# Monitoring environment health in the AWS management console
You can access operational information about your application from the Elastic Beanstalk console. The console displays your environment's status and application health at a glance. In the console's **Environments** page and in each application's page, the environments on the list are color-coded to indicate status.
**To monitor an environment in the Elastic Beanstalk console**
1. Open the [Elastic Beanstalk console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk), and in the **Regions** list, select your AWS Region.
1. In the navigation pane, choose **Environments**, and then choose the name of your environment from the list.
1. In the navigation pane, choose **Monitoring**.
The Monitoring page shows you overall statistics about your environment, such as CPU utilization and average latency. In addition to the overall statistics, you can view monitoring graphs that show resource usage over time. You can click any of the graphs to view more detailed information.
**Note**
By default, only basic CloudWatch metrics are enabled, which return data in five-minute periods. You can enable more granular one-minute CloudWatch metrics by editing your environment's configuration settings.
## Monitoring graphs
The **Monitoring** page shows an overview of health-related metrics for your environment. This includes the default set of metrics provided by Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon EC2, and graphs that show how the environment's health has changed over time.
The bar above the graphs provides a variety of time intervals for you to select. For example, select **1w** to display information that spans over the last week. Or select **3h** to display information that spans over the last three hours.
For a greater variety of time interval selections, choose **Custom**. From here you have two range options: *Absolute* or *Relative*. The **Absolute** option allows you to specify a specific date range, such as *January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023*. The **Relative** option allows to select an integer with a specific time unit: *Minutes*, *Hours,* *Days*, *Weeks*, or *Months*. Examples include *10 Hours*, *10 Days*, and *10 Months*.
![\[Environment health monitoring section on the environment monitoring page of the Elastic Beanstalk console\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/images/environment-monitoring-graphs.png)
## Customizing the monitoring console
To create and view custom metrics you must use Amazon CloudWatch. With CloudWatch you can create custom dashboards to monitor your resources in a single view. Select **Add to dashboard** to navigate to the Amazon CloudWatch console from the **Monitoring** page. Amazon CloudWatch provides you the option to create a new dashboard or select an existing one. For more information, see [Using Amazon CloudWatch dashboards](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html) in the *Amazon CloudWatch User Guide*.
![\[Environment health monitoring section on the environment monitoring page of the Elastic Beanstalk console\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/images/environment-monitoring-graphs.png)
[Elastic Load Balancing](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-metricscollected.html) and [Amazon EC2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/ec2-metricscollected.html) metrics are enabled for all environments.
With [enhanced health](health-enhanced.md), the EnvironmentHealth metric is enabled, and a graph is added to the monitoring console automatically. Enhanced health also adds the [Health page](health-enhanced-console.md#health-enhanced-console-healthpage) to the management console. For a list of available enhanced health metrics, see [Publishing Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics for an environment](health-enhanced-cloudwatch.md).