Managing Resources
Resource groups are designed to provide information about your resources at a glance. You can monitor what is happening with your resources and use the links to take corrective or other actions.
Getting Information About a Resource
Resource Groups displays detailed information about your resources. It also uses a red icon to indicate when a CloudWatch metric has triggered an alarm. This icon appears in several places:
Next to the resource group name in the main AWS Management Console home page
Next to each resource type in the resource group’s navigation pane
In each row of the resource group table
To get detailed information about a resource
Open an existing resource group, as explained in Accessing a Resource Group.
In the navigation pane, select the desired resource type.
In the resource table, locate the resource that you want to monitor.
Tip
To simplify locating the desired resource, filter and otherwise customize the table of resources, as explained in Customizing Your Resource Group Display.
Click the triangle to expand the row for the desired resource to get more information.
Taking Action on a Resource
You might need to act on the information that you see in the resource group table. For example, if an Amazon EC2 instance has triggered a CloudWatch alarm, you might want to go to the CloudWatch console for more details or to the Amazon EC2 console to correct a problem. Resource Groups makes it easy to get to the controls that you need quickly.
To take action on a resource
Display detail for the selected resource, as explained in Getting Information About a Resource.
Do one of the following:
To go to the console that controls the entire resource, click the blue manage resource icon (
) in the resource’s table row, or click
Manage resource in the details pane.To take action on a CloudWatch alarm, click the link for the alarm to open the CloudWatch console.
