Grafana dashboard: AWS SQS
Description: Visualize AWS SQS metrics

## AWS SQS

Visualize AWS SQS metrics

## CloudWatch datasource configuration

[http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/cloudwatch/](http://docs.grafana.org/datasources/cloudwatch/)

## Make Grafana AWS dashboards better

Feel free to add additional dashboards for other AWS resources (EC2, ...) or update existing one in [GitHub repo](https://github.com/monitoringartist/grafana-aws-cloudwatch-dashboards).

## Commercial support for this dashboard

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