Dashboards

- [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 Configure. … This shows the available name spaces. …