# Creating a CloudWatch cross-account cross-Region dashboard with the AWS Management Console
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You can create *cross-account cross-Region dashboards*, which summarize your CloudWatch data from multiple AWS accounts and multiple Regions into one dashboard. From this high-level dashboard you can get a view of your entire application, and also drill down into more specific dashboards without having to sign in and out of accounts or switch Regions.

**Prerequisite**  
Before you can create a cross-account cross-Region dashboard, you must enable at least one sharing account and at least one monitoring account. Additionally, to be able to use the CloudWatch console to create a cross-account dashboard, you must enable the console for cross-account functionality. For more information, see [Cross-account cross-Region CloudWatch console](Cross-Account-Cross-Region.md).

**To create a cross-account cross-Region dashboard**

1. Sign in to the monitoring account.

1. Open the CloudWatch console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Dashboards**.

1. Choose a dashboard, or create a new one.

1. At the top of the screen, you can switch between accounts and Regions. As you create your dashboard, you can include widgets from multiple accounts and Regions. Widgets include graphs, alarms, and CloudWatch Logs Insights widgets.