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Curated CloudWatch dashboards
The updated CloudWatch data source ships with pre-configured dashboards for five of the most popular AWS services:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2, - Amazon Elastic Block Store
Amazon EBS, - AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda, - Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs, and - Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon RDS.
To import curatedd dashboards:
On the configuration page of your CloudWatch data source, click the Dashboards tab.
Click Import for the dashboard you would like to use.
In case you want to customize a dashboard, we recommend that you save it under a different name. Otherwise the dashboard will be overwritten when a new version of the dashboard is released.
