cloudwatch:describeAlarmsForMetric

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)

2

Allow (Action)

2

Deny (Action)

0

NotAction

0

Index generated 4/7/2026, 3:29:24 AM. 559 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service).

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: Amazon CloudWatch

Access level

Read

Description

Grants permission to describe all alarms configured on the specified metric, currently owned by the user's account

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

None

NotAction

None

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 generated 4/7/2026, 3:29:24 AM