CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess

Summary

Provides full access to CloudWatch Application Insights and required dependencies.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v4

Created

2020-11-24

Last edited

2022-01-25

Services

apigateway, applicationinsights, autoscaling, dynamodb, ec2, ecs, eks, elasticloadbalancing, fsx, iam, lambda, logs, rds, s3, sns, sqs, states

Control-plane actions (58)

By access level: 24 List, 16 Read, 2 Tagging, 16 Write.

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

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

Why this tier

• Grants at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: applicationinsights (15 of 15).

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.

Related policies

Same service

• AmazonLaunchWizard_Fullaccess
• AWSServiceRoleForSMS
• CloudWatchApplicationInsightsReadOnlyAccess
• ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole

Same domain

• AmazonAPIGatewayPushToCloudWatchLogs
• AmazonAthenaServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonBraketFullAccess
• AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyFullAccess
• AmazonCloudWatchRUMFullAccess
• AmazonCloudWatchRUMReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonCloudWatchRUMServiceRolePolicy

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": "applicationinsights:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
        "sqs:ListQueues",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "dynamodb:ListTables",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "states:ListStateMachines",
        "apigateway:GET",
        "ecs:ListClusters",
        "ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition",
        "ecs:ListServices",
        "ecs:ListTasks",
        "eks:ListClusters",
        "eks:ListNodegroups",
        "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2022-01-25. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

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

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "cloudwatchapplicationinsightsfullaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess
• Report a data issue