. | November 30, 2023 | |
CloudWatch launches Preview release of Application Signals | CloudWatch Application Signals is in Preview. Use Application Signals to instrument your applications on Amazon so that you can monitor current application health, create service level objectives (SLOs), and track long-term application performance against your business objectives. For more information, see Application Signals. | November 30, 2023 |
CloudWatch adds support for querying other data sources | You can use CloudWatch to query, visualize, and create alarms for metrics from other data sources For more information, see Querying metrics from other data sources. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch Metrics Insights supports natural language query generation | CloudWatch Metrics Insights supports natural language query to generate and update queries. For more information, see Use natural language to generate and update CloudWatch Metric Insights queries. | November 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch releases Container Insights with enhanced observability for Amazon EKS | CloudWatch released a new version of Container Insights. This version supports enhanced observability for Amazon EKS clusters and can collect more detailed metrics from clusters running Amazon EKS. After installation, it automatically collects detailed infrastructure telemetry and container logs for your Amazon EKS clusters. You can then use curated, immediately usable dashboards to drill down into application and infrastructure telemetry. | November 6, 2023 |
CloudWatch metric streams now provides a quick partner setup option, which you can use to quickly set up a metric stream to some third-party providers. | October 17, 2023 | |
CloudWatch Synthetics now provides alarm recommendations for metrics from other Amazon services. These recommendations can help you identify the metrics that you should set alarms for to follow best practices for monitoring these services. | October 16, 2023 | |
CloudWatch Synthetics releases runtime syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.0 | CloudWatch Synthetics released runtime | September 26, 2023 |
Adds Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights support for cross-account applications | You can now share CloudWatch Application Insights applications across account boundaries. | September 26, 2023 |
CloudWatch added a new service-linked role, called AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchMetrics_DbPerfInsights. CloudWatch added this new service-linked role to allow CloudWatch to fetch Performance Insights metrics for alarming, anomaly detection, and snapshotting. The new AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchMetrics_DbPerfInsightsServiceRolePolicy IAM policy is attached to this role, and the policy grants permission to CloudWatch to fetch Performance Insights metrics on your behalf. | September 20, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added a new metric math function, | September 20, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added the | September 14, 2023 | |
The CloudWatch agent supports AL2023. | August 8, 2023 | |
CloudWatch added a new policy CloudWatchFullAccessV2. This policy grants full access to CloudWatch actions and resources while better scoping the permissions granted to other services such as Amazon SNS and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. | August 1, 2023 | |
Updated service linked role for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor – update to an existing policy | Adds new permissions, | July 25, 2023 |
Added support for Network Load Balancer resources in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor | Adds support for creating a monitor in Internet Monitor with specific Network Load Balancer resources, to provide more granular levels of observability for your application. | July 25, 2023 |
Dashboard variables feature | CloudWatch released dashboard variables, which you can use to create flexible dashboards that can quickly display different contents depending on how you set one input field within the dashboard. For example, you can create a dashboard that can quickly switch between different Lambda functions or Amazon EC2 instance IDs, or one that can switch to different Amazon Regions. For more information, see Create flexible dashboards with dashboard variables. | June 28, 2023 |
Internet Monitor now supports customizing the threshold for health events | Internet Monitor added the ability to customize the threshold for when a global performance score or availability score triggers a heath event. For more information, see Tracking real-time performance and availability in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. | June 26, 2023 |
Internet Monitor added seven new Amazon Web Services Regions and now supports all commercial Regions. | June 19, 2023 | |
New Lambda Insights extension versions | CloudWatch added the 1.0.229.0 version of the Lambda Insights extension for both x86-64 platforms and ARM64 platforms. For more information, see Available versions of the Lambda Insights extension. | June 12, 2023 |
CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess policy updated | CloudWatch added permissions to CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess. The
| June 6, 2023 |
CloudWatch RUM adds support for custom metrics | You can use CloudWatch RUM app monitors to create custom metrics and send them to CloudWatch and CloudWatch Evidently. This feature includes an update to the AmazonCloudWatchRUMServiceRolePolicy managed IAM policy. In that policy, a condition key was changed so that CloudWatch RUM can send custom metrics to custom metric namespaces. | February 9, 2023 |
New and updated managed polices for CloudWatch | To support CloudWatch cross-account observability, the | February 7, 2023 |
CloudWatch Application Insights service-linked role policy updates — update to an existing policy. | CloudWatch Application Insights updated an existing Amazon service-linked role policy. | December 19, 2022 |
You can display CloudWatch Application Insights detected problems for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS on your Container Insights dashboard. | November 17, 2021 | |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring for SAP HANA databases. | You can monitor SAP HANA databases with Application Insights. | November 15, 2021 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights support for monitoring all resources in an account. | You can onboard and monitor all resources in an account. | September 15, 2021 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights support for Amazon FSx. | You can monitor metrics retrieved from Amazon FSx. | August 31, 2021 |
SDK Metrics is no longer supported. | CloudWatch SDK Metrics is no longer supported. | August 25, 2021 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights support for setting up container monitoring. | You can monitor containers using best practices with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. | May 18, 2021 |
Metric streams is generally available | You can use metric streams to continually stream CloudWatch metrics to a destination of your choice. For more information, see Metric streams in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | March 31, 2021 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring for Oracle databases on Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2. | You can monitor metrics and logs retrieved from Oracle with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. | January 16, 2021 |
Lambda Insights is generally available | CloudWatch Lambda Insights is a monitoring and troubleshooting solution for serverless applications running on Amazon Lambda. For more information, see Using Lambda Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | December 3, 2020 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring for Prometheus JMX exporter metrics. | You can monitor metrics retrieved from Prometheus JMX exporter with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. | November 20, 2020 |
CloudWatch Synthetics releases new runtime version | CloudWatch Synthetics has released a new runtime version. For more information, see Canary Runtime Versions in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | September 11, 2020 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring for Postgre SQL on Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2. | You can monitor applications built with PostgreSQL running on Amazon RDS or Amazon EC2. | September 11, 2020 |
CloudWatch supports dashboard sharing | You can now share CloudWatch dashboards with people outside of your organization and Amazon account. For more information, see Sharing CloudWatch Dashboards in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | September 10, 2020 |
You can use the documentation tutorial to help you to set up monitors for .NET applications using SQL Server on the backend with CloudWatch Application Insights. | August 19, 2020 | |
Amazon CloudFormation support for Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights applications. | You can add CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring, including key metrics and telemetry, to your application, database, and web server, directly from Amazon CloudFormation templates. | July 30, 2020 |
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights monitoring for Aurora for MySQL database clusters. | You can monitor Aurora for MySQL database clusters (RDS Aurora) with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. | July 2, 2020 |
CloudWatch Contributor Insights general availability | CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available. It enables you to analyze log data and create time series that display contributor data. You can see metrics about the top-N contributors, the total number of unique contributors, and their usage. For more information, see Using Contributor Insights to Analyze High-Cardinality Data in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | April 2, 2020 |
CloudWatch Synthetics public preview | CloudWatch Synthetics is now in public preview. It enables you to create canaries to monitor your endpoints and APIs. For more information, see Using Canaries in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 25, 2019 |
CloudWatch Contributor Insights public preview | CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now in public preview. It enables you to analyze log data and create time series that display contributor data. You can see metrics about the top-N contributors, the total number of unique contributors, and their usage. For more information, see Using Contributor Insights to Analyze High-Cardinality Data in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 25, 2019 |
CloudWatch launches ServiceLens feature | ServiceLens ehances the observability of your services and applications by enabling you to integrate traces, metrics, logs, and alarms into one place. ServiceLens integrates CloudWatch with Amazon X-Ray to provide an end-to-end view of your application. | November 21, 2019 |
Use CloudWatch to proactively manage your Amazon service quotas | You can use CloudWatch to proactively manage your Amazon service quotas. CloudWatch usage metrics provide visibility into your account's usage of resources and API operations. For more information, see Service Quotas Integration and Usage Metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 19, 2019 |
CloudWatch sends events when alarms change state | CloudWatch now sends an event to Amazon EventBridge when any CloudWatch alarm changes state. For more information, see Alarm Events and EventBridge in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | October 8, 2019 |
Container Insights | CloudWatch Container Insights is now generally available. It enables you to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices. For more information, see Using Container Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | August 30, 2019 |
Updates for Container Insights preview metrics on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes | The Container Insights on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes public preview has been updated. InstanceId is now included as a dimension to the cluster EC2 instances. This allows alarms that have been created on these metrics to trigger the following EC2 actions: Stop, Terminate, Reboot, or Recover. Additionally, pod and service metrics are now reported by Kubernetes namespace to simplify the monitoring and alarming on metrics by namespace. | August 19, 2019 |
Updates for Amazon Systems Manager OpsCenter integration | Updates on how CloudWatch Application Insights integrates with Systems Manager OpsCenter. | August 7, 2019 |
CloudWatch usage metrics | CloudWatch usage metrics help you track the usage of your CloudWatch resources and stay within your service limits. For more information, see https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-Usage-Metrics.html. | August 6, 2019 |
CloudWatch Container Insights public preview | CloudWatch Container Insights is now in public preview. It enables you to collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices. For more information, see Using Container Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | July 9, 2019 |
CloudWatch Anomaly Detection public preview | CloudWatch anomaly detection is now in public preview. CloudWatch applies machine-learning algorithms to a metric's past data to create a model of the metric's expected values. You can use this model for visualization and for setting alarms. For more information, see Using CloudWatch Anomaly Detection in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | July 9, 2019 |
CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server | CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server facilitates observability for .NET and SQL Server applications. It can help you set up the best monitors for your application resources to continuously analyze data for signs of problems with your applications. | June 21, 2019 |
CloudWatch agent section re-organized | The CloudWatch agent documentation has been rewritten to improve clarity, especially for customers using the command line to install and configure the agent. For more information, see Collecting Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers with the CloudWatch Agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | March 28, 2019 |
SEARCH function added to metric math expressions | You can now use a SEARCH function in metric math expressions. This enables you to create dashboards that update automatically as new resources are created that match the search query. For more information, see Using Search Expressions in Graphs in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | March 21, 2019 |
Amazon SDK Metrics for Enterprise Support | SDK Metrics helps you assess the health of your Amazon services and diagnose latency caused by reaching your account usage limits or by a service outage. For more information, see Monitor Applications Using Amazon SDK Metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | December 11, 2018 |
Alarms on math expressions | CloudWatch supports creating alarms based on metric math expressions. For more information, see Alarms on Math Expressions in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 20, 2018 |
New CloudWatch console home page | Amazon has created a new home page in the CloudWatch console, which automatically displays key metrics and alarms for all the Amazon services you are using. For more information, see Getting Started with Amazon CloudWatch in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 19, 2018 |
Amazon CloudFormation templates for the CloudWatch Agent | Amazon has uploaded Amazon CloudFormation templates that you can use to install and update the CloudWatch agent. For more information, see Install the CloudWatch Agent on New Instances Using Amazon CloudFormation in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | November 9, 2018 |
Enhancements to the CloudWatch Agent | The CloudWatch agent has been updated to work with both the StatsD and collectd protocols. It also has improved cross-account support. For more information, see Retrieve Custom Metrics with StatsD, Retrieve Custom Metrics with collectd, and Sending Metrics and Logs to a Different Amazon Account in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | September 28, 2018 |
Support for Amazon VPC endpoints | You can now establish a private connection between your VPC and CloudWatch. For more information, see Using CloudWatch with Interface VPC Endpoints in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide. | June 28, 2018 |
The following table describes important changes to the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide before June 2018.
| Change | Description | Release date |
|---|---|---|
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Metric math |
You can now perform math expressions on CloudWatch metrics, producing new time series that you can add to graphs on your dashboard. For more information, see Using math expressions with CloudWatch metrics. |
April 4, 2018 |
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"M out of N" alarms |
You can now configure an alarm to trigger based on "M out of N" datapoints in any alarm evaluation interval. For more information, see Evaluating an alarm. |
December 8, 2017 |
|
CloudWatch agent |
A new unified CloudWatch agent was released. You can use the unified multi-platform agent to collect custom both system metrics and log files from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises servers. The new agent supports both Windows and Linux and enables customization of metrics collected, including sub-resource metrics such as per-CPU core. For more information, see Collect metrics, logs, and traces with the CloudWatch agent. |
September 7, 2017 |
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NAT gateway metrics |
Added metrics for Amazon VPC NAT gateway. |
September 7, 2017 |
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High-resolution metrics |
You can now optionally set up custom metrics as high-resolution metrics, with a granularity of as low as one second. For more information, see High-resolution metrics. |
July 26, 2017 |
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Dashboard APIs |
You can now create, modify, and delete dashboards using APIs and the Amazon CLI. For more information, see Creating a CloudWatch dashboard. |
July 6, 2017 |
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Amazon Direct Connect metrics |
Added metrics for Amazon Direct Connect. |
June 29, 2017 |
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Amazon VPC VPN metrics |
Added metrics for Amazon VPC VPN. |
May 15, 2017 |
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AppStream 2.0 metrics |
Added metrics for AppStream 2.0. |
March 8, 2017 |
|
CloudWatch console color picker |
You can now choose the color for each metric on your dashboard widgets. For more information, see Editing a graph on a CloudWatch dashboard . |
February 27, 2017 |
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Alarms on dashboards |
Alarms can now be added to dashboards. For more information, see Adding an alarm to a CloudWatch dashboard. |
February 15, 2017 |
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Added metrics for Amazon Polly |
Added metrics for Amazon Polly. |
December 1, 2016 |
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Added metrics for Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink |
Added metrics for Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. |
December 1, 2016 |
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Added support for percentile statistics |
You can specify any percentile, using up to two decimal places (for example, p95.45). For more information, see Percentiles. |
November 17, 2016 |
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Added metrics for Amazon Simple Email Service |
Added metrics for Amazon Simple Email Service. |
November 2, 2016 |
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Updated metrics retention |
Amazon CloudWatch now retains metrics data for 15 months instead of 14 days. |
November 1, 2016 |
|
Updated metrics console interface |
The CloudWatch console is updated with improvements to existing functionality and new functionality. |
November 1, 2016 |
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Added metrics for Amazon Elastic Transcoder |
Added metrics for Amazon Elastic Transcoder. |
September 20, 2016 |
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Added metrics for Amazon API Gateway |
Added metrics for Amazon API Gateway. |
September 9, 2016 |
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Added metrics for Amazon Key Management Service |
Added metrics for Amazon Key Management Service. |
September 9, 2016 |
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Added metrics for the new Application Load Balancers supported by Elastic Load Balancing |
Added metrics for Application Load Balancers. |
August 11, 2016 |
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Added new NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut metrics for Amazon EC2 |
Added new NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut metrics for Amazon EC2. |
March 23, 2016 |
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Added new metrics for Amazon EC2 Spot fleet |
Added new metrics for Amazon EC2 Spot fleet. |
March 21, 2016 |
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Added new CloudWatch Logs metrics |
Added new CloudWatch Logs metrics. |
March 10, 2016 |
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Added Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon WAF metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon WAF metrics and dimensions. |
October 14, 2015 |
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Added support for CloudWatch dashboards |
Dashboards are customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those that are spread out across different Regions. For more information, see Using Amazon CloudWatch dashboards. |
October 8, 2015 |
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Added Amazon Lambda metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Lambda metrics and dimensions. |
September 4, 2015 |
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Added Amazon Elastic Container Service metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Elastic Container Service metrics and dimensions. |
August 17, 2015 |
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Added Amazon Simple Storage Service metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Simple Storage Service metrics and dimensions. |
July 26, 2015 |
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New feature: Reboot alarm action |
Added the reboot alarm action and new IAM role for use with alarm actions. For more information, see Create alarms to stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance. |
July 23, 2015 |
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Added Amazon WorkSpaces metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon WorkSpaces metrics and dimensions. |
April 30, 2015 |
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Added Amazon Machine Learning metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Machine Learning metrics and dimensions. |
April 9, 2015 |
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New feature: Amazon EC2 instance recovery alarm actions |
Updated alarm actions to include new EC2 instance recovery action. For more information, see Create alarms to stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance. |
March 12, 2015 |
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Added Amazon CloudFront and Amazon CloudSearch metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon CloudFront and Amazon CloudSearch metrics and dimensions. |
March 6, 2015 |
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Added Amazon Simple Workflow Service metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Simple Workflow Service metrics and dimensions. |
May 9, 2014 |
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Updated guide to add support for Amazon CloudTrail |
Added a new topic to explain how you can use Amazon CloudTrail to log activity in Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, see Logging Amazon CloudWatch API and console operations with Amazon CloudTrail. |
April 30, 2014 |
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Updated guide to use the new Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) |
The Amazon CLI is a cross-service CLI with a simplified installation, unified configuration, and consistent command line syntax. The Amazon CLI is supported on Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac. The CLI examples in this guide have been updated to use the new Amazon CLI. For information about how to install and configure the new Amazon CLI, see Getting Set Up with the Amazon CLI Interface in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide. |
February 21, 2014 |
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Added Amazon Redshift and Amazon OpsWorks metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Redshift and Amazon OpsWorks metrics and dimensions. |
July 16, 2013 |
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Added Amazon Route 53 metrics and dimensions |
Added Amazon Route 53 metrics and dimensions. |
June 26, 2013 |
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New feature: Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Actions |
Added a new section to document Amazon CloudWatch alarm actions, which you can use to stop or terminate an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance. For more information, see Create alarms to stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an EC2 instance. |
January 8, 2013 |
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Updated EBS metrics |
Updated the EBS metrics to include two new metrics for Provisioned IOPS volumes. |
November 20, 2012 |
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New billing alerts |
You can now monitor your Amazon charges using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and create alarms to notify you when you have exceeded the specified threshold. For more information, see Create a billing alarm to monitor your estimated Amazon charges. |
May 10, 2012 |
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New metrics |
You can now access six new Elastic Load Balancing metrics that provide counts of various HTTP response codes. |
October 19, 2011 |
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New feature |
You can now access metrics from Amazon EMR. |
June 30, 2011 |
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New feature |
You can now access metrics from Amazon Simple Notification Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service. |
July 14, 2011 |
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New Feature |
Added information about using the |
May 10, 2011 |
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Updated metrics retention |
Amazon CloudWatch now retains the history of an alarm for two weeks rather than six weeks. With this change, the retention period for alarms matches the retention period for metrics data. |
April 7, 2011 |
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New feature |
Added ability to send Amazon Simple Notification Service or Auto Scaling notifications when a metric has crossed a threshold. For more information, see Alarms. |
December 2, 2010 |
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New feature |
A number of CloudWatch actions now include the MaxRecords and NextToken parameters, which enable you to control pages of results to display. |
December 2, 2010 |
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New feature |
This service now integrates with Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM). |
December 2, 2010 |