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Setting up SSO for CloudWatch dashboard sharing

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Setting up SSO for CloudWatch dashboard sharing - Amazon CloudWatch

To set up dashboard sharing through a third-party single sign-on provider that supports SAML, follow these steps.

Important

We strongly recommend that you do not share dashboards using a non-SAML SSO provider. Doing so causes a risk of inadvertently allowing third parties to access your account's dashboards.

To set up an SSO provider to enable dashboard sharing
  1. Integrate the SSO provider with Amazon Cognito. For more information, see Integrating Third-Party SAML Identity Providers with Amazon Cognito User Pools.

  2. Download the metadata XML file from your SSO provider.

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

  4. In the navigation pane, choose Settings.

  5. In the Dashboard sharing section, choose Configure.

  6. Choose Manage SSO providers.

    This opens the Amazon Cognito console in the US East (N. Virginia) Region (us-east-1). If you don't see any User Pools, the Amazon Cognito console might have opened in a different Region. If so, change the Region to US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 and proceed with the next steps.

  7. Choose the CloudWatchDashboardSharing pool.

  8. In the navigation pane, choose Identity providers.

  9. Choose SAML.

  10. Enter a name for your SSO provider in Provider name.

  11. Choose Select file, and select the metadata XML file that you downloaded in step 1.

  12. Choose Create provider.

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