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title: "CloudWatch"
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description: "Learn how the AWS Module retrieves Amazon CloudWatch metrics, including CPU utilization and resource data, for use in Flows and Reports."
updated: 2026-05-26T20:15:55Z
published: 2026-05-26T20:15:55Z
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# CloudWatch

## Overview

| ## Module Details |
| --- |
| **Core or Github Module** | Core |
| **Restart Required?** | No |
| **Steps Exposed?** | Yes |
| **Step Location** | Integration > AWS > CloudWatch |
| **Settings Location** | Settings must be configured for each step |
| **Prerequisites** | - Active CloudWatch service subscription |

As part of the **AWS Module** integration with **Amazon CloudWatch**, a monitoring and observability service used to provide data on system wide performance and resource utilization for Amazon EC2 instances. With the integration, information such as the average/max CPU utilization and metric data can be retrieved from **CloudWatch** and used within Flows and Reports.

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## Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance

The **Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance** step retrieves the average CPU utilization over a period of time for an EC2 instance.

| Input | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Region | The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on. |
| EC2 Instance Id | The ID for the EC2 instance. |
| Start Date | Marks the initial date used for retrieval. |
| End Date | The end date used for retrieval. |
| Period | Defines the period of time when data is gathered. |

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## Get Max CPU Utilization for Instance

The **Get Average CPU Utilization for Instance** step retrieves the max CPU utilization over a period of time for an EC2 instance.

| Input | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Region | The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on. |
| EC2 Instance Id | The ID for the EC2 instance. |
| Start Date | Marks the initial date used for retrieval. |
| End Date | The end date used for retrieval. |
| Period | Defines the period of time when data is gathered. |

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## Get Metric Data

The **Get Metric Data** step is used to retrieve CloudWatch metric values, such timestamps and other identifying information for a data set.

| Region | The Amazon AWS Region the instance is located on. |
| --- | --- |
| Instance Id | The ID for the EC2 instance. |
| Metric Name | The name of the metric that will be returned. |
| Namespace | The namespace used by the metric. |
| Stat | The status code for the returned data. |
| Start Date | Marks the initial date used for retrieval. |
| End Date | The end date used for retrieval. |
| Period | Defines the period of time when data is gathered. |

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