# Using CloudWatch with MediaConvert
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You can use Amazon CloudWatch to gather metrics about your AWS Elemental MediaConvert jobs. Here are some examples of what you can do with CloudWatch:

**Get details about your requests, queues, jobs, and outputs**  
Metrics are grouped according to dimension, including Operation metrics, Queue metrics, and Job metrics.  
+ *Operation metrics* include any errors that occur when you interact with MediaConvert.
+ *Queue metrics* include details about all of your jobs in a given queue, like the total number of jobs, or the total duration of your outputs.
+ *Job metrics* include details about your outputs that you can use to identify trends, statistics, or potential issues with your video workflow.
For more information, see [List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics](metrics.md).

**Create CloudWatch dashboards and alarms**  
You can create CloudWatch dashboards to track things for a job queue. For example, you can track transcoding jobs that have completed or that have errors. You can also use metrics such as `StandbyTime` to create alarms to detect if there is a large backlog for a job queue. For more information, see [Creating dashboards and alarms for AWS Elemental MediaConvert using Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.amazonaws.cn/blogs/media/creating-dashboards-and-alarms-for-aws-elemental-mediaconvert-using-amazon-cloudwatch/).

**Topics**
+ [List of MediaConvert CloudWatch metrics](metrics.md)