# SlidingWindow
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An evaluation window that advances each time the alarm is evaluated, forming a rolling time window. This is the default evaluation window. A sliding window has no additional configuration options.

Choose a sliding window when you need the fastest detection and the calendar boundaries of the data don't matter, such as for continuous performance, latency, or resource-exhaustion monitoring.

## Contents
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The members of this exception structure are context-dependent.

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/monitoring-2010-08-01/SlidingWindow) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/monitoring-2010-08-01/SlidingWindow) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/monitoring-2010-08-01/SlidingWindow) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon CloudWatch. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonCloudWatch` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).