Viewing the cross-service CloudWatch dashboard - Amazon CloudWatch
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Viewing the cross-service CloudWatch dashboard

You can switch to the Cross-service dashboard screen and interact with dashboards for all of the Amazon services that you're using. The CloudWatch Console displays your dashboards in alphabetical order and displays one or two key metrics from each service.

Note

If you're using five or more Amazon services, the CloudWatch Console won't display the Cross-service dashboard on the Overview screen.

To view the Cross-service dashboard

  1. Open the CloudWatch console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudwatch/.

    You're directed to the Overview screen.

  2. From the Overview screen, select the dropdown that reads Overview, and then choose Cross service dashboard.

    You're directed to the Cross service dashboard screen.

  3. (Optional) If you're using the original interface, scroll to the section Cross-service dashboard, and then choose View Cross-service dashboard.

    You're directed to the Cross-service dashboard screen.

  4. You can focus on a particular service in two ways:

    1. To see more key metrics for a service, choose its name from the list at the top of the screen, where Cross service dashboard is currently shown. Or, you can choose View Service dashboard next to the service name.

      An automatic dashboard for that service is displayed, showing more metrics for that service. Additionally, for some services, the bottom of the service dashboard displays resources related to that service. You can choose one of those resources to that service console and focus further on that resource.

    2. To see all the alarms related to a service, choose the button on the right of the screen next to that service name. The text on this button indicates how many alarms you have created in this service, and whether any are in the ALARM state.

      When the alarms are displayed, multiple alarms that have similar settings (such as dimensions, threshold, or period) may be shown in a single graph.

      You can then view details about an alarm and see the alarm history. To do so, hover on the alarm graph, and choose the actions icon, View in alarms.

      The alarms view appears in a new browser tab, displaying a list of your alarms, along with details about the chosen alarm. To see the history for this alarm, choose the History tab.

  5. You can focus on resources in a particular resource group. To do so, choose the resource group from the list at the top of the page where All resources is displayed.

    For more information, see Viewing a CloudWatch dashboard for a resource group.

  6. To change the time range shown in all graphs and alarms currently displayed, select the range you want next to Time range at the top of the screen. Choose custom to select from more time range options than those displayed by default.

  7. Alarms are always refreshed once a minute. To refresh the view, choose the refresh icon (two curved arrows) at the top right of the screen. To change the automatic refresh rate for items on the screen other than alarms, choose the down arrow next to the refresh icon and choose the refresh rate you want. You can also choose to turn off automatic refresh.