AWS CloudWatch Alarms API
Operations for creating, managing, and querying CloudWatch alarms
AWS CloudWatch Alarms API is one of 8 APIs that AWS CloudWatch publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Alarms. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, pricing, a getting-started guide, an API reference, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 8 operations across 8 paths, and defines 24 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2010-08-01.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://monitoring.{region}.amazonaws.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
AWS CloudWatch Alarms API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (aws_sigv4).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
aws_sigv4— AWS Signature Version 4 authentication
Paths & Operations 8
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 8 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for creating, managing, and querying CloudWatch alarms
Schemas 24
The contract defines 24 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are MetricAlarm (28 properties), PutMetricAlarmInput (22 properties), CompositeAlarm (19 properties), DescribeAlarmsInput (9 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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