# What is AWS CloudWatch metrics?

What is AWS CloudWatch metrics?

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The metrics of AWS CloudWatch are numerical data that represent the performance and state of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. They are collected from various sources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS databases, AWS managed services, and custom applications. These metrics can include information such as CPU usage, memory usage, network latency, request counts, among others.

AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring service from AWS that allows you to collect, store, and visualize these metrics in real time. It offers a centralized interface to monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure resources and applications.

CloudWatch metrics are fundamental for understanding the behavior of your systems, identifying performance issues, setting alerts for critical situations, and making informed decisions to optimize your infrastructure and ensure that your applications are running efficiently and reliably.

You can use CloudWatch metrics to create custom dashboards, define alarms based on specific thresholds, automate actions using Amazon CloudWatch Events, and even create rules to automatically scale resources in response to changes in metrics.

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