Set the yAxis of a metric in a widget
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Description
### Describe the feature
I would like to be able to set the yAxis value of a metric using the CDK. As per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/CloudWatch-Dashboard-Body-Structure.html it's defined as:
```
yAxis
Where on the graph to display the y-axis for this metric. The default is left.
Valid Values: left | right
Type: String
Required: No
```
### Use Case
Without the ability to change the yAxis value of a metric I have to graph some metric math expressions on an entirely different graph to avoid conflicting units and scale. This is incredibly frustrating and results in a suboptimal dashboard.
### Proposed Solution
Add the ability to set the `yAxis` value for a metric. Similar to how we can already set `color` and `label`.
### Other Information
_No response_
### Acknowledgements
- [X] I may be able to implement this feature request
- [X] This feature might incur a breaking change
### CDK version used
1
### Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)
N/A
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the CDK widget metric API that already exposes color and label, then compare its generated CloudWatch dashboard metric shape with the AWS Dashboard Body Structure reference. Done means callers can set yAxis to left or right on an individual metric and the value is emitted in the dashboard definition.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, typescript
- Domain
- cloud, observability-sre
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100