Set of AWS Grafana dashboards published on grafana.com - 20k+ downloads.

Doc:

• Cloudwatch datasource configuration
• Grafana doc

Feel free to create pull request for additional AWS resources/printscreens/...

Please set your dashboard variables (Region, ...) after dashboard import. Empty dashboard variables are reason of initial "Unable to call AWS API" or "Metric request error" error.

Import all Monitoring Artist AWS dashboards in one go (example script, bash/curl/jq required):

#!/bin/bash
### Please edit grafana_* variables to match your Grafana setup:
grafana_host="http://localhost:3000"
grafana_cred="admin:admin"
grafana_datasource="cloudwatch"
ds=(1516 677 139 674 590 659 758 623 617 551 653 969 650 644 607 593 707 575 1519 581 584 2969 8050);
for d in "${ds[@]}"; do
  echo -n "Processing $d: "
  j=$(curl -s -k -u "$grafana_cred" $grafana_host/api/gnet/dashboards/$d | jq .json)
  curl -s -k -u "$grafana_cred" -XPOST -H "Accept: application/json" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"dashboard\":$j,\"overwrite\":true, \
        \"inputs\":[{\"name\":\"DS_CLOUDWATCH\",\"type\":\"datasource\", \
        \"pluginId\":\"cloudwatch\",\"value\":\"$grafana_datasource\"}]}" \
    $grafana_host/api/dashboards/import; echo ""
done

Use AWS Policy Generator, which fits your needs. Example of minimal IAM role for Grafana (CloudWatch + EC2 metrics):

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AllowReadingMetricsFromCloudWatch",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowReadingTagsFromEC2",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Devops Monitoring Expert, who loves monitoring systems and cutting/bleeding edge technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AWS, Google GCP, Terraform, Lambda, Zabbix, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, Sysdig,...

Summary:

• 2000+ GitHub stars
• 15 000+ Grafana dashboard downloads
• 1 000 000+ Docker image pulls

Professional devops / monitoring / consulting services: