CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess

Last Modified

Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:28 PM UTC

Version

v7

Total Versions

4

Created

Feb 12, 2026

Actions

41

Risk

no risk signal

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  • Error / INVALID_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_FORMAT

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Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccessPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "application-signals:BatchGetServiceLevelObjectiveBudgetReport",
            "application-signals:GetService",
            "application-signals:GetServiceLevelObjective",
            "application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectives",
            "application-signals:ListServiceDependencies",
            "application-signals:ListServiceDependents",
            "application-signals:ListServiceOperations",
            "application-signals:ListServices",
            "application-signals:ListTagsForResource",
            "application-signals:ListServiceStates",
            "application-signals:ListAuditFindings",
            "application-signals:ListGroupingAttributeDefinitions",
            "application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectiveExclusionWindows",
            "application-signals:ListEntityEvents"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsGetRolePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:GetRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsLogsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "logs:StartQuery",
            "logs:StopQuery",
            "logs:GetQueryResults",
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsAlarmsReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsMetricsReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsSyntheticsReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "synthetics:DescribeCanaries",
            "synthetics:DescribeCanariesLastRun",
            "synthetics:GetCanaryRuns"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsRumReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "rum:BatchGetRumMetricDefinitions",
            "rum:GetAppMonitor",
            "rum:GetAppMonitorData",
            "rum:ListAppMonitors"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsXrayTracePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "xray:GetTraceSummaries"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsXrayReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "xray:StartTraceRetrieval",
            "xray:ListRetrievedTraces",
            "xray:BatchGetTraces",
            "xray:GetTraceSegmentDestination"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
              "aws:CalledVia": [
                "application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsCloudTrailPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudtrail:GetChannel"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsCloudTrailListPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudtrail:ListChannels"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceQuotaPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "servicequotas:GetServiceQuota"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:s3/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:dynamodb/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:kinesis/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:sns/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:bedrock/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:lambda/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:fargate/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:elasticloadbalancing/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:ec2/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsResourceExplorerPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "resource-explorer-2:ListIndexes",
            "resource-explorer-2:Search"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignals/service-view",
            "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignalsOrgScopeProd/service-view"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsOAMAttachedLinksPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsOAMListSinksPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "oam:ListSinks"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v7",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T17:57:56+00:00"
  }
}

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Sep 29, 2025

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