# See instance name in alias instead of id (Cloudwatch)

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/see-instance-name-in-alias-instead-of-id-cloudwatch/15343>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/see-instance-name-in-alias-instead-of-id-cloudwatch/15343 "2019-03-14T15:16:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![camidevops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@camidevops](https://community.grafana.com/u/camidevops)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/see-instance-name-in-alias-instead-of-id-cloudwatch/15343/1 "2019-03-14T15:16:02Z")

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Hello everybody,

I saw topics about show the InstanceName instead of the InstanceId in the graphic alias from dashboards in Grafana and it didn’t work because Cloudwatch doesn’t return this.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/7/76307618706e2598a894fcc11fa5f971dca9760b.png)

Can’t I do this even with any API, another plugin or any code/query? Is it really not working on Grafana until now? ☹

Thank you by now.

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**Author:** ![rohlik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@rohlik](https://community.grafana.com/u/rohlik)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/see-instance-name-in-alias-instead-of-id-cloudwatch/15343/2 "2024-01-19T19:35:48Z")

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Isnt’t this answer your question [Cloudwatch show servername instead of Instance ID](https://community.grafana.com/t/cloudwatch-show-servername-instead-of-instance-id/10962) ?