amazon-cloudwatch

Why is the cloudwatch metric not enabled?


I'm attempting to create an alarm in Cloudwatch for account billing. I'm following the instructions here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/gs_monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html

When I select a metric (billing), the button to enable this is disabled. See image. Why isn't this enabled? I am selecting a metric (Estimated Charges), but this doesn't seem to be recognized.

Cloudwatch screen without enabled button


Solution

  • Check if the selected region in the top right of the console is the same as the region selected for the metric. in your case us-east-1