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Dashboards - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Dashboards

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- [Instructor] While CloudWatch alarms provide a way to get notified about critical metrics of your AWS resources, Dashboards provide a single view for selected metrics and alarms. This allows you to assess the health of your resources and applications across one or more regions. Dashboards are global and there's no limit on how many you can create. To get started, from the CloudWatch management console click Dashboards on the left navigation pane, then click the button Create Dashboard. We'll start with a name, let's call this one as EC2 Monitoring Dashboard. The Dashboard name cannot have spaces so it automatically adds hyphens between the words. Next, I'll click create Dashboard. The Dashboard has now been created, it's time to add Widgets and there are five types of Widgets that we can add, Line, Stacked Area, Number, Text and Query Results. Let's start with Number. I'll highlight the Widget type and then click…

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