{"id":59587,"date":"2024-01-02T02:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=59587"},"modified":"2024-01-15T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:51:07","slug":"creating-cloudwatch-dashboards-using-custom-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/creating-cloudwatch-dashboards-using-custom-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating CloudWatch Dashboards using Custom Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is\u00a0 CloudWatch Dashboard<\/b><\/h2>\n

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those resources that are spread across different Regions. You can use CloudWatch dashboards to create customized views of the metrics and alarms for your AWS resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Problem Statement<\/b><\/h2>\n

How to monitor and get the statistics of the custom metrics of your applications and other metrics not provided by AWS by default !!<\/span><\/p>\n

Solution<\/b><\/p>\n

Create a Metric filter for the log group where the logs are being captured for the required data. Create a graph from that metric and add it to the Dashboard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steps to create a CloudWatch custom Dashboard<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  • Create a Metric filter<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Create a graph and add it to the Dashboard.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Create a metric filter for a log group.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    1. Go to Log Groups inside CloudWatch. Click on the Log group where the required data is being captured. Click on Metrics filters and Create a metric filter.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      \u00a02. Enter the pattern that you want to filter in the Filter Pattern field.<\/span><\/p>\n

      In the Test Pattern, leave it as Custom log data as shown below, and click <\/span>on Next.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      3. Enter the details; you can take reference from the below screenshot and click on Next<\/span><\/p>\n

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      4. In the next page, we need to review and confirm the metric filter by clicking on save changes<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Create a graph and add it to the Dashboard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Allow some time to get the traffic populated in that metric filter.<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Go to the metric filter which we created in the above steps. And click on Metric values as highlighted in the screenshot below.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        3. The page below will appear After clicking on the Metric highlighted above.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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        Configure the Statistics and other graph options and click \u201cAdd to dashboard\u201d as marked above.<\/span><\/p>\n

        4. Either select an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard as seen below.<\/span><\/p>\n

        Widget titles can be customized by entering the new title in the below option. <\/span>Click on Add to Dashboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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        5. After clicking on Add to dashboard, the page below will appear. Click on the save button and the dashboard will be created.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

        This blog demonstrates how to create a CloudWatch dashboard using the custom metric filters on the log groups. It helps to visualize the customized data that is being generated in the log groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        What is\u00a0 CloudWatch Dashboard Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those resources that are spread across different Regions. You can use CloudWatch dashboards to create customized views of the metrics and alarms for your AWS resources. Problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":261},"categories":[4682],"tags":[1266,5584,5585,5583],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60050,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59587\/revisions\/60050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}