logs:GetLogEvents

AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as logs:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

NotAction

572 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). A wildcard also covers actions AWS adds later, without a new policy version. 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 Logs

Access level

Read

Description

Grants permission to retrieve log events from the specified log stream

Resource types

log-stream*

Dependent actions

logs:Unmask

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

AdministratorAccessvia *
AmazonBraketFullAccessvia logs:Get*
AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundaryvia logs:*
AmazonEverestServicePolicyvia logs:*
AmazonSSMFullAccessvia logs:*
AWSBatchFullAccessvia logs:Get*
AWSCodeStarServiceRolevia logs:*
AWSElasticBeanstalkFullAccessvia logs:*
AWSLambdaExecutevia logs:*
AWSLambdaFullAccessvia logs:*
AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
AWSPanoramaFullAccessvia logs:Get*
BedrockAgentCoreFullAccessvia logs:Get*
CloudWatchFullAccessvia logs:*
CloudWatchFullAccessV2via logs:*
CloudWatchLogsFullAccessvia logs:*
CloudWatchLogsReadOnlyAccessvia logs:Get*
CloudWatchReadOnlyAccessvia logs:Get*
ReadOnlyAccessvia logs:Get*
SageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicyvia logs:Get*
SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia logs:*
SageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicyvia logs:Get*
SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia logs:*
SystemAdministratorvia logs:*
WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia logs:Get*

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