# Disable an Amazon S3 Storage Lens dashboard
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You can disable an Amazon S3 Storage Lens dashboard from the Amazon S3 console. Disabling a dashboard prevents it from generating metrics in the future. A disabled dashboard still retains its configuration information, so that it can be easily resumed when re-enabled. A disabled dashboard retains its historical data until it's no longer available for queries.

# Using the S3 console
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Use the following steps to disable an Amazon S3 Storage Lens dashboard on the Amazon S3 console.

**To disable an Amazon S3 Storage Lens dashboard**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/).

1. In the left navigation pane, choose **Storage Lens**, **Dashboards**.

1. In the **Dashboards** list, choose the dashboard that you want to disable, and then choose **Disable** at the top of the list.

1. On the confirmation page, confirm that you want to disable the dashboard by entering the name of dashboard in the text field, and then choose **Confirm**.