Manage your connected AWS accounts: add a new account, edit configuration, re-run discovery, enable or disable monitoring, or remove an account entirely.
All account-level actions for AWS monitoring are performed directly from the account's own overview page. Navigate to Cloud → AWS → [Your AWS Account]. The top right of the page shows three buttons: Rediscover, Edit, and Delete. The page itself shows a breakdown of all discovered resources by type, a Cost Explorer summary tile, a geographical and regional breakdown of resources, and a Recommended Actions table aggregating Cloudmon Insights across every resource in the account.
To connect a new AWS account to Cloudmon, refer to How to Set Up AWS Monitoring in Cloudmon for the full setup steps, including IAM credential configuration and initial resource discovery.
To update the configuration of a connected AWS account, such as updating credentials, changing which services are discovered, or adjusting resource lifecycle behaviour:
Monitor Details: account identity and credentials.
| Field | Description |
| Display Name* | A friendly name for this AWS account, e.g. "Production AWS Account". |
| Access Key ID* | The IAM access key ID used to authenticate with this AWS account. |
| Secret Access Key* | The corresponding IAM secret access key. |
Discovery Settings: services, intervals, and notification.
| Field | Description |
| Services to be Discovered* | Select which services to monitor for this account, such as AWS EC2 Instance, AWS RDS Instance, AWS S3 Bucket, and Cost Explorer. |
| Rediscovery Interval | How frequently Cloudmon re-scans this account for new or removed resources. |
| Notify on Discovery | Toggle on to send alerts when new resources are discovered. |
Resource Management: resource lifecycle, alerts, and tag-based filters.
| Field | Description |
| Mute Resource Termination Alerts | Toggle on to stop receiving alerts when a resource is terminated in AWS. |
| Skip Monitoring Stopped Resources | Toggle on to stop polling resources that are in a stopped state in AWS, reducing unnecessary API calls and noise. |
| Automatically Remove Terminated Resources | Toggle on to automatically delete the monitor in Cloudmon when the underlying resource is terminated in AWS. |
| Exclude/Include resources using tags | Choose whether AWS tags are used to Exclude matching resources from discovery or Include only matching resources. |
Configuration Details: groups and tags.
| Field | Description |
| Groups | Optional groups to organise this account alongside others. |
| Tags | Optional tags for filtering and grouping accounts in the list view. |
Individual monitoring settings for a specific resource, such as its assigned Alarm Rule, Groups, or Depends On relationship, can also be changed by selecting the resource from the account's resource list and clicking its own edit icon.
If new resources have been added to your AWS account and are not yet appearing in Cloudmon, you can manually trigger a re-discovery scan without waiting for the next scheduled interval:
You can temporarily pause monitoring for an AWS account without deleting it. This is useful when you want to stop collecting metrics during planned maintenance or testing without losing your configuration.
Note: Disabling monitoring pauses metric collection but retains all existing configuration and historical data. Re-enable at any time by toggling it back on.
To permanently remove an AWS account from Cloudmon monitoring:
Important: Deleting an AWS account removes all associated monitoring data and alarm rules from Cloudmon. This action cannot be undone. Your actual AWS resources are not affected.