# Adding an alarm to a CloudWatch dashboard
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**To add a single alarm, including its graph, to a dashboard**

1. Open the CloudWatch console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Alarms**, select the alarm to add, and then choose **Add to Dashboard**.

1. Select a dashboard, choose a widget type (**Line**, **Stacked area**, or **Number**), and then choose **Add to dashboard**.

1. To see your alarm on the dashboard, choose **Dashboards** in the navigation pane and select the dashboard.

1. (Optional) To temporarily make an alarm graph larger, select the graph.

1. (Optional) To change the widget type, hover over the title of the graph, choose **Widget actions**, and then choose **Widget type**.