Deployment - Cloud Intelligence Dashboards on AWS
Deployment

Deployment

Deployment

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

  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.

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 QuickSight 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.