Creating a dashboard in CloudWatch

In this recipe, we will create a dashboard in the CloudWatch console. Dashboards provide us with a single place to look into related metrics. We can create dashboards to group metrics based on their relevance, such as performance, security, networking, cost optimizations, and so on.

Getting ready

We'll need a working AWS account to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

We can create a CloudWatch dashboard as follows:

1. Go to the CloudWatch service in the console.
2. Click on Dashboards from the left sidebar.
3. Click on Create dashboard...