Dashboards

CloudWatch dashboards give you a single screen to view your system’s logs, metrics, and alarms. They help spot blind spots and understand your system before setting up perfect alarms. AWS provides automatic dashboards for key services, but you can build custom dashboards with widgets for metrics, logs, text, and more. You can add Log Insights queries for dynamic data and share dashboards, though sharing has some limitations.

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Major Learnings

•Dashboards show your system’s key metrics, logs, and alarms in one place for quick checks.
•You can use automatic dashboards or build custom ones with widgets for metrics, logs, and text.
•Adding Log Insights queries to dashboards helps track dynamic or complex log data easily.
•Dashboards can be shared, but features like Explorer widgets and Log Insights may not work for public or password sharing.

Next Steps

1.Start by exploring the automatic dashboards AWS provides for your main services.
2.Build a custom dashboard with widgets for your most important metrics and logs.
3.Add your most-used Log Insights queries to your dashboard for faster troubleshooting.
4.Test dashboard sharing and check which features are available for your team or stakeholders.