You can use the GetMetricWidgetImage API to retrieve a snapshot graph
of one or more Amazon CloudWatch metrics as a bitmap image. You can then
embed this image into your services and products, such as wiki pages,
reports, and documents. You could also retrieve images regularly, such
as every minute, and create your own custom live dashboard.
cloudwatch_get_metric_widget_image(MetricWidget, OutputFormat)[required] A JSON string that defines the bitmap graph to be retrieved. The string
includes the metrics to include in the graph, statistics, annotations,
title, axis limits, and so on. You can include only one MetricWidget
parameter in each GetMetricWidgetImage call.
For more information about the syntax of MetricWidget see
GetMetricWidgetImage: Metric Widget Structure and Syntax.
If any metric on the graph could not load all the requested data points, an orange triangle with an exclamation point appears next to the graph legend.
The format of the resulting image. Only PNG images are supported.
The default is png. If you specify png, the API returns an HTTP
response with the content-type set to text/xml. The image data is in a
MetricWidgetImage field. For example:
<GetMetricWidgetImageResponse xmlns=<URLstring>>
<GetMetricWidgetImageResult>
<MetricWidgetImage>
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAlgAAAGQEAYAAAAip...
</MetricWidgetImage>
</GetMetricWidgetImageResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>6f0d4192-4d42-11e8-82c1-f539a07e0e3b</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</GetMetricWidgetImageResponse>
The image/png setting is intended only for custom HTTP requests. For
most use cases, and all actions using an AWS SDK, you should use png.
If you specify image/png, the HTTP response has a content-type set to
image/png, and the body of the response is a PNG image.
svc$get_metric_widget_image( MetricWidget = "string", OutputFormat = "string" )
The graph you retrieve can include all CloudWatch metric graph features, including metric math and horizontal and vertical annotations.
There is a limit of 20 transactions per second for this API. Each
GetMetricWidgetImage action has the following limits:
As many as 100 metrics in the graph.
Up to 100 KB uncompressed payload.