• The AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Application overview in Application Manager
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In Application Manager, a component of AWS Systems Manager, the **Overview** tab displays a summary of Amazon CloudWatch alarms, operational work items (OpsItems), CloudWatch Application Insights, and runbook history. Choose **View all** for any card to open the corresponding tab where you can view all application insights, alarms, OpsItems, or runbook history.

**About Application Insights**  
CloudWatch Application Insights identifies and sets up key metrics, logs, and alarms across your application resources and technology stack. Application Insights continuously monitors metrics and logs to detect and correlate anomalies and errors. When the system detects errors or anomalies, Application Insights generates CloudWatch Events that you can use to set up notifications or take actions. If you choose the **Edit configuration** button on the **Monitoring** tab, the system opens the CloudWatch Application Insights console. For more information about Application Insights, see [What is Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/appinsights-what-is.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*.

**About Cost Explorer**  
Application Manager is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer, a feature of [AWS Cost Management](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/account-billing/index.html), through the **Cost** widget and **Cost** tab. After you enable Cost Explorer in the Cost Management console, the **Cost** widget and **Cost** tab in Application Manager shows cost data for a specific non-container application or application component. You can use filters in the widget, or tab, to view cost data according to different time periods, levels of granularity, and cost types in either a bar or line chart. 

You can enable this feature by choosing the **Go to AWS Cost Management console** button. By default, the data is filtered to the past three months. For a non-container application, if you choose the **View all** button, Application Manager opens the **Resources** tab. For container applications, the **View all** button opens the AWS Cost Explorer console.

**Actions you can perform on this page**  
You can turn on and access information about the following widgets on the **Overview** tab on this page. When a widget is enabled, choose its **View all** to see relevant application details for that area.
+ In the **Insights and Alarms** section, choose the number for a severity to open the **Monitoring**, tab, where you can view more details about alarms of the chosen severity.
+ In the **Cost** section, choose **View all ** to open the **Resources** tab, where you can view cost data for a specific application or application component.
+ In the **Compliance** section, choose **View all ** to open the **Compliance** tab, where you can view compliance information from AWS Config and State Manager associations.
**Note**  
To view patch compliance details, choose the **Compliance** tab directly. Then you can view patch compliance details for the managed nodes used by the selected application. 
+ In the **Runbooks** section, choose a runbook to open it in the Systems Manager **Documents** page where you can view more details about the document.
+ In the **OpsItems** section, choose a severity to open the **OpsItems** tab where you can view all OpsItems of the chosen severity.
+ Choose a **View all** button to open the corresponding tab. You can view all alarms, OpsItems, or runbook history entries for the application.

**To open the **Overview** tab**

1. Open the AWS Systems Manager console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Application Manager**.

1. In the **Applications** section, choose a category. If you want to open an application you created manually in Application Manager, choose **Custom applications**.

1. Choose the application in the list. Application Manager opens the **Overview** tab.