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Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch integration

Amazon CloudWatch is the native observability heartbeat of AWS, monitoring everything from individual EC2 instances to complex serverless architectures.

How ITOC360 connects to Amazon CloudWatch

Notification via preferred channel

CloudWatch alarms reach your on-call team via Voice Call, SMS, or Email instantly. No more unanswered ALARM states at 11 PM.

24/7 Actionable Cloud Response

Automatically move through your cloud escalation chain until a human expert acknowledges—ensuring AWS outages lead to active resolution.

Zero CloudWatch config changes

Keep your existing alarms, metric filters, and dashboards untouched. Connect via native Amazon SNS HTTPS subscriptions.

Detailed Incident Audit Trail

ITOC360 generates a complete timeline: exactly when the CloudWatch alarm transitioned, who was paged, and acknowledgment time.

While CloudWatch identifies metric breaches and log anomalies with AWS-native precision, an alarm that only triggers an SNS email at 11 PM on a Sunday is still passive. A critical database CPU spike only matters if it triggers a guaranteed human response from the right cloud engineer.

ITOC360 connects to CloudWatch via Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service). When an alarm transitions to the "ALARM" state, ITOC360 identifies the primary responder from your live on-call schedule and reaches them via Voice Call, SMS, or Email. No acknowledgment? The escalation process starts instantly. Your existing alarms, SNS topics, and AWS metric filters stay exactly as they are.

80% of outages are avoidable. CloudWatch identifies the metric breach; ITOC360 ensures a human response matches that native observability.

Why AWS Alarms Go Unanswered After Hours

Amazon CloudWatch is the bedrock of AWS observability, identifying metric breaches and log anomalies with native precision. But an alarm that only sends an SNS message at night is still passive. If the cloud engineer is asleep or their notifications are silent, the application degradation grows unaddressed despite CloudWatch identifying it correctly.

ITOC360 turns CloudWatch's detection into active cloud defense. We wake up the on-call responder the second an alarm state changes, ensuring that your observability investment leads to 24/7 proactive response.

Cloud-Native Observability Meeting Active Escalation

CloudWatch identifies the metric breach, but passive SNS channels cannot guarantee a human response. ITOC360 bridges that gap, notifying the right expert via their preferred channel and escalating until someone responds.

How it works

Monitoring sources
Alibaba CloudMonitor
Amazon CloudWatch
AppDynamics
Argo CD
AWS Budget
AWS GuardDuty
Azure Activity Logs
Azure Cost Budget
Azure DevOps
Azure Log Alerts
Azure Metric Alerts
Azure Service Health
Checkmk
Cortex
CrowdStrike
Datadog
Dynatrace
Elastic
GitHub
GitLab
Google Cloud Monitoring
Google Security Command Center
Grafana
Grafana Loki
Grafana Mimir
Graylog
InfluxDB
Instana
Jenkins
Jira
Kibana
Linear
ManageEngine OpManager
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Teams
MongoDB Atlas
n8n
Netdata
New Relic
Pingdom
Postman
Prometheus
PRTG Network Monitor
Rollbar
Salesforce
Sentry
ServiceNow
SignalFx
SigNoz
Site24x7
Slack
SolarWinds Orion
StatusCake
Statuspage.io
Terraform Cloud
Twilio
VictoriaMetrics
Zabbix
Zapier
Growing integration library
ITOC360 core
Alert Ingestion & Deduplication
Noise Reduction / Grouping
Routing engine
On-call Schedule
Escalation Policy
Rotations
Notification layer
SMS
Voice Call
E-mail
Responder actions
Acknowledge
Assign
Resolve
Post-incident
Timeline Report

Common questions

How does ITOC360 connect to CloudWatch?

Through Amazon SNS. Add ITOC360's Webhook URL as an HTTPS subscriber to your SNS topic and link it to your CloudWatch alarms.

Do I need to update AWS for shifts?

No. Manage all your cloud rotations, schedules, and holidays in ITOC360. CloudWatch just sends the alarm, and ITOC360 handles finding the right person.

Can I route different alarms differently?

Yes. Link separate SNS topics to their respective specialist teams in ITOC360 based on the alarm namespace or priority.

Will it interfere with my existing SNS notifications?

No. ITOC360 runs as an additional SNS subscriber. Your existing Email, SMS, and Lambda subscribers continue working untouched.

What reporting is available for Reliability Audits?

ITOC360 provides a complete timeline: when CloudWatch fired, when the first call went out, and who eventually acknowledged the alarm.

Connect Amazon CloudWatch and stop missing alerts

Free to start, no card, and no agent to deploy on your monitoring host.