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Joshua O. Berkoh
Joshua O. Berkoh

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STEPS IN CREATING DASHBOARDS IN CLOUDWATCH

CloudWatch is an amazon service that is used to monitor your AWS resources. To be able to use CloudWatch effectively, you should have a resource in place, for instance, an Ec2 instance. In this demonstration, we will be creating a dashboard to monitor our Ec2 instance.

The steps involved are as follows

  • Log in to your AWS console

  • Use the search bar to search for CloudWatch and click to open the CloudWatch console.

A shot of searching CloudWatch in the search bar

  • On the left pane of the console, click on the dashboard

click on Dashboard on the left pane

  • Click on create Dashboard to create a new Dashboard

create Dashboard

  • Name your dashboard and click on create Dashboard.

Name your Dashboard

  • Select a widget to add to your widget. (for the purposes of demonstration we will be selecting pie as our widget.

Select widget

  • Select the data source for your Widget. ( for demonstration purposes we will be using metrics)

Widget data source

  • Then go ahead to select any of the metrics. ( I will be selecting Ec2 for this demonstration and go ahead to select Pre instance metrics)

Select any of the metric

  • Select any instance as your Widget data source.

Select any of the Instance

  • Click on create Widget and save Dashboard after that.

Final look of our dashboard

In the Next writeup, I am going to explain the use alarms in cloudWatch and how to set them up.

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