Add or remove EC2 instance tags - Application Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

Add or remove EC2 instance tags

To add or remove EC2 instances from the dashboard, you can add or remove the pre-determined tag at any point. These changes update on the dashboard in approximately five minutes.

To add an Amazon EC2 tag:

  1. Sign in to the Amazon EC2 console.

  2. Select the instance you want to onboard to the dashboard

  3. Select the Tags tab. Choose Manage tags.

  4. Choose Add tag to the instance and provide the key-value pair you provided during deployment. If you used the default value during deployment, it would look as follows for the Apache workload.

    Figure 9: Add Amazon EC2 tag

    Add Amazon EC2 tag

  5. Choose Save.

To remove an Amazon EC2 tag:

  1. Sign in to the Amazon EC2 console.

  2. Select the instance you want to onboard to the dashboard

  3. Select the Tags tab. Choose Manage tags.

  4. Identify the workload specific tag, choose Remove.

  5. Choose Save.