Methods to create an investigation - Amazon CloudWatch
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Methods to create an investigation

You can create investigations in the following ways:

  • From within many Amazon consoles. For example, you can start an investigation when viewing a CloudWatch metric or alarm in the CloudWatch console, or from a Lambda function's Monitor tab on its properties page.

  • By following a prompt in chat with CloudWatch investigations. You can start by asking questions like "Why is my Lambda function slow today?" or "What's wrong with my database?"

  • By configuring a CloudWatch alarm action to automatically start an investigation when the alarm goes into ALARM state.

After you start an investigation with any of these methods, CloudWatch investigations scans your system to find telemetry that might be relevant to the situation, and also generates hypotheses based on what it finds. CloudWatch investigations surfaces both the telemetry data and the hypotheses. At any time after accepting a hypothesis, you can generate a comprehensive incident report that automatically captures the current investigation findings, timeline events, and recommended actions.