Using Amazon CloudWatch

This section describes how to use Amazon CloudWatch. You can access Amazon CloudWatch by signing on to the AWS Management Console, downloading and installing the command line interface (CLI), or creating a query request with the query API.

This section expands on the basic concepts presented in the preceding section (see Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch), and includes procedures for using Amazon CloudWatch. This section also shows you how to view metrics that other AWS products provide to Amazon CloudWatch and how to publish custom metrics with Amazon CloudWatch.

The procedures in this section include instructions for the AWS Management Console, the command line tools (i.e., the API tools), and the Query API. In the HTML version of this document, you can show instructions for a single interface. There is an interface selection menu in the upper-right corner of each web page. Select your interface of choice to hide all others, or select All to show the instructions in all available interfaces.