CloudWatch Metrics Browser
The CloudWatch view (the monitoring service in StackPort) is read-only and covers dashboards and alarms.
Dashboards
Section titled “Dashboards”The dashboard list shows each dashboard’s name, last modified time and size. Opening a dashboard renders its widgets in a two-column grid:
- Metric widgets become line charts, or bar charts when the widget uses the bar view.
- Text widgets show their markdown source as text.
- Other widget types and metric math expressions are not drawn yet, and say so in place.
Pick a time range of 15 minutes, 1, 3, 12 or 24 hours (3 hours by default). Data is fetched at a 60-second period. Fetching metric data is a read, so dashboards keep working in read-only mode.
Alarms
Section titled “Alarms”The alarm list shows each metric alarm’s name, state (OK, ALARM or INSUFFICIENT_DATA), metric, condition (for example “Average CPUUtilization > 80”) and when its state last changed. Opening an alarm shows the state reason (highlighted when in alarm), namespace, metric, condition, evaluation periods, description and dimensions.
Deep link to a dashboard with ?dashboard=<name>.