AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess

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Summary

This policy grants access to Amazon CloudWatch and the dependencies needed to use CloudWatch as a datasource within Amazon Managed Grafana.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2023-03-24
Last edited: 2023-03-24
Services: cloudwatch, ec2, logs, oam, tag

Control-plane actions (16)

By access level: 4 List, 12 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	4 of 160	4 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric, cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport
EC2	3 of 834	3 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeRegions, ec2:DescribeTags
CloudWatch Logs	6 of 133	1 List, 5 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:DescribeLogGroups, logs:GetLogEvents, logs:GetLogGroupFields, logs:GetQueryResults, logs:StartQuery, logs:StopQuery
OAM	2 of 15	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	oam:ListAttachedLinks, oam:ListSinks
Resource Group Tagging	1 of 9	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	tag:GetResources

CloudWatch: 4 actions

cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory (Read)
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric (Read)
cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport (Read)

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeRegions (List)
ec2:DescribeTags (List)

CloudWatch Logs: 6 actions

logs:DescribeLogGroups (List)
logs:GetLogEvents (Read)
logs:GetLogGroupFields (Read)
logs:GetQueryResults (Read)
logs:StartQuery (Read)
logs:StopQuery (Read)

OAM: 2 actions

oam:ListAttachedLinks (Read)
oam:ListSinks (Read)

Resource Group Tagging: 1 actions

tag:GetResources (Read)

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	3 of 5	1 List, 2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:GetMetricData, cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics, cloudwatch:ListMetrics

CloudWatch: 3 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)
cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics (Read)
cloudwatch:ListMetrics (List)

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: all-resources.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants read access plus query or analysis actions that expose data.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:GetLogGroupFields",
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:StopQuery",
        "logs:GetQueryResults",
        "logs:GetLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "tag:GetResources",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "oam:ListSinks",
        "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2023-03-24. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_amazongrafanacloudwatchaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess"),
);

Sources

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