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Deployment - Cloud Intelligence Dashboards on AWS
Deployment

Deployment

Deployment

Example
CloudFormation
Note

Prerequisite: To install this dashboard using CloudFormation, you need to install Foundational Dashboards CFN with version v4.0.0 or above as described here

  1. Log in to your Data Collection Account.

  2. Click the Launch Stack button below to open the pre-populated stack template in your CloudFormation.

    Launch Stack button

  3. You can change Stack name for your template if you wish.

  4. Leave Parameters values as it is.

  5. Review the configuration and click Create stack.

  6. You will see the stack will start in CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. Once complete, the stack will show CREATE_COMPLETE status

  7. You can check the stack output for dashboard URLs.

    Note

    Troubleshooting: If you see error "No export named cid-CidExecArn found" during stack deployment, make sure you have completed prerequisite steps.

Command Line

Alternative method to install dashboards is the cid-cmd tool.

  1. Log in to your Data Collection Account.

  2. Open up a command-line interface with permissions to run API requests in your AWS account. We recommend to use CloudShell.

  3. In your command-line interface run the following command to download and install the CID CLI tool:

    pip3 install --upgrade cid-cmd

    If using CloudShell, use the following instead:

    sudo yum install python3.11-pip -y
python3.11 -m pip install -U cid-cmd

  4. In your command-line interface run the following command to deploy the dashboard:

    cid-cmd deploy --dashboard-id scad-containers-cost-allocation

    Please follow the instructions from the deployment wizard. More info about command line options are in the Readme or cid-cmd --help.

Terraform

You can deploy the SCAD Containers Cost Allocation Dashboard using the CID Terraform module.

Note

Prerequisite: Complete the foundational Terraform deployment as described in the Foundational Dashboards deployment guide (select the Terraform tab) before deploying additional dashboards.

  1. In your user-config.tf, find the dashboards block and set containers to "yes":

      containers = "yes"  # SCAD Containers Cost Allocation Dashboard

  2. Ensure the following module block is present in your dashboards.tf:

    module "containers_dashboard" {
  source = "./modules/cloudformation_stack"
  providers = {
    aws = aws.datacollection
  }

  config = local.additional_dashboards.containers
}
    Note

    This block is already included if you are using the full module files from the repository. If your existing deployment only has foundational dashboards, add this block to dashboards.tf manually. For individual dashboard deployments, include depends_on = [module.cloud_intelligence_dashboards] to ensure correct ordering.

  3. Run the Terraform workflow:

    terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply
    Note

    If you are adding this dashboard to an existing Terraform deployment, terraform plan will show the additional stack to be created. The dashboards.tf file handles the resource definitions automatically — no manual edits to it are needed. If you have a custom module structure with a separate path, ensure the source parameter in your module block points to the correct location.

    For detailed instructions, refer to the Terraform Deployment README.

Note

Please note that DataExport can take up to 24-48 hours to deliver the first reports. If you just installed Data Exports, the dashboard will be most likely empty. Please come back after 24 hours.

Update

Please note that dashboards are not updated with update of CloudFormation Stack. When new version of the dashboard template is released, you can update your dashboard by running the following command in your command-line interface:

cid-cmd update --dashboard-id scad-containers-cost-allocation

Note:

Starting from version (v2.0.0), the scad_cca_hourly_resource_view Quick Sight dataset and Athena view are no longer used by the dashboard, and can be deleted. Please check the SCAD Containers Cost Allocation Dashboard v2.0.0 changelog for more information.