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AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Skill

A practical CloudWatch reference that generates alarms, Logs Insights queries and dashboards via AWS CLI or boto3.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 1,162⑂ 445AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 5, 2026

What it does

  • Grounds Claude in CloudWatch fundamentals: metrics (namespace, dimensions, statistics), log groups/streams, alarm states and alarm types.
  • Supplies ready-to-run AWS CLI commands and boto3 snippets for put-metric-alarm, put-log-alarm, put-metric-filter, put-metric-data and put-dashboard.
  • Includes common patterns such as metric-math error-rate alarms, Logs Insights queries with polling for results, and JSON dashboard bodies.
  • Adds a troubleshooting section with debug commands for missing metrics, alarms stuck in INSUFFICIENT_DATA, absent log events and cost spikes.

Who it's for

  • Backend, DevOps and SRE engineers who own alarms and dashboards on AWS.
  • Developers who regularly dig through Lambda/EC2/ECS logs with Logs Insights.
  • Cloud owners tuning log retention and CloudWatch spend.

Example uses

  1. "Alarm me on SNS when MyFunction's Lambda error rate exceeds 5%" → produces a metric-math alarm definition.
  2. "Find ERROR lines in /aws/lambda/MyFunction over the last hour" → produces the start-query + get-query-results flow.
  3. "My alarm sits in INSUFFICIENT_DATA — why?" → walks dimension mismatches, warm-up windows and scheduled-query role permissions.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r aws-agent-skills/skills/cloudwatch ~/.claude/skills/cloudwatch

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (macOS/Linux) or WSL/Git Bash on Windows.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/itsmostafa/aws-agent-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r aws-agent-skills/skills/cloudwatch ~/.claude/skills/cloudwatch
  5. Make sure the AWS CLI is installed and credentials are configured with aws configure (for the Python examples, run pip install boto3).
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "create a CloudWatch alarm for my Lambda" — the skill loads automatically.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT