title: AWS/Cloudwatch Alarms Limits
agents: aws
catalog: cloud/aws
license: GPL
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check monitors the AWS/Cloudwatch alarms limits, ie. the
 number of allowed alarms withing a region.
 To make this check work you have to configure the related
 special agent {Amazon Web Services (AWS)}.

 Default levels are set to 80, 90 percent and the default max.
 value of 5000. These levels are configurable.

 If limits are enabled all alarms are fetched regardless of
 possibly configured restriction to names.

inventory:
 One service will be created.
