The Amazon CloudWatch documentation features a user guide, including a using dashboards section, the AWS CLI reference, and the API reference. Support is provided via the Amazon CloudWatch forum.

Alternatively, if you use the name “CloudWatch-Default-<Resource Group Name>,” the dashboard appears on the CloudWatch home page when you open the particular AWS resource group. 4.

I find AWS employees to be intelligent and well-intentioned, and most of their services quite good. CloudWatch could get there with some work, but it's got a number of very painful usability issues ...

CloudWatch Application Signals is available in preview as part of AWS’ CloudWatch observability service. The myApplications tool, in turn, is generally available through the AWS Management Console.

But overall, the Datadog dashboards and interface are self-explanatory. CloudWatch, though, is less straightforward. Veteran AWS professionals won’t find it challenging. But others might.