On the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, you can use Amazon CloudWatch to create alarms that monitor metrics and send notifications or automatically make changes if a threshold is breached.
To avoid being limited by static thresholds, you can create alarms based on past patterns and that notify you if specific metrics are outside the normal operating window. For example, you could monitor your API’s response times from Amazon API Gateway and receive notifications about anomalies that prevent you from meeting a service-level agreement (SLA).
This pattern describes how to use CloudWatch anomaly detection for custom metrics. The pattern shows you how to create a custom metric in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights or publish a custom metric with an AWS Lambda function, and then set up anomaly detection and create notifications using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).
