Merge pull request #3129 from utkarshcmu/validity

Default AWS Region selection from dropdown

pkg/api/cloudwatch/metrics.go

@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ func init() {
 	}
 }
 
+// Whenever this list is updated, frontend list should also be updated.
+// Please update the region list in public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/partials/config.html
 func handleGetRegions(req *cwRequest, c *middleware.Context) {
 	regions := []string{
 		"us-east-1", "us-west-2", "us-west-1", "eu-west-1", "eu-central-1", "ap-southeast-1",

public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/partials/config.html

@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@
 				<li class="tight-form-item" style="width: 200px">
 					Default Region<tip>Specify the region, such as for US West (Oregon) use ` us-west-2 ` as the region.</tip>
 				</li>
-				<li>
-					<input type="text" class="tight-form-input input-large last" ng-model='current.jsonData.defaultRegion' placeholder=""></input>
+        <!-- 
+          Whenever this list is updated, backend list should also be updated.
+          Please update the region list in pkg/api/cloudwatch/metric.go
+				-->
+        <li>
+          <select class="tight-form-input input-large last" ng-model="current.jsonData.defaultRegion" ng-options="region for region in ['us-east-1', 'us-west-2', 'us-west-1', 'eu-west-1',
+          'eu-central-1', 'ap-southeast-1'  ,'ap-southeast-2' ,'ap-northeast-1' ,'sa-east-1'  ,'cn-north-1']"></select>
 				</li>
 			</ul>
 			<div class="clearfix"></div>