Amazon CloudWatch | Dashboards

Question 1

How long can I view my Alarm history?

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Answer 1

Alarm history is available for 14 days. To view your alarm history, log in to CloudWatch in the AWS Management Console, choose Alarms from the menu at left, select your alarm, and click the History tab in the lower panel. There you will find a history of any state changes to the alarm as well as any modifications to the alarm configuration.

Question 2

What is CloudWatch Dashboards?

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Answer 2

Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards allow you to create, customize, interact with, and save graphs of AWS resources and custom metrics.

Question 3

What can I do with CloudWatch dashboards?

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Answer 3

You can use CloudWatch Dashboards to monitor your applications and resources to quickly identify issues that might be impacting the health of your applications. You can save and revisit dashboards, add multiple graphs, or add text widgets into a dashboard to embed links and comments. For example, you can include graphs of your resource and application metrics to see when resource health problems might be impacting your applications. You can also view metrics from multiple regions on the same page.

Question 4

How do I get started with CloudWatch Dashboards?

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Answer 4

To get started, visit the Amazon CloudWatch Console and select “Dashboards”. Click the “Create Dashboard” button.

Question 5

Do the dashboards support auto refresh?

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Answer 5

Yes. Dashboards will auto refresh while you have them open.