# New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch

DevFeed: [New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-enhanced-assetstate-dimension-for-aws-outposts-capacity-metrics-on-amazon-cloudwatch-4669.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-enhanced-assetstate-dimension-for-aws-outposts-capacity-metrics-on-amazon-cloudwatch/>)

Author: Rachel McElwaine

Published: 2026-07-15T22:52:23Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [AWS Compute Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/aws-compute-blog.md>)

Topics: [AWS Outposts](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-outposts.md>), [Amazon CloudWatch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-cloudwatch.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>)

Tags: [amazon-cloudwatch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-cloudwatch.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-outposts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-outposts.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [remote](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote.md>)

## AI overview

AWS Outposts capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch now support an AssetState dimension with Active, Isolated, and Retiring values, enabling more accurate capacity monitoring and alarms.

## Source excerpt

Today, we are releasing an expanded format of our Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for AWS Outposts capacity metrics. The existing CloudWatch metrics, AvailableInstanceType_Count, UsedInstanceType_Count, InstanceTypeCapacityAvailability, and InstanceTypeCapacityUtilization for Outposts, can now be grouped using the new AssetState dimension with values: Active, Isolated, or Retiring. In this post, we describe what's changing and how you can use [...]