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Amazon CloudWatch

Metrics, metric statistics, composite alarms, and log queries across AWS regions via the Amazon CloudWatch API.

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About

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, and IT managers running workloads on Amazon Web Services. It collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events across compute, storage, and networking resources. The CloudWatch API provides metric retrieval with math expressions, alarm state inspections, and log queries.

Through Fibric, an operator monitors AWS infrastructure alarms and metric deviations, proposing alarm threshold updates or automated notification routing for approval.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Amazon CloudWatch and what it could propose, based on the vendor's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Metric data points and metric math aggregations through the GetMetricData API action
  • Metric statistics over defined periods using the GetMetricStatistics API action
  • Metric alarms, composite alarms, and alarm states via the DescribeAlarms API action
  • Metric namespaces, dimension filters, and available metrics through ListMetrics
  • Log query results and field extractions via CloudWatch Logs Insights StartQuery and GetQueryResults

Proposed actions

  • Target capability: propose updating metric alarm thresholds or evaluation periods via PutMetricAlarm
  • Target capability: propose enabling or disabling alarm actions using EnableAlarmActions or DisableAlarmActions
  • Target capability: propose setting an alarm state for testing via SetAlarmState
  • Target capability: propose creating or modifying a composite alarm expression

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Spot cost anomalies in compute utilization

    Analyze EC2 and container CPU utilization metrics over 14-day rolling windows, proposing instance resizing actions when workloads remain underutilized.

    With Cost Anomaly, Idle Resources

  • Correlate alarm storms during network degradations

    When multiple CloudWatch metric alarms trigger simultaneously, aggregate error logs across services and propose incident triage packages for on-call engineers.

    With Uptime Response, Alert Noise

  • Track API gateway error budget burn

    Query 4xx and 5xx metric counts across API Gateway stages to calculate error budget burn rates, proposing change freezes before availability targets breach.

    With Error Budget, Change Freeze

Requirements

  • An active AWS account with CloudWatch metrics reporting in target regions
  • An IAM policy granting cloudwatch:GetMetricData, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, and related read permissions
  • Sufficient service quotas for concurrent CloudWatch metric and log queries
Authentication
AWS Identity and Access Management credentials or IAM role assumption signed with Signature Version 4.

Limits

  • GetMetricData API calls are bounded by standard transactional rate limits per AWS region
  • Log queries through CloudWatch Logs Insights have a 15-minute execution timeout limit
  • Metric math queries support a maximum of 500 metrics and expressions per query call

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Fibric builds the connector under a managed deployment when you request it. Your quote covers the build, capabilities, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

How does Fibric authenticate with Amazon CloudWatch?
Fibric authenticates using standard AWS IAM mechanisms, supporting IAM user credentials or cross-account IAM role assumption. All API requests are signed with AWS Signature Version 4 protocol.
Can Fibric query cross-region or cross-account CloudWatch metrics?
Yes. CloudWatch supports cross-account and cross-region observability. Fibric queries metrics across linked source accounts when configured with appropriate CloudWatch monitoring permissions.
Can Fibric modify AWS infrastructure resources directly?
No. Fibric only interacts with CloudWatch monitoring endpoints. It proposes operational actions such as alarm threshold tuning or silence toggles, requiring confirmation before updates execute.
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