# Viewing the AWS Config Dashboard
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Use the **Dashboard** to see an overview of your resources, rules, conformance packs, and their compliance states and to visualize your AWS Config usage and success metrics with Amazon CloudWatch. This page helps you quickly identify the top resources in your AWS account, the conformance packs with the lowest level of compliance in your AWS account, what rules or resources are noncompliant in your AWS account, what traffic is driving your AWS Config usage, and key metrics for success and failure that have occured in your workflows.

**To use the AWS Config Dashboard**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Config console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/config/home](https://console.aws.amazon.com/config/home).

1. In the left navigation pane, choose **Dashboard**.

**Contents**
+ [Compliance and Resource Inventory](#aws-config-dashboard-compliance)
+ [AWS Config Usage and Success Metrics](#aws-config-dashboard-metrics)

## Compliance and Resource Inventory
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After setup, AWS Config starts recording your specified resources and evaluating them against your rules. It may take a few minutes for AWS Config to display your resources, rules, conformance packs, and their compliance states.

**Conformance packs by compliance score**  
*Conformance packs by compliance score* displays up to 10 of your conformance packs with the lowest compliance score. A compliance score is the percentage of the number of compliant rule-resource combinations in a conformance pack compared to the number of total possible rule-resource combinations in the conformance pack.  
This metric provides you with a high-level view of the compliance state of your conformance packs, and can be used to identify, investigate, and understand the level of compliance in your conformance packs. You can use the compliance score to track remediation progress, perform comparisons across different sets of requirements, and see the impact a specific change or deployment has on a conformance pack.  
To view the deployment status, compliance score, compliance score timeline, and rules for a conformance pack in a detailed view, choose the name of the conformance pack under **Conformance pack**.

**Compliance status**  
*Compliance status* displays the number of your compliant and noncompliant rules and compliant and noncompliant resources. Resources are compliant or noncompliant based on an evaluation of the rule associated with it. If a resource does not follow the rule's specifications, the resource and the rule are flagged as noncompliant.  
To view the list of noncompliant rules and resources, choose **Noncompliant rule(s)** or **Noncompliant resource(s)**.

**Rules by noncompliant resources**  
*Rules by noncompliant resources* displays your top noncompliant rules in descending order by the number of resources. Choose a rule to view its details, parameters, and the resources in scope for that specific rule.  
For a comprehensive list of noncompliant rules, choose **View all noncompliant rules**.

**Resource inventory**  
*Resource inventory* displays the total number of resources that AWS Config is recording in descending order by the number of resources, and the count of each resource type in your AWS account. To open all resources for a resource type, choose that resource type to go to its **Resources inventory** page.  
You can use the dropdown list to indicate which resource totals you want to view. By default, it is set to view **All resources**, but you can change it to AWS resources, Third-party resources, or Custom resources. 

**Note**  
The **Evaluate your AWS resource configuration using Config rules** message may appear on the **Dashboard** for the following reasons:  
You haven't set up AWS Config Rules for your AWS account. You can choose **Add rule** to go to the **Rules** page.
AWS Config is still evaluating your resources against your rules. You can refresh the page to see the latest evaluation results.
 AWS Config evaluated your resources against your rules and did not find any resources in scope. You can specify the resources for AWS Config to record in the **Settings** page. For more information, see [Recording AWS Resources with AWS ConfigConsiderations](select-resources.md).

## AWS Config Usage and Success Metrics
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You can use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards in the AWS Config console to visualize your AWS Config usage and success metrics.

For each dashboard, you can do the following:
+ Adjust the dashboard time range to display data from the past **3 Hours**, **1 Day**, or **1 Week**.
+ Choose the **Calender icon**, to enter a custom time range: either a **Relative** time for a past specified amount of time or an **Absolute** time range between two dates.
+ You can change the time format to display dashboard data in **UTC** (Coordinated Universal Time) or **Local time zone** (the time zone specified as your local time zone in the operating system of your device).
+ Use the **Drop arrow** next the **Refresh icon** to specify how often the data in a dashboard should refresh, or to turn off the automatic refresh. Choose **Off**, **10 Seconds**, **1 Minute**, **2 Minutes**, **5 Minutes**, or **15 Minutes** to change the refresh internal.
+ Choose **More options** (the vertical ellipsis menu) to add the AWS Config usage metrics or the AWS Config success metrics you are currently viewing in the AWS Config Dashboard to the CloudWatch console. This opens a new tab in the CloudWatch console that allows you to create a new custom dashboard in CloudWatch with information copied from your current AWS Config usage metrics or AWS Config success metrics.

If you want to perform additional analyses of these metrics with CloudWatch, choose **Metrics** in the left navigation pane of the CloudWatch console and then choose **AWS/Config**. For more information on what you can do from the CloudWatch console, see [Using Amazon CloudWatch dashboards](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html) and [Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/working_with_metrics.html) in the *CloudWatch User Guide*.

**AWS Config Usage Metrics**      
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You can select the resource type that you want to view by using the dropdown list. By default, it is set to view all resource types.

**AWS Config Success Metrics**      
[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/viewing-the-aws-config-dashboard.html)