Add or remove a line widget on a CloudWatch dashboard

With the line widget, you can compare metrics over periods of time. You also can use the widget's mini-map zoom feature to inspect sections of line graphs without changing between zoomed-in and zoomed-out views. The procedures in this section describe how to add and remove a line widget on a CloudWatch dashboard. For information about using the widget's mini-map zoom feature with line graphs, see Zooming in on a line or stacked area graph.

To add a line 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, and select Line.

4. Choose Metrics.

5. Choose Browse, and select the metric that you want to graph.

6. Choose Create widget, and then choose Save dashboard.

To remove a line 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. In the upper-right corner of the line widget that you want to remove, choose Widget actions, and then choose Delete.

4. Choose Save dashboard.