Editing or deleting an Internet Monitor monitor - Amazon CloudWatch
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Editing or deleting an Internet Monitor monitor

Using the Action menu, you can edit or delete a monitor in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor after you create it. For example, you can edit a monitor to do the following:

  • Change the percentage of application traffic to monitor

  • Set or update the city-networks maximum limit

  • Change health event thresholds for availability or performance scores

  • Add or remove resources

  • Enable or update publishing events to Amazon S3

You can also delete a monitor. Note that you can't change the name of a monitor after you create it.

To make changes to a monitor or delete a monitor, use one of the following procedures.

To edit a monitor
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, under Network monitoring, choose Internet Monitor.

  3. Choose your monitor, and then choose the Action menu.

  4. Choose Update monitor.

  5. Make the desired updates. For example, to change the percentage of traffic to monitor, under Application traffic to monitor, select or enter a percentage.

  6. Choose Update.

To delete a monitor
  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, under Network monitoring, choose Internet Monitor.

  3. Choose your monitor, and then choose the Action menu.

  4. Choose Disable.

  5. Choose the Action menu again, and then choose Delete.

For more information about the options that you can update, see the following: