CloudWatch Dashboards with Tags

Automatically tag AWS resources to enable automated CloudWatch dashboard creation for monitoring and observability.

Overview

CloudWatch dashboards can be automatically created and updated based on resource tags to display Golden Signals metrics (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation). TagOps can automatically apply dashboard tags to your resources, ensuring they are consistently included in automated dashboard creation workflows.

What TagOps Can Do

TagOps can automatically tag AWS resources with the tags required for automated CloudWatch dashboard creation:

  • Automatic Tagging: TagOps rules automatically apply dashboard tags like AutoDashboard: True to resources when they are created or discovered
  • Conditional Tagging: Create rules to tag only specific resources (e.g., production resources, critical services, or resources matching certain criteria)
  • Service-Specific Tagging: Tag supported services (RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Auto Scaling, SNS) with dashboard tags based on your monitoring requirements
  • Consistent Coverage: Ensure all resources that should be monitored have the required tags, preventing gaps in observability
  • Environment-Based Tagging: Use different tag values for different environments to enable separate dashboard configurations (e.g., AutoDashboard: Production, AutoDashboard: Development)
  • Application-Based Tagging: Tag resources with application identifiers to group related resources in dashboards

Example TagOps Rule

Create a TagOps rule to automatically tag resources for CloudWatch dashboard creation:

  • Condition: Resource type is lambda:function and tag Environment equals Production
  • Action: Add tag AutoDashboard: True

TagOps will automatically apply these tags to resources, which can then be used by automated CloudWatch dashboard solutions to create and update dashboards displaying Golden Signals metrics (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) for your resources.

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