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title: AWS CloudWatchLogs
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<img src=/help/img/platform-services/automation-service/app-central/logos/aws.png alt="aws" width="50"/>

***Version: 1.4.1  
Updated: Sep 11, 2026***

[AWS CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/) provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution that you can start using within minutes. You no longer need to set up, manage, and scale your own monitoring systems and infrastructure.

## Actions

* **Describe Log Groups** (*Enrichment*) - Lists the specified log groups.
* **Describe Log Streams** (*Enrichment*) - Lists the specified log groups.
* **Describe Metric Filter** (*Enrichment*) -Lists the specified metric filters.
* **Filter Log Events** (*Enrichment*) - Lists log events from the specified log group.
* **Create Log Group** (*Containment*) - Creates a log group with the specified name.
* **Create Log Stream** (*Containment*) - Creates a log stream for the specified log group.
* **Put Log Events** (*Containment*) - Uploads a batch of log events to the specified log stream.
* **Put Metric Filter** (*Containment*) - Creates or updates a metric filter and associates it with the specified log group.
* **Put Retention Policy** (*Containment*) - Sets the retention of the specified log group.
* **Delete Log Group** (*Containment*) - Deletes the specified log group and permanently deletes all the archived log events associated with the log group.
* **Delete Log Stream** (*Containment*) - Deletes the specified log stream and permanently deletes all the archived log events associated with the log stream.
* **Delete Metric Filter** (*Containment*) - Deletes the specified metric filter.
* **Get Metric Data** (*Enrichment*) - Retrieves CloudWatch metric data for specified metrics within a time range.
* **List Metrics** (*Enrichment*) - Lists the metrics for the specified namespace, metric name, and dimensions.
* **Get Metric Statistics** (*Enrichment*) - Gets statistics for the specified metric for a specified time period.

## External Libraries

* [AWS CloudWatch](https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/LICENSE)

## Configure AWS CloudWatch Logs in Automation Service and Cloud SOAR

import IntegrationsAuth from '../../reuse/integrations-authentication.md';
import IntegrationsAuthAWS from '../../reuse/integrations-authentication-aws.md';
import AWSRegions from '../../reuse/automation-service/aws/region.md';
import AWSAccesskey from '../../reuse/automation-service/aws/access-key.md';
import AWSSecret from '../../reuse/automation-service/aws/secret.md';
import IntegrationCertificate from '../../reuse/automation-service/integration-certificate.md';
import IntegrationEngine from '../../reuse/automation-service/integration-engine.md';
import IntegrationLabel from '../../reuse/automation-service/integration-label.md';
import IntegrationProxy from '../../reuse/automation-service/integration-proxy.md';
import IntegrationTimeout from '../../reuse/automation-service/integration-timeout.md';

<IntegrationsAuth/>

* <IntegrationLabel/>
* <AWSAccesskey/>
* <AWSSecret/>
* <AWSRegions/>
* **URL**. Enter your [AWS CloudWatch Logs URL](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/cwl_region.html), for example, `logs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com`.
* <IntegrationEngine/>
* <IntegrationProxy/>

<img src=/help/img/platform-services/automation-service/app-central/integrations/aws/aws-cloudwatchlogs-configuration.png style={{border:'1px solid gray'}} alt="AWS CloudWatch Logs configuration" width="400"/>

<IntegrationsAuthAWS/>

For information about AWS CloudWatch Logs, see [CloudWatch Logs documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html).

## Change Log

| Version | Date | Description |
|:--|:--|:--|
| v1.4.1 | September 11, 2026 | Added new metric actions: **Get Metric Data**, **List Metrics**, and **Get Metric Statistics**. |
| v1.3.0 | November 03, 2025 | Updated timestamp parsing to support both legacy and ISO 8601 formats in the **Filter Log Events** and **Put Log Events** actions. |
| v1.2.0 | June 15, 2023 | Updated the integration with Environmental Variables. |
| v1.1.0 | March 10, 2022 | Updated the logo in AWS CloudWatchLogs integration. |
| v1.0.0 | October 16, 2019 | Initial release of the AWS CloudWatchLogs integration. |