• The Amazon Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Creating OpsItems manually (PowerShell)
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The following procedure describes how to create an OpsItem by using Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell. 

**To create an OpsItem using Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell**

1. Open Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell and run the following command to specify your credentials. 

   ```
   Set-AWSCredentials –AccessKey {{key-name}} –SecretKey {{key-name}}
   ```

1. Run the following command to set the Amazon Web Services Region for your PowerShell session.

   ```
   Set-DefaultAWSRegion -Region {{Region}}
   ```

1. Run the following command to create a new OpsItem. Replace each {{example resource placeholder}} with your own information. This command specifies a Systems Manager Automation runbook for remediating this OpsItem. 

   ```
   $opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
   $opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
   $opsItem.Value = '[{\"automationId\":\"{{runbook_name}}\",\"automationType\":\"AWS::SSM::Automation\"}]'
   $newHash = @{" /aws/automations"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
   
   New-SSMOpsItem `
       -Title "{{title}}" `
       -Description "{{description}}" `
       -Priority {{priority_number}} `
       -Source {{Amazon_service}} `
       -OperationalData $newHash
   ```

   If successful, the command outputs the ID of the new OpsItem.

The following example specifies the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an impaired Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance.

```
$opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
$opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
$opsItem.Value = '[{\"arn\":\"arn:aws-cn:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/i-1234567890abcdef0\"}]'
$newHash = @{" /aws/resources"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
New-SSMOpsItem -Title "EC2 instance disk full still" -Description "Log clean up may have failed which caused the disk to be full" -Priority 2 -Source ec2 -OperationalData $newHash
```