• 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). 

# Working with Session Manager
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You can use the Amazon Systems Manager console, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console, or the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to start sessions that connect you to the managed nodes your system administrator has granted you access to using Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Depending on your permissions, you can also view information about sessions, resume inactive sessions that haven't timed out, and end sessions. After a session is established, it is not affected by IAM role session duration. For information about limiting session duration with Session Manager, see [Specify an idle session timeout value](session-preferences-timeout.md) and [Specify maximum session duration](session-preferences-max-timeout.md).

For more information about sessions, see [What is a session?](session-manager.md#what-is-a-session)

**Topics**
+ [Install the Session Manager plugin for the Amazon CLI](session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.md)
+ [Start a session](session-manager-working-with-sessions-start.md)
+ [End a session](session-manager-working-with-sessions-end.md)
+ [View session history](session-manager-working-with-view-history.md)