Add or remove an alarm widget from a CloudWatch dashboard
To add an alarm widget to a dashboard, choose one of the following options:
Add a single alarm in a widget, which displays the graph of the alarm's metric and also displays the alarm status.
Add an alarm status widget, which displays the status of multiple alarms in a grid. Only the alarm names and current status are displayed, Graphs are not displayed. You can include up to 100 alarms in one alarm status widget.
To add a single alarm, including its graph, to a dashboard
Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
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In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, select the alarm to add, and then choose Add to Dashboard.
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Select a dashboard, choose a widget type (Line, Stacked area, or Number), and then choose Add to dashboard.
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To see your alarm on the dashboard, choose Dashboards in the navigation pane and select the dashboard.
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(Optional) To temporarily make an alarm graph larger, select the graph.
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(Optional) To change the widget type, hover over the title of the graph, choose Widget actions, and then choose Widget type.
To add an alarm status widget to a dashboard
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Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
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In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards, and then choose a dashboard.
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Choose the + symbol.
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Choose Alarm status.
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Select the check boxes next to the alarms that you want to add to the widget, and then choose Create widget.
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Choose Add to dashboard.
To remove an alarm widget from a dashboard
Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
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In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards, and then choose a dashboard.
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Hover over the widget, choose Widget actions, and then choose Delete.
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Choose Save dashboard. If you attempt to navigate away from the dashboard before you save your changes, you're prompted to either save or discard your changes.