Adding an alarm status widget to a CloudWatch dashboard

To add an alarm status widget to a dashboard

1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards, and then choose a dashboard.

3. Choose the + symbol.

4. Choose Alarm status.

5. Select the check boxes next to the alarms that you want to add to the widget, and then choose Create widget.

6. Choose Add to dashboard.