AWS API usage metrics - Amazon CloudWatch

AWS API usage metrics

Most APIs that support AWS CloudTrail logging also report usage metrics to CloudWatch. API usage metrics in CloudWatch allow you to proactively manage API usage by visualizing metrics in the CloudWatch console, creating custom dashboards, detecting changes in activity with CloudWatch Anomaly Detection, and configuring alarms that alert when usage approaches a threshold.

The following table lists the services that report API usage metrics to CloudWatch, and the value to use for the Service dimension to see the usage metrics from that service.

Service Value for the Service dimension

AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer

Access Analyzer

AWS Account Management

Account Management

Alexa for Business

A4B

Amazon API Gateway

API Gateway

AWS App Mesh

App Mesh

AWS AppConfig

AWS AppConfig

Amazon AppFlow

AppFlow

Application Auto Scaling

Application Auto Scaling

Application Discovery Service

Application Discovery Service

Amazon AppStream

AppStream

AppStream 2.0 Image Builder

Image Builder

Amazon Athena

Athena

AWS Audit Manager

Audit Manager

AWS Backup

Backup

AWS Batch

Batch

Amazon Braket

Braket

AWS Budgets

Budgets

AWS Certificate Manager

Certificate Manager

Amazon Chime SDK

ChimeSDK

Amazon Cloud Directory

Cloud Directory

AWS Cloud Map

Cloud Map

AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation

AWS CloudHSM

CloudHSM

Amazon CloudSearch

CloudSearch

AWS CloudShell

CloudShell

AWS CloudTrail

CloudTrail

Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

CloudWatch Application Insights

AWS CodeBuild

CodeBuild

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

CodeGuru Profiler

AWS CodePipeline

CodePipeline

AWS CodeStar

CodeStar

AWS CodeStar Notifications

CodeStar Notifications

AWS CodeStar Connections

CodeStar Connections

Amazon Cognito Identity pools

Cognito Identity Pools

Amazon Cognito Sync

Cognito Sync

Amazon Comprehend

Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend Medical

Comprehend Medical

AWS Compute Optimizer

ComputeOptimzier

Amazon Connect

Connect

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles

Customer Profiles

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

Cost and Usage Report

AWS Cost Explorer

Cost Explorer

AWS Data Exchange

Data Exchange

AWS Data Lifecycle Manager

Data Lifecycle Manager

AWS Database Migration Service

Database Migration Service

AWS DataSync

DataSync

AWS DeepLens

AWS DeepLens

Amazon Detective

Detective

Device Advisor

Device Advisor

AWS Direct Connect

Direct Connect

AWS Directory Service

Directory Service

DynamoDB Accelerator

DynamoDBAccelerator

Amazon EC2

EC2

EC2 Auto Scaling

EC2 Auto Scaling

Amazon Elastic Container Registry

ECR Public

Amazon Elastic Container Service

ECS

Amazon Elastic File System

EFS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

EKS

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Elastic Inference

Elastic Inference

Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon EMR

EMR Containers

AWS Firewall Manager

Firewall Manager

Amazon FSx

FSx

Amazon GameLift

GameLift

AWS Glue DataBrew

DataBrew

Amazon Managed Grafana

Grafana

AWS IoT Greengrass

Greengrass

AWS Ground Station

Ground Station

AWS Health APIs And Notifications

AWS Health APIs And Notifications

Amazon Interactive Video Service

IVS

AWS IoT Core

IoT

AWS IoT 1-Click

IoT 1-Click

AWS IoT Events

IoT Events

AWS IoT RoboRunner

IoT RoboRunner

AWS IoT SiteWise

IoT Sitewise

AWS IoT Wireless

IoT Wireless

Amazon Kendra

Kendra

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Keyspaces

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Kinesis Analytics

Amazon Data Firehose

Firehose

Kinesis Video Streams

Kinesis Video Streams

AWS Key Management Service

KMS

AWS Lambda

Lambda

AWS Launch Wizard

Launch Wizard

Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex

Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail

Amazon Location Service

Location

Amazon Lookout for Vision

Lookout for Vision

Amazon Machine Learning

Amazon Machine Learning

Amazon Macie

Macie

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query

Amazon Managed Blockchain Query

AWS Managed Services

AWS Managed Services

AWS Marketplace Commerce Analytics

Marketplace Analytics Service

AWS Elemental MediaConnect

MediaConnect

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

MediaConvert

AWS Elemental MediaLive

MediaLive

AWS Elemental MediaStore

Mediastore

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

MediaTailor

AWS Mobile Hub

Mobile Hub

AWS Network Firewall

Network Firewall

AWS OpsWorks

OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management

OPsWorks CM

AWS Outposts

Outposts

AWS Organizations

Organizations

Amazon RDS Performance Insights

Performance Insights

Amazon Pinpoint

Pinpoint

AWS Private Certificate Authority

Private Certificate Authority

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus

AWS Proton

Proton

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

QLDB

Amazon RDS

RDS

Amazon Redshift

Redshift Data API

Amazon Rekognition

Rekognition

AWS Resource Access Manager

Resource Access Manager

AWS Resource Groups

Resource Groups

AWS Resource Groups Tagging API

Resource Groups Tagging API

AWS RoboMaker

RoboMaker

Amazon RouteĀ 53 Domains

Route 53 Domains

Amazon RouteĀ 53 Resolver

Route 53 Resolver

Amazon S3

S3

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon SageMaker Runtime

Sagemaker

Savings Plans

Savings Plans

AWS Secrets Manager

Secrets Manager

AWS Security Hub

Security Hub

AWS Server Migration Service

AWS Server Migration Service

AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry

Service Catalog AppRegistry

Service Quotas

Service Quotas

AWS Shield

Shield

AWS Signer

Signer

Amazon Simple Notification Service

SNS

Amazon Simple Email Service

SES

Amazon Simple Queue Service

SQS

Identity Store

Identity Store

Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway

AWS Support

Support

Amazon Simple Workflow Service

SWF

Amazon Textract

Textract

AWS IoT Things Graph

ThingsGraph

Amazon Timestream

Timestream

Amazon Transcribe

Transcribe

Amazon Translate

Translate

Amazon Transcribe streaming transcription

Transcribe Streaming

AWS Transfer Family

Transfer

AWS WAF

WAF

Amazon WorkDocs

Amazon WorkDocs

Amazon WorkLink

WorkLink

Amazon WorkMail

Amazon WorkMail

Amazon WorkSpaces

Workspaces

AWS X-Ray

X-Ray

Some services report usage metrics for additional APIs as well. To see whether an API reports usage metrics to CloudWatch, use the CloudWatch console to see the metrics reported by that service in the AWS/Usage namespace.

To see the list of a service's APIs that report usage metrics to CloudWatch
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.

  3. On the All metrics tab, choose Usage, and then choose By AWS Resource.

  4. In the search box near the list of metrics, enter the name of the service. The metrics are filtered by the service you entered.