# Removing a service from appearing in the CloudWatch cross-service dashboard
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You can prevent a service's metrics from appearing in the cross-service dashboard. This helps you focus your cross-service dashboard on the services you most want to monitor.

If you remove a service from the cross-service dashboard, the alarms for that service still appear in the views of your alarms.

**To remove a service's metrics from the cross-service dashboard**

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

   The home page appears.

1. At the top of the page, under **Overview**, choose the service you want to remove.

   The view changes to show metrics from only that service.

1. Choose **Actions**, then clear the check box next to **Show on cross service dashboard**.