CloudWatch Dashboard

Question

Hi All

Is there a way to merge 2 separate CloudWatch Dashboards into one programmatically?

I have one dashboard that gets created through a CloudFormation stack and another through a different stack. There really is not an option to insert both in the same stack so I was wondering if  there is any option that I can export the 2 dashboards (which I have been able to do ) and merge into a single JSON (struggling here - how to do that? Any simple API that allows us to do it) and create a new one.

Thanks

Accepted Answer

Yes, there is.  It's however not a single command.

If we look at the available CLI commands, you'll need:

- get-dashboard: you retrieve the dashboard in JSON format. You are interested in the "widgets" array. You apply this API to dashboard1 and dashboard2
 - Now use your preferred method to extract the widgets element from the DashboardBody of dashboard1
 - Use your preferred method to inject these widgets into the DashboardBody of dashboard2 (under the widgets element of course)
 - put-dashboard: to create a new dashboard or update an existing one if you give it a name of an existing dashboard

Please see:

- [Dashboard Body Structure and Syntax](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/CloudWatch-Dashboard-Body-Structure.html)
 - [CW CLI commands](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudwatch/index.html)

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