AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams API
Operations for managing metric streams
AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams 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 Metric Streams. 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 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 8 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 Metric Streams 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 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Operations for managing metric streams
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are PutMetricStreamInput (8 properties), MetricStreamEntry (7 properties), ListMetricStreamsOutput (2 properties), ErrorResponse (2 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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