Amazon CloudWatch: User Guide

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon CloudWatch. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudwatch/. CloudWatch enables you to monitor your AWS services, collect and track metrics from AWS services and your own applications, and set alarms based on data from those metrics. This guide explains how to specify what AWS metrics to collect, how to publish custom metrics for your applications, and how to create dashboards and alarms.