open AWS Management Console

Click Services

Click Management & Governance

Click CloudWatch

Now CloudWatch window is open. Click NEXT to continue

Expand "Metrics", if it is not yet expanded. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Click on "All Metrics" under CloudWatch > Metrics. **Note:** Make sure that before configuring the metrics you should have an EC2 instance. Metrics are variables that are monitored, and data points are the value of that variable over time. Metrics are uniquely defined by a name, namespace, and zero or more dimensions.

Click NEXT and then select “EC2”. You can select any resource that you want to monitor. **This skill meant to monitor EC2 Instance.**

Select " Per-Instance Metrics", This will enable the instance metrics to be monitored.

In the search box type your Instance ID and press Enter. **Note**: Get instance ID from EC2 console. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Select "CPU Utilization" for your specific Instance ID. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Select "Network IN" to monitor the traffic incoming to instance. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Select " Network Out" to monitor the outgoing traffic from the instance. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

To change the monitoring pattern from __line graph__ to __numbers__, In the dropdown box select **Number**. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Go to " Action"

Select "Add to dashboard - Improved" To add these metrics in to Dash Board.

Click on " Create new"

Give a proper name to "Dashboard". Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Click "Create" To Create the Dashboard. Once done, click Next on Supervity instruction widget.

Click Add to dashboard

Check your dashboard, its ready. This monitors the values you selected. Once done, click Close on Supervity instruction widget.