# `[dashboard]` section
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Defines configuration settings for the CloudWatch dashboard.

The format is `[dashboard dashboard-name]`. *dashboard-name* must start with a letter, contain no more than 30 characters, and only contain letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (\$1).

```
[dashboard custom-dashboard]
enable = true
```

**Note**  
Support for `dashboard` was added in AWS ParallelCluster version 2.10.0.

## `enable`
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 **(Optional)** Indicates whether the CloudWatch dashboard is enabled.

The default value is `true`. Use `false` to disable the CloudWatch dashboard.

The following example enables the CloudWatch dashboard.

```
enable = true
```

[Update policy: This setting can be changed during an update.](using-pcluster-update.md#update-policy-setting-supported)