One of the biggest troubles when working with cloud architectures is understanding what's going on behind the scenes. The technology is no longer built with physical devices that you can get your hands on so pulling information out of the system is paramount to success. 

CloudWatch dashboards gives you visibility into what your resources are doing. being able to effectively use CloudWatch dashboards will give you such incredible insight into your architectures that not doing so might even be considered detrimental. 

And it's almost inexcusable not to at least give it a try, the creation system with the visual Wizard allows you to drag and drop these widget elements into a live dashboard. Allowing you to mix and match and change the sizes of anything that you desire. And once you understand what's important to you and your architectures you can make repeatable code that you can inject right into your cloud formation templates to automatically create these highly visual and extremely potent dashboards for every system you set up.

And heck if you don't even want to get your hands dirty, CloudWatch automatically sets up dashboards for you that can help you track some of the high-level systems within your services. You can go in and modify these automatically created dashboards to make them your own if you're not comfortable starting from scratch.

I guess the big thing I really want you to take away from this is that CloudWatch dashboards are so easy to use. That I want you to just go give it a try, and you might be surprised what kind of insights you'll gain by having all your information at the tips of your fingers. 

Well, that brings us to the end of this course. My name is Will Meadows and I'd like to thank you for spending your time here learning about CloudWatch Dashboards.  If you have any feedback, positive or negative, please contact us at support@cloudacademy.com, your feedback is greatly appreciated, thank you!