querying-aws-cloudwatch

querying-aws-cloudwatch is a skill for Claude Code from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. It costs 184 tokens per session (3,295 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A query guide for CloudWatch Logs exported to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3. CloudWatch Logs are records produced by AWS services and applications, and the guide analyzes them with SQL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query VPC, WAF, CloudFront, Route 53, EKS, and other AWS logs with SQL, including investigations that combine several data sources.
Why use it?
It supports analysis across large historical log datasets and lets you join logs with S3 metadata or other business tables.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to query VPC, WAF, CloudFront, Route 53, EKS, and other AWS logs with SQL, including investigations that combine several data sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/querying-aws-cloudwatch
About the project

Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · 2,569 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill querying-aws-cloudwatch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,295 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 17 Jun 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00184 $0.03295
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01648
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00330

Measured 6d ago against content hash df6d7d68cfee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

querying-aws-cloudwatch scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/specialized-skills/system-table-skills/querying-aws-cloudwatch/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Query AWS CloudWatch System Tables

Overview

Works best with the AWS MCP server for sandboxed execution and audit logging. All commands below use the AWS CLI and work in any environment with configured AWS credentials.

The CloudWatch Logs S3 Tables integration exports log data as Apache Iceberg tables in the AWS-managed aws-cloudwatch table bucket. This enables SQL analysis via Amazon Athena and correlation of log data with non-CloudWatch data (S3 metadata, business tables, etc.). Available at no additional storage charge beyond CloudWatch ingestion pricing.

Decision Tree

User intent Use this skill? Alternative
Run SQL across large volumes of log data Yes
Correlate logs with S3 metadata or other tables Yes — join across catalogs
Quick log search / pattern matching No CloudWatch Logs Insights (faster for ad-hoc)
Real-time log streaming/tailing No CloudWatch Logs console or logs filter-log-events
Set up alarms on log patterns No CloudWatch Metric Filters / Alarms
Query historical logs before integration was enabled No CloudWatch Logs (no backfill in S3 Tables)

Supported Data Sources

The following data sources are available through the S3 Tables integration. Each data source has a namespace pattern used in SQL queries. Not all AWS vended data sources may be available in all Regions; check the CloudWatch console Data Sources tab for current availability.

Data Source Namespace pattern Common use case
VPC Flow Logs amazon_vpc__flow Network traffic analysis, rejected connections
WAF Logs aws_waf__logs Blocked requests, rule hit analysis
CloudFront Access Logs amazon_cloudfront__access CDN traffic patterns, error rates
Route 53 Resolver Query Logs amazon_route53resolver__query DNS query analysis
Network Firewall Logs aws_networkfirewall__logs Firewall rule hits, dropped traffic
EKS Audit Logs amazon_eks__audit Kubernetes API audit trail
Verified Access Logs amazon_verifiedaccess__logs Zero-trust access decisions
SES Mail Logs amazon_ses__mail Email delivery/bounce tracking
VPC Lattice Access Logs amazon_vpclattice__access Service-to-service access patterns
Step Functions Logs aws_stepfunctions__logs Workflow execution debugging
Global Accelerator Flow Logs aws_globalaccelerator__flow Global network traffic
NLB Access Logs elastic_load_balancing__nlb_access Load balancer request tracing
Shield Logs aws_shield__logs DDoS mitigation events
Cognito Logs amazon_cognito__logs Auth/identity operations
ElastiCache Logs amazon_elasticache__logs Redis slow log, engine log
SageMaker Logs amazon_sagemaker__logs ML training/inference events
WorkMail Audit Logs amazon_workmail__audit Email security/compliance
Bedrock Agent Logs aws_bedrock_agent_core__logs AI agent invocations
Client VPN Logs aws_client_vpn__connections VPN connection tracking
Entity Resolution Logs aws_entity_resolution__logs Record matching operations
MediaPackage Access Logs aws_elemental_mediapackage__access Streaming delivery metrics
MediaTailor Logs aws_elemental_mediatailor__logs Ad insertion events
Transfer Family Logs aws_transfer_family__logs SFTP/FTPS file transfer tracking
Site-to-Site VPN Logs aws_site_to_site_vpn__logs VPN tunnel diagnostics

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 309 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A df6d7d68cfee

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querying-aws-cloudwatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,569 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 3,295 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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