Metrics Explorer is a tag-based tool that enables you to filter, aggregate, and visualize your metrics by tags and resource properties to enhance observability for your services. Metrics Explorer visualizations are dynamic, so if a matching resource is created after you create a metrics explorer widget and add it to a CloudWatch dashboard, the new resource automatically appears in the explorer widget.
Read all about Metrics Explorer here.
CloudWatch
.Metrics
, click Explorer
.Your screen should look similar to the screenshot shown below.
(Empty Explorer)
Metrics Explorer allows you to chose from Generic Templates (Lambda and EC2) or Service Based Templates, where you can chose which metric you want to add to a dashboard based on the service selected.
Empty Explorer
and select the lambda by runtime
generic template.Metrics Explorer helps to bridge the gap between your resources and tags
to enhance observability for your services. It provides quick and easy mechanism to filter, aggregate, and visualize your metrics by tags and resource properties.
The visualizations you see here are dynamic, so if a matching resource is created after you create a metrics explorer widget and add it to a CloudWatch dashboard, the new resource automatically appears in the explorer widget.
RDS
.1h
in the top right.From
search bar, select the aws:cloudformation:stack-name
, then click Services
.This allows you to visualize all the metrics for all RDS DB instances that have a stack name = “Services” as their tag in the past hour.
Your screen should look similar to the screenshot below.
Add to Dashboard
button in the top right corner.Create new
, then enter RDS-Services-Stack
as the dashboard name. Click the small checkmark next to the textbox to save.Add to dashboard
.Dashboards
, click RDS-Service-Stack
.You should be able to see your newly created dashboard.
You can also create a new dashboard by completing the following steps:
Dashboards
.Create dashboard
button.Metrics-Explorer-Widget
, then click create dashboard
.`Explorer widget
, then click create
.You can now add any resource and filter it by tag/resource property and directly save this dashboard.
This concludes the Metrics module.