CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess

Summary

Provides read only access to CloudWatch Application Signals service and scoped access to the dependencies needed to use this service

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v7

Created

2024-06-06

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

application-signals, cloudtrail, cloudwatch, iam, logs, oam, resource-explorer-2, rum, servicequotas, synthetics, xray

Control-plane actions (35)

By access level: 11 List, 24 Read.

Data-plane actions (6)

By access level: 3 List, 3 Read.

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 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.

Related policies

Same service

• AmazonCloudWatchRUMServiceRolePolicy
• APIGatewayServiceRolePolicy
• AWSAppSyncServiceRolePolicy
• AWSXRayAPIKeyAccess
• AWSXrayCrossAccountSharingConfiguration
• AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess
• AWSXrayFullAccess
• AWSXrayReadOnlyAccess

Same domain

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

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": [
    {
      "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": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v7, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for CloudWatchApplicationSignalsReadOnlyAccess
• Report a data issue