Adding a text widget to a CloudWatch dashboard - Amazon CloudWatch
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Adding a text widget to a CloudWatch dashboard

To add a text widget to a dashboard

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Dashboards, and then choose a dashboard.

  3. Choose the + symbol.

  4. Choose Text.

  5. For Markdown, add and format your text using Markdown and choose Create widget.

  6. To make the text widget transparent, choose Transparent background.

  7. Choose Save dashboard.