Amazon CloudWatch provides a customizable dashboard inside a web console. It can display a set of critical metrics together. You can create multiple dashboards, where each dashboard can focus on providing a distinct view of your environment. You can also create a custom dashboard to view and monitor the selected AWS resources from the same or different regions. It provides a way to get a single view of critical resource metrics and alarms for observing the performance and health of the environment. It gives you the freedom to add, remove, move, resize, and rename the graphs, as well as change the refresh interval of selected graphs in a dashboard. The following figure shows a screenshot of the default dashboard view:
Figure 7.13: CloudWatch Dashboard