Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs (service prefix: logs) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

• Learn how to configure this service.

• View a list of the API operations available for this service.

• Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by Amazon CloudWatch Logs

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AssociateKmsKey	Grants permission to associate the specified AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) with the specified log group	Write	log-group*
CancelExportTask	Grants permission to cancel an export task if it is in PENDING or RUNNING state	Write
CreateExportTask	Grants permission to create an ExportTask which allows you to efficiently export data from a Log Group to your Amazon S3 bucket	Write	log-group*
CreateLogDelivery [permission only]	Grants permission to create the log delivery	Write
CreateLogGroup	Grants permission to create a new log group with the specified name	Write	log-group*
				aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
CreateLogStream	Grants permission to create a new log stream with the specified name	Write	log-stream*
DeleteAccountPolicy	Grants permission to delete a data protection policy attached to an account	Write
DeleteDataProtectionPolicy	Grants permission to delete a data protection policy attached to a log group	Write	log-group*
DeleteDestination	Grants permission to delete the destination with the specified name	Write	destination*
DeleteLogDelivery [permission only]	Grants permission to delete the log delivery information for specified log delivery	Write
DeleteLogGroup	Grants permission to delete the log group with the specified name	Write	log-group*
DeleteLogStream	Grants permission to delete a log stream	Write	log-stream*
DeleteMetricFilter	Grants permission to delete a metric filter associated with the specified log group	Write	log-group*
DeleteQueryDefinition	Grants permission to delete a saved CloudWatch Logs Insights query definition	Write
DeleteResourcePolicy	Grants permission to delete a resource policy from this account	Permissions management
DeleteRetentionPolicy	Grants permission to delete the retention policy of the specified log group	Write	log-group*
DeleteSubscriptionFilter	Grants permission to delete a subscription filter associated with the specified log group	Write	log-group*
DescribeAccountPolicies	Grants permission to retrieve a data protection policy attached to an account	List
DescribeDestinations	Grants permission to return all the destinations that are associated with the AWS account making the request	List
DescribeExportTasks	Grants permission to return all the export tasks that are associated with the AWS account making the request	List
DescribeLogGroups	Grants permission to return all the log groups that are associated with the AWS account making the request	List
DescribeLogStreams	Grants permission to return all the log streams that are associated with the specified log group	List	log-group*
DescribeMetricFilters	Grants permission to return all the metrics filters associated with the specified log group	List	log-group*
DescribeQueries	Grants permission to return a list of CloudWatch Logs Insights queries that are scheduled, executing, or have been executed recently in this account	List
DescribeQueryDefinitions	Grants permission to return a paginated list of your saved CloudWatch Logs Insights query definitions	List
DescribeResourcePolicies	Grants permission to return all the resource policies in this account	List
DescribeSubscriptionFilters	Grants permission to return all the subscription filters associated with the specified log group	List	log-group*
DisassociateKmsKey	Grants permission to disassociate the associated AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key (CMK) from the specified log group	Write	log-group*
FilterLogEvents	Grants permission to retrieve log events, optionally filtered by a filter pattern from the specified log group	Read	log-group*
GetDataProtectionPolicy	Grants permission to retrieve a data protection policy attached to a log group	Read	log-group*
GetLogDelivery [permission only]	Grants permission to get the log delivery information for specified log delivery	Read
GetLogEvents	Grants permission to retrieve log events from the specified log stream	Read	log-stream*
GetLogGroupFields	Grants permission to return a list of the fields that are included in log events in the specified log group, along with the percentage of log events that contain each field	Read	log-group*
GetLogRecord	Grants permission to retrieve all the fields and values of a single log event	Read	log-group*
GetQueryResults	Grants permission to return the results from the specified query	Read	log-group*
Link [permission only]	Grants permission to share CloudWatch resources with a monitoring account	Write
ListLogDeliveries [permission only]	Grants permission to list all the log deliveries for specified account and/or log source	List
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to list the tags for the specified resource	List	destination
			log-group
ListTagsLogGroup	Grants permission to list the tags for the specified log group	List	log-group*
PutAccountPolicy	Grants permission to attach a data protection policy at account level to detect and redact sensitive information from log events	Write
PutDataProtectionPolicy	Grants permission to attach a data protection policy to detect and redact sensitive information from log events	Write	log-group*
PutDestination	Grants permission to create or update a Destination	Write	destination*		iam:PassRole
				aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
PutDestinationPolicy	Grants permission to create or update an access policy associated with an existing Destination	Write	destination*
PutLogEvents	Grants permission to upload a batch of log events to the specified log stream	Write	log-stream*
PutMetricFilter	Grants permission to create or update a metric filter and associates it with the specified log group	Write	log-group*
PutQueryDefinition	Grants permission to create or update a query definition	Write
PutResourcePolicy	Grants permission to create or update a resource policy allowing other AWS services to put log events to this account	Permissions management
PutRetentionPolicy	Grants permission to set the retention of the specified log group	Write	log-group*
PutSubscriptionFilter	Grants permission to create or update a subscription filter and associates it with the specified log group	Write	log-group*		iam:PassRole
			destination
StartLiveTail [permission only]	Grants permission to start a livetail session in CloudWatch Logs	Read
StartQuery	Grants permission to schedule a query of a log group using CloudWatch Logs Insights	Read	log-group*
StopLiveTail [permission only]	Grants permission to stop a CloudWatch Logs livetail session that is in progress	Read
StopQuery	Grants permission to stop a CloudWatch Logs Insights query that is in progress	Read
TagLogGroup	Grants permission to add or update the specified tags for the specified log group	Tagging	log-group*
				aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
TagResource	Grants permission to add or update the specified tags for the specified resource	Tagging	destination
			log-group
				aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
TestMetricFilter	Grants permission to test the filter pattern of a metric filter against a sample of log event messages	Read
Unmask [permission only]	Grants permission to fetch unmasked log events that have been redacted with a data protection policy	Read	log-group*
UntagLogGroup	Grants permission to remove the specified tags from the specified log group	Tagging	log-group*
				aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to remove the specified tags from the specified resource	Tagging	destination
			log-group
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateLogDelivery [permission only]	Grants permission to update the log delivery information for specified log delivery	Write

Resource types defined by Amazon CloudWatch Logs

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
log-group	arn:${Partition}:logs:${Region}:${Account}:log-group:${LogGroupName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
log-stream	arn:${Partition}:logs:${Region}:${Account}:log-group:${LogGroupName}:log-stream:${LogStreamName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
destination	arn:${Partition}:logs:${Region}:${Account}:destination:${DestinationName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request	ArrayOfString