# SDK and API reference
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This section provides reference material for developers who interact with CloudWatch programmatically. Use AWS SDKs to integrate CloudWatch into your applications, review code examples for common operations, and learn about the protocols and security model that CloudWatch supports.

**Topics**
+ [FAQs on CloudWatch supported protocols](cloudwatch-protocols-faq.md)
+ [Using CloudWatch with an AWS SDK](sdk-general-information-section.md)
+ [Security in Amazon CloudWatch](security.md)

## 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).