The Amazon CloudWatch documentation features a user guide, including a using dashboards section, the AWS CLI reference, and the API reference. Support is provided via the Amazon CloudWatch forum.

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable dashboards that provide a unified view of all your AWS resources – including those that are located in different AWS regions.

I find AWS employees to be intelligent and well-intentioned, and most of their services quite good. CloudWatch could get there with some work, but it's got a number of very painful usability issues ...

Another dashboard displays information on application health and performance from CloudWatch Application Signals, a new tool that Vogels introduced during today’s keynote.

But overall, the Datadog dashboards and interface are self-explanatory. CloudWatch, though, is less straightforward. Veteran AWS professionals won’t find it challenging. But others might.

With Real User Monitoring, AWS customers can understand when there is a problem with a deployment and take corrective action before customers really begin to feel it.

You can set up CloudWatch to alert you to conditions in which the EBS volume is having trouble keeping pace with the demand. The first step in this process is to figure out which EBS volume is mapped ...