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feature: links to AWS Dashboards #104

Closed strowi closed 3 years ago

strowi commented 3 years ago

Hi,

looking at these grafana-dashboards i often find myself wanting to check/modify/... the resources etc. directly in aws. How about adding the respective links on your dashboards?

E.g.: Dasboard: AWS EC2 Link: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home Not sure though if this works for all dashboards..

Maybe those can even be constructed by adding the {{region}} etc..?

regards, strowi

jangaraj commented 3 years ago

Thanks. I would say it is possible, but generic implementation is not easy. The main problem is that dashboard may show CloudWatch data from the AWS account, where Grafana user doesn't have AWS console access or where their current AWS console session is not opened. That may lead to user confusions - why Grafana dashboard data (e.g. EC2 instance IDs) are not the same as data in the AWS console. So I wouldn't prefer any AWS Console links in dashboards.