NOTE – A new version of the Amazon CloudWatch Logs User Guide is available at
This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor, manage, and publish various metrics on your AWS cloud resources, as well as configure alarm actions based on data from metrics.
This guide provides a conceptual overview of CloudWatch Logs and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.