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Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are

  • customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console
  • use to monitor resources in a single view,
  • resources spread across different Regions can be included
  • use to create customized views of the metrics and alarms for AWS resources.
  • With dashboards, you can create the following:
  • A single view for selected metrics and alarms to assess the health of resources and applications across regions.
  • An operational playbook for team members during operational events about how to respond to specific incidents.
  • A common view of critical resource and application measurements that can be shared by team members for faster communication flow during operational events.
  • Create dashboards by
    • the console
    • the AWS CLI
    • the  PutDashboard API.

To create a dashboard using the console

  • Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.
  • In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards and then Create dashboard.
  • In the Create new dashboard dialog box, enter a name for the dashboard and choose Create dashboard.
  • Do one of the following in the Add to this dashboard dialog box:
    • To add a graph to your dashboard, choose Line or Stacked area and choose Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metrics to graph and choose Create widget. If a specific metric doesn’t appear in the dialog box because it hasn’t published data in more than 14 days, you can add it manually. For more information, see Graph Metrics Manually on a CloudWatch Dashboard.
    • To add a number displaying a metric to the dashboard, choose Number and then Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metrics to graph and choose Create widget.
    • To add a text block to your dashboard, choose Text and then Configure. In the New text widget dialog box, for Markdown, add and format your text using Markdown. Choose Create widget.
    • Optionally, choose Add widget and repeat step 4 to add another widget to the dashboard. You can repeat this step multiple times.
  • Choose Save dashboard.
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