Aws Cloudwatch
Provides AWS guidance and assistance for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add aws-cloudwatch npx -- -y @trustedskills/aws-cloudwatch
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"aws-cloudwatch": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/aws-cloudwatch"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill allows AI agents to interact with AWS CloudWatch, a monitoring and observability service. It enables querying metrics, setting up alarms, and retrieving logs from your AWS environment. Specifically, you can retrieve data about EC2 instances, databases (like RDS), and other AWS services to understand their performance and health.
When to use it
- Troubleshooting application issues: Quickly identify the root cause of errors by examining CloudWatch metrics and logs related to a specific application or service.
- Monitoring resource utilization: Track CPU usage, memory consumption, network traffic, and other key metrics for your AWS resources over time.
- Responding to alerts: Automatically investigate alarms triggered in CloudWatch, such as high error rates or low disk space.
- Generating performance reports: Compile data from CloudWatch into custom reports to assess the overall health and efficiency of your AWS infrastructure.
Key capabilities
- Metric retrieval
- Log retrieval
- Alarm configuration (limited)
- AWS service monitoring
Example prompts
- "Show me the CPU utilization for my EC2 instance 'web-server-01' over the last hour."
- "What are the latest error logs from my RDS database?"
- “List all active CloudWatch alarms.”
Tips & gotchas
- Requires appropriate AWS credentials and permissions to access CloudWatch data.
- The skill’s alarm configuration capabilities might be limited compared to direct interaction with the AWS console.
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