Creating a customized CloudWatch dashboard
To get started, create a CloudWatch dashboard. You can create multiple dashboards, and you can add dashboards to a favorites list. You aren't limited to the number of dashboards that you can have in your AWS account. All dashboards are global. They are not Region-specific.
Opt-in Region propagation delay
You might have recently enabled an opt-in Region (Region that is disabled by default) for your account. If
so, your existing dashboards can take up to 24 hours to be available in that Region.
During this period, GetDashboard and ListDashboards
requests might return an access denied error. This does not indicate a problem with
your permissions. Because dashboards are global, you can view them from any other
enabled Region while propagation completes. Creating and updating dashboards in the
new Region works immediately.
The following procedure shows you
how to create a dashboard
from the CloudWatch console.
You can use the PutDashboard API operation
to create a dashboard
from the command line interface.
The API operation contains a JSON string
that defines your dashboard content.
For more information
about creating a dashboard
with the PutDashboard API operation,
see PutDashboard
in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.
Tip
If you're creating a new dashboard
with the PutDashboard API operation,
you can use the JSON string
from a dashboard
that already exists.
To create a dashboard from the console
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Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
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In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards, and then choose Create dashboard.
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In the Create new dashboard dialog box, enter a name for the dashboard, and then choose Create dashboard.
If you use the name CloudWatch-Default or CloudWatch-Default-
ResourceGroupName, the dashboard appears in the overview of the CloudWatch home page under Default Dashboard. For more information, see Getting started with CloudWatch automatic dashboards. -
In the Add to this dashboard dialog box, do one of the following:
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To add a graph to the dashboard, choose Line or Stacked area, and then choose Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metric(s) to graph, and then choose Create widget. If a metric doesn't appear in the dialog box because it hasn't published data in more than 14 days, you can add it manually. For more information, see Graph metrics manually on a CloudWatch dashboard.
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To add a number displaying a metric to the dashboard, choose Number, and then choose Configure. In the Add metric graph dialog box, select the metric(s) to graph, and then choose Create widget.
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To add a text block to the dashboard, choose Text, and then choose Configure. In the New text widget dialog box, for Markdown, format your text using Markdown, and then choose Create widget.
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(Optional) Choose Add widget, and then repeat step 4 to add another widget to the dashboard. You can repeat this step multiple times.
For each graph on the dashboard, there is an information icon at the upper right. Choose this icon to see the descriptions of the metrics in the graph.
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Choose Save dashboard.
