cloudwatch:GetMetricData

Literal appearances in AWS managed IAM policies. Statements that use wildcards (for example s3:*) are not counted here. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

93

Allow (Action)

93

Deny (Action)

0

NotAction

2

571 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). Index regenerated on every deploy.

First seen

From archive history

This action

Already present when the archive began, on 2019-02-10

Earliest appearance in any AWS managed policy tracked here, not an official AWS launch date. Matched case-insensitively, as IAM does.

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: Amazon CloudWatch

Access level

Read

Description

Grants permission to retrieve batch amounts of CloudWatch classic metric data and perform metric math on retrieved data; and grants permission to retrieve OTLP metric data using PromQL

Resource types

  • dataset

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

None

NotAction

Thanks to Ian McKay for iam-dataset (MIT), structured data derived from the AWS Service Authorization Reference. Not maintained by AWS and not guaranteed current. IAMTrail's managed policy archive is separate.

Definitions bundle regenerated on every deploy