Using Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards
Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those resources that are spread across different Regions. You can use CloudWatch dashboards to create customized views of the metrics and alarms for your AWS resources.
With dashboards, you can create the following:
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A single view for selected metrics and alarms to help you assess the health of your resources and applications across one or more regions. You can select the color used for each metric on each graph, so that you can easily track the same metric across multiple graphs.
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An operational playbook that provides guidance for team members during operational events about how to respond to specific incidents.
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A common view of critical resource and application measurements that can be shared by team members for faster communication flow during operational events.
You can create dashboards by using the
console, the AWS CLI, or by using the PutDashboard API.
Contents
- Create a Dashboard
- Add or Remove a Graph
- Move or Resize a Graph
- Edit a Graph
- Graph Metrics Manually on a CloudWatch Dashboard
- Rename a Graph
- Add or Remove a Text Widget
- Add or Remove an Alarm
- Monitor Resources in Multiple Regions
- Link and Unlink Graphs
- Add a Dashboard to Your Favorites List
- Change the Period Override Setting or Refresh Interval
- Change the Time Range or Time Zone Format
