Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard
- Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.
- In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards and then Create dashboard.
- In the Create new dashboard dialog box, enter a name for the dashboard and choose Create dashboard.
If you use the name CloudWatch-Default, the dashboard appears on the overview on the CloudWatch home page. If you use resource groups and name the dashboard CloudWatch-Default-ResourceGroupName, it appears on the CloudWatch home page when you focus on that resource group. - Do one of the following in the Add to this dashboard dialog box:
- To add a graph to your dashboard, choose Line or Stacked area and choose Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metrics to graph and choose Create widget. If a specific metric doesn’t appear in the dialog box because it hasn’t published data in more than 14 days, you can add it manually.
- To add a number displaying a metric to the dashboard, choose Number and then Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metrics to graph and choose Create widget.
- To add a text block to your dashboard, choose Text and then Configure. In the New text widget dialog box, for Markdown, add and format your text using Markdown. Choose Create widget.
- Optionally, choose Add widget and repeat step 4 to add another widget to the dashboard. You can repeat this step multiple times.
- Choose Save dashboard.
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