# Enable the Highlights dashboard with the CloudTrail console
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Enable the Highlights dashboard to view an at-a-glance overview of the Amazon activity collected by the event data stores in your account. The Highlights dashboard is managed by CloudTrail and includes widgets that are relevant to your account. The widgets shown on the Highlights dashboard are unique to each account. These widgets could surface detected abnormal activity or anomalies. For example, your Highlights dashboard could include the **Total cross-account access widget**, which shows if there is an increase in abnormal cross-account activity.

CloudTrail updates the Highlights dashboard every 6 hours. The dashboard shows the last 24 hours of data from the last update.

**Note**  
You can only enable the Highlights dashboard for event data stores that exist in your account.  
You cannot set a refresh schedule for the Highlights dashboard, or add or remove widgets.

## To enable the Highlights dashboard
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Use the following procedure to enable the Highlights dashboard.

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the CloudTrail console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudtrail/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/cloudtrail/).

1.  In the left navigation pane, under **Lake**, choose **Dashboard**. 

1. Choose the **Highlights** tab.

1. Because running queries incurs CloudTrail charges, CloudTrail asks you to review the cost information before enabling the **Highlights** dashboard. For information about CloudTrail pricing, see [Amazon CloudTrail Pricing](https://www.amazonaws.cn/cloudtrail/pricing/).

   Choose **Agree and enable Highlights** to enable the Highlights dashboard.

1. For **Permissions**, choose the event data stores that you want to apply permissions to. CloudTrail requires permissions to run queries on your event data stores and refresh the dashboard on your behalf. To provide permissions, CloudTrail attaches a default resource-based policy to each event data store selected in this step to allow CloudTrail to run queries on the event data store. CloudTrail attaches a resource-based policy to the dashboard to allow CloudTrail to refresh the dashboard every 6 hours.

   You can modify the resource-based policy for an event data store from its details page. You can modify the resource-based policy for a dashboard by selecting **Edit policy** from the **Actions** menu for the dashboard.

1. Choose **Confirm**.

 When you enable the **Highlights** dashboard, termination protection is automatically enabled. Termination protection protects a dashboard from being accidentally deleted. You'll need to disable termination protection, if you want to disable the dashboard.