| name | aws-observability |
| description | Comprehensive AWS observability with CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, Application Signals APM, CloudTrail auditing, and codebase observability gap analysis. Use when mentioning CloudWatch, observability, monitoring, logs, metrics, alarms, traces, or CloudTrail. |
AWS Observability
Key Capabilities
- CloudWatch Logs Insights queries across up to 50 log groups
- Metrics & Alarms with recommended configurations
- Application Signals APM with distributed tracing and SLOs
- CloudTrail security auditing (Lake, CloudWatch Logs, Lookup Events)
- Codebase observability gap analysis (Python, Java, JS/TS, Go, Ruby, C#)
MCP Servers
- awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server — Logs, Metrics, Alarms
- awslabs.cloudwatch-applicationsignals-mcp-server — APM, SLOs, tracing
- awslabs.cloudtrail-mcp-server — Security auditing
- awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server — AWS docs
Scenario Routing
- Incident response / troubleshooting → incident-response workflow
- Log analysis → log-analysis workflow
- Alerting setup → alerting-setup workflow
- Performance monitoring → performance-monitoring workflow
- Security auditing → security-auditing workflow
- Observability gaps → observability-gap-analysis workflow
MCP Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"cloudwatch": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server@latest"],
"env": {
"AWS_PROFILE": "default",
"AWS_REGION": "us-east-1",
"FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
}
}
}
}