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

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

2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, select the alarm to add, and then choose Add to Dashboard.

3. Select a dashboard, choose a widget type (Line, Stacked area, or Number), and then choose Add to dashboard.

4. To see your alarm on the dashboard, choose Dashboards in the navigation pane and select the dashboard.

5. (Optional) To temporarily make an alarm graph larger, select the graph.

6. (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

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.

To remove an alarm widget from 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. Hover over the widget, choose Widget actions, and then choose Delete.

4. 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.