Overview
aws-cloudwatch-investigation is an open-source devops skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by github. Its author describes it as: “Reusable investigation patterns for AWS CloudWatch: Logs Insights query templates, alarm-to-deployment correlation, blast-radius narrowing decision tree, and PromQL-style metric query patterns for structured incident…”. The project has 38k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudwatch-investigation`.
What aws-cloudwatch-investigation does
Reusable patterns for investigating production incidents using CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Alarms. These patterns are designed to be composed together during incident triage.
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What’s inside
The SKILL.md for aws-cloudwatch-investigation is organised into these sections:
- Pattern 1: Logs Insights Query Templates
- Error Spike Detection
- P99 Latency Breakdown by Operation
- Lambda Cold Start Detection
- Out-of-Memory (OOM) Detection
- Timeout Detection
- Pattern 2: Alarm History to Deploy-Event Correlation
- Process
- Output Format
- Pattern 3: Narrow the Blast Radius Decision Tree
- Shared Dependency Investigation
- Pattern 4: PromQL-Style Metric Query Patterns
Installation
Add aws-cloudwatch-investigation to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudwatch-investigationReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- GitHub Copilot — declared in the repository topics
License
aws-cloudwatch-investigation is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in github/awesome-copilot, an established project with 37,982 GitHub stars
- Works with GitHub Copilot
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does aws-cloudwatch-investigation do?
- Reusable investigation patterns for AWS CloudWatch: Logs Insights query templates, alarm-to-deployment correlation, blast-radius narrowing decision tree, and PromQL-style metric query patterns for structured incident triage.
- How do I install aws-cloudwatch-investigation?
- Run git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudwatch-investigation in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot before installing.
- Is aws-cloudwatch-investigation free to use?
- Yes. aws-cloudwatch-investigation is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does aws-cloudwatch-investigation work with?
- aws-cloudwatch-investigation lists GitHub Copilot — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does aws-cloudwatch-investigation come from?
- aws-cloudwatch-investigation ships inside github/awesome-copilot, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 37,982 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
