CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess

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Sep 22, 2026

September 22, 2026 at 05:04 PM UTC

Version

v25

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Sep 22, 2026

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchReadOnlyAccessPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
            "application-signals:BatchGet*",
            "application-signals:Get*",
            "application-signals:List*",
            "autoscaling:Describe*",
            "cloudtrail:ListChannels",
            "cloudwatch:BatchGet*",
            "cloudwatch:Describe*",
            "cloudwatch:GenerateQuery",
            "cloudwatch:Get*",
            "cloudwatch:List*",
            "cloudwatch:CreateOneTimeDeepLinkCode",
            "logs:Get*",
            "logs:List*",
            "logs:StartQuery",
            "logs:StopQuery",
            "logs:Describe*",
            "logs:TestMetricFilter",
            "logs:FilterLogEvents",
            "logs:StartLiveTail",
            "logs:StopLiveTail",
            "oam:ListSinks",
            "observabilityadmin:GetCentralizationRuleForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:ListCentralizationRulesForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEvaluationStatus",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEvaluationStatusForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryRule",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryRuleForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:ListResourceTelemetry",
            "observabilityadmin:ListResourceTelemetryForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryRules",
            "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryRulesForOrganization",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEnrichmentStatus",
            "observabilityadmin:ListTagsForResource",
            "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryPipeline",
            "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryPipelines",
            "observabilityadmin:TestTelemetryPipeline",
            "observabilityadmin:ValidateTelemetryPipelineConfiguration",
            "observabilityadmin:GetS3TableIntegration",
            "observabilityadmin:ListS3TableIntegrations",
            "observabilityadmin:GetDatasetIntegration",
            "observabilityadmin:ListDatasetIntegrations",
            "sns:Get*",
            "sns:List*",
            "rum:BatchGet*",
            "rum:Get*",
            "rum:List*",
            "synthetics:Describe*",
            "synthetics:Get*",
            "synthetics:List*",
            "xray:BatchGet*",
            "xray:Get*",
            "xray:List*",
            "xray:StartTraceRetrieval",
            "xray:CancelTraceRetrieval"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "OAMReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchReadOnlyGetRolePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:GetRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchCloudTrailPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudtrail:GetChannel"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchServiceQuotaPermissions",
          "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": "CloudWatchResourceExplorerPermissions",
          "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"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v25",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-09-22T16:57:07+00:00"
  }
}

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