AWS Cloud Watch Dashboard using AWS Cloud Formation

Question

Is it possible to create a dashboard using AWS Cloud Formation? If yes, how? If no, can I do it using AWS CLI?

Answer 1

Hai. It was not possible before. Well, you could alter dashboards using the console as much as you want, but programmatic modification and creation was not a feature. 

But in the year 2017 AWS announced additional features using which you can modify dashboards using programmatic access and cloudformation support. Four new API' were introduced:

• ListDashboard - Fetch a list of all dashboards within an account, or a subset that share a common prefix.
• GetDashboard - Fetch details for a single dashboard.
• PutDashboard -  Create a new dashboard or update an existing one.
• DeleteDashboard - Delete one or more dashboards.

To know more refer cloudformation support by AWS CloudWatch Dashboards.