AWS CloudWatch Alarms Now Support Metric Math Expressions in Composite Alarms!

🚀 AWS CloudWatch Alarms Now Support Metric Math Expressions in Composite Alarms!

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🔔 What’s New?
AWS has rolled out an update that allows Metric Math Expressions to be used inside CloudWatch Composite Alarms!
You can now combine multiple metrics with complex conditions — and trigger alarms only when meaningful thresholds are crossed.

💡 Why It Matters
Previously, we had to manage multiple individual alarms and manually correlate metrics. This update simplifies alert logic and reduces noise.

✅ Real-World Example: Alert Only When Both CPU & Memory Spike

Let’s say you want to trigger an alert only if both CPU usage > 80% and Memory > 75%.

📐 Step 1: Create Metric Math Expression

expression = (CPUUtilization > 80) AND (MemoryUtilization > 75)

🔁 Step 2: Add to a Composite Alarm
Combine this expression with individual metric alarms and create a unified composite alarm.

📌 Key Benefits
✅ Smarter alerting — combine logic across multiple metrics
✅ Reduced alert fatigue — fewer false positives
✅ More context — alarms that reflect real-world symptoms

🧠 What You Can Build With It

Holistic service health checks

Proactive resource scaling triggers

Alert suppression during deployments

💬 Your Turn
Have you started using Metric Math in your CloudWatch alarms?
Drop a comment or share your favorite monitoring trick! 👇