CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess - AWS Managed Policy
Using this policyPolicy detailsPolicy versionJSON policy documentLearn more

CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess

Description: Provides read only access to CloudWatch.

CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

  • Type: AWS managed policy

  • Creation time: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC

  • Edited time: May 17, 2024, 22:17 UTC

  • ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess

Policy version

Policy version: v9 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchReadOnlyAccessPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-signals:BatchGet*",
        "application-signals:Get*",
        "application-signals:List*",
        "autoscaling:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:BatchGet*",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:GenerateQuery",
        "cloudwatch:Get*",
        "cloudwatch:List*",
        "logs:Get*",
        "logs:List*",
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:StopQuery",
        "logs:Describe*",
        "logs:TestMetricFilter",
        "logs:FilterLogEvents",
        "logs:StartLiveTail",
        "logs:StopLiveTail",
        "oam:ListSinks",
        "sns:Get*",
        "sns:List*",
        "rum:BatchGet*",
        "rum:Get*",
        "rum:List*",
        "synthetics:Describe*",
        "synthetics:Get*",
        "synthetics:List*",
        "xray:BatchGet*",
        "xray:Get*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "OAMReadPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchReadOnlyGetRolePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals"
    }
  ]
}

Learn more