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I followed the instructions on http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html in order to have a CPUUtilization based auto scale group. i noticed that the alarms created by mon-put-metric-alarm create alarms that are listed on the cloudwatch dashboard. This means that on low cpu utlilization I always have a metric in ALARM state. Can I hide the auto scale metrics in the CloudWatch web interface?

Jan
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  • "This means that on low cpu utlilization I always have a metric in ALARM state." - I have the same annoyance, which lead me here. Sorry to see there's no good solutions yet. – Teflon Ted Aug 26 '14 at 18:59
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    Yes, I checked it with the premium support and they only gave workarounds. They kind of admitted that the current alarm dashboard is pretty useless once you have auto scaling. – Jan Aug 27 '14 at 10:46
  • Unfortunately, it seems that even three years later this is still an issue. – Jon Buys May 17 '16 at 15:55

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Interesting question (+1) - I'm not aware of any option to hide the auto scale metrics in the Amazon CloudWatch web interface and the respective PutMetricAlarm API action doesn't feature a related option either.

While your use case is sound, the AWS team usually follows the Minimum viable product approach when implementing a new service initially, and despite steadily adding additional features later on, they still tend to obey the Pareto principle when choosing worthwhile features, so I doubt that your understandable request will be implemented anytime soon.

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AWS has now added this feature, there is a check box next to the search var to hide all AutoScaling alarms.

quasar
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