Understanding Custom Dashboards

1. 1. 1. A. When you create a new dashboard, it is empty and you can click on edit to start adding tiles.

   2. 1. B. Click on Edit Dashboard

   

2. 1. 2. A. Click on Add to add either a visualisation text, mark down or button

   2. 2. B. Visualization - helps you see the data and add filters on it with many dimensions

   

3. 1. 3. A. Cloud Cost management has a separate dashboard section

   2. 3. B. These are all the supported explores in cloud cost management

   3. 3. C. Click on AWS to create a tile with AWS data. After you click on it, the parameters of the visualisation can be configured.

   

4. 4. Type in text field

   

5. 5. These are all the supported fields in AWS Explore.

   

6. 6. CCM's AWS Explore has a quick start section that helps you explore the data from a prebuilt analysis

   

7. 7. Click on Top 20 AWS Accounts, this will show the cost of each AWS account you are using

   

8. 1. 8. A. After the data load successfully is shown in the form of a visualisation and you can change the way the data is landed according to any table or chart of your choice

   2. 8. B. Click on Table to view the data in tabular format

   

9. 1. 9. A. Now that you have the data, you can apply many filters on it to see the data that is best suited for your use case

   2. 9. B. Click on +Filter to add a filter

   

10. 1. 10. A. It will show you all the fields

    2. 10. B. Click on Close

    

11. 1. 11. A. Click on Visualization

    2. 11. B. Select any field to see the dimensions it supports. Each dimension serves as a data point.

    3. 11. C. For example, here bill type can be selected to see the bill type associated with each account. This will put another entry in the data for bill type.

    4. 11. D. Click on Data to see the new data and then run the dashboard

    

12. 1. 12. A. Click on Run - this will show new data with the recent changes

    2. 12. B. Now, the dimension will be shown in the visualisation

    

13. 1. 13. A. For any dimension, you have the option to select it as a filter.

    2. 13. B. When you click on the filter button, the dimension gets added as a filter and you can enter the filter value

    3. 13. C. Clicking on info icon will give all the information about the dimension - what it does and how it translates to official AWS Terminology

    4. 13. D. Information about the dimension

    

14. 14. Click on Save to save this entire tile - with all the dimensions and filters

    

15. 15. This tile can be seen on dashboard and can be edited. You can change the way in which visualization renders - either in form of bar graph, histogram etc. so that it is easier to read