Dashboards

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The following sections describe how to install the Amazon Web Services: Dashboards PowerPack and a description of each dashboard that is included in the PowerPack:

Installing the Amazon Web Services: Dashboards PowerPack

To view the Amazon Web Services dashboards in SL1, you must first install the Amazon Web Services: Dashboards PowerPack.

The AWS dashboards have a default Access Control setting of "Private", which means they can be viewed only by an administrator. For more information about dashboard access settings, see the section on Creating and Editing Dashboards.

To install the PowerPack:

  1. Go to the PowerPack Manager page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  2. Click the Actions button, then select Install PowerPack. The Imported PowerPacks modal page appears.

  1. Use the search filter in the PowerPack Name column heading to locate the PowerPack you want to install. To do so, enter text to match, including special characters, and the Imported PowerPacks modal page displays only PowerPacks that have a matching name.

  1. Click the lightning-bolt icon () for the PowerPack that you want to install.

  1. The Install PowerPack modal page appears. To install the PowerPack, click Install.

  1. The PowerPack now appears in the PowerPack Manager page. The contents of the PowerPack are automatically installed in your SL1 System.

AWS Account Billing Dashboard

The AWS Account Billing Dashboard displays:

  • A pie chart that shows the estimated billing amount for each service over the selected time period.
  • A performance graph that shows the estimated billing amount for the selected service, over time. To select a service, click on the pie-chart segment for that service.
  • A table that shows the currently active AWS events.
  • A time span selector that controls the amount of data shown in the pie chart and the performance graph.
  • An organization selector that limits the data in the pie chart and performance graph to include only instances associated with the selected organizations.

AWS Health Status Dashboard

The AWS Health Status Dashboard displays:

  • A traffic light widget that displays a list of AWS services. To populate the other widgets in this dashboard, select a service.

  • A tear-sheet widget that displays information and links for the selected service.
  • A service health widget, that displays log messages about the health of the service.
  • A table that displays currently active events for the service.
  • An organization selector and a device group selector that control which services are shown in the traffic light widget.

Configuring the AWS Dashboards

The AWS Account Billing and AWS Health Status dashboards must have their (base) Custom Table widgets manually configured to filter only AWS service-specific events. To do this:

  1. Go to Dashboards > Classic Dashboards and select AWS Account Billing, or in the SL1 classic user interface go to Dashboards and select AWS Account Billing.

  1. Click the down-arrow in the upper-right of the AWS Events widget, and then select Configure from the Options menu. The Widget Configuration modal page appears.

  1. In the Device Class filter, enter "AWS" to show only AWS device classes.

  1. Control-click on the following items in the Device Class field:
  • AWS DDB Service

  • AWS EC2 Service
  • AWS ELB Service
  • AWS EMR Service
  • AWS RDS Service
  • AWS SNS Service
  • AWS SQS Service
  • AWS Storage Gateway Service
  1. Click the Save button.
  2. Repeat steps 1 - 5 for the AWS Health Status dashboard.

AWS Service Instance Performance Dashboards

The Amazon Web Services: Dashboards PowerPack includes a dashboard for each service type. Each dashboard displays performance metrics for instances of an AWS service. The following dashboards are included:

  • AWS Application ELB Performance
  • AWS Classic ELB Performance
  • AWS DDB Performance

  • AWS EBS Performance
  • AWS EC2 Performance
  • AWS EMR Performance
  • AWS Network ELB Performance
  • AWS RDS Performance
  • AWS SQS Performance
  • AWS Storage Gateway Performance

Each performance dashboard includes:

  • A traffic light widget that shows the status of all instances for the service.

  • Four performance graphs that show applicable metrics when you select an instance from the traffic light widget.
  • A time span selector that controls the amount of data shown in the performance graphs.
  • An organization selector and device group selector that control which instances are shown in the traffic light widget.