Adding an alarm to a CloudWatch dashboard - Amazon CloudWatch
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Adding an alarm to a CloudWatch dashboard

To add a single alarm, including its graph, to a dashboard

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, select the alarm to add, and then choose Add to Dashboard.

  3. Select a dashboard, choose a widget type (Line, Stacked area, or Number), and then choose Add to dashboard.

  4. To see your alarm on the dashboard, choose Dashboards in the navigation pane and select the dashboard.

  5. (Optional) To temporarily make an alarm graph larger, select the graph.

  6. (Optional) To change the widget type, hover over the title of the graph, choose Widget actions, and then choose Widget type.