To retrieve information about a Dashboard
The following get-dashboard example displays information about the dashboard named Dashboard-A in the specified account.
aws cloudwatch get-dashboard \
--dashboard-name Dashboard-A
Output:
{
"DashboardArn": "arn:aws:cloudwatch::123456789012:dashboard/Dashboard-A",
"DashboardBody": "{\"widgets\":[{\"type\":\"metric\",\"x\":0,\"y\":0,\"width\":6,\"height\":6,\"properties\":{\"view\":\"timeSeries\",\"stacked\":false,\"metrics\":[[\"AWS/EC2\",\"NetworkIn\",\"InstanceId\",\"i-0131f062232ade043\"],[\".\",\"NetworkOut\",\".\",\".\"]],\"region\":\"us-east-1\"}}]}",
"DashboardName": "Dashboard-A"
}
For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch dashboards in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.