CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Policy grants permission to CloudWatch Application Signals to collect monitoring and tagging data from other relevant AWS services.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v11
Created: 2023-11-09
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: application-signals, autoscaling, cloudtrail, cloudwatch, logs, resource-explorer-2, tag, xray

Control-plane actions (8)

By access level: 2 List, 5 Read, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Application Signals	2 of 30	1 List, 1 Read; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	application-signals:GetServiceLevelObjective, application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectiveExclusionWindows
EC2 Auto Scaling	1 of 68	1 List; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups
CloudTrail	1 of 66	1 Write; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel
CloudWatch Logs	2 of 133	2 Read; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	logs:GetQueryResults, logs:StartQuery
Resource Explorer	1 of 37	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	resource-explorer-2:Search
Resource Group Tagging	1 of 9	1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	tag:GetResources

Application Signals: 2 actions

application-signals:GetServiceLevelObjective (Read)
application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectiveExclusionWindows (List)

EC2 Auto Scaling: 1 actions

autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups (List)

CloudTrail: 1 actions

cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel (Write)

CloudWatch Logs: 2 actions

logs:GetQueryResults (Read)
logs:StartQuery (Read)

Resource Explorer: 1 actions

resource-explorer-2:Search (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	2 of 5	1 List, 1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	cloudwatch:GetMetricData, cloudwatch:ListMetrics
X-Ray	1 of 12	1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	xray:GetServiceGraph

CloudWatch: 2 actions

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

X-Ray: 1 actions

xray:GetServiceGraph (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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 1 write, tagging or permissions-management action, short of full control of any service.

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "XRayPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "xray:GetServiceGraph"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CWLogsPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:GetQueryResults"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/appsignals/*:*",
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/application-signals/data:*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CWListMetricsPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CWGetMetricDataPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagsPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationSignalsPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectiveExclusionWindows",
        "application-signals:GetServiceLevelObjective"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EC2AutoScalingPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-explorer-2:Search"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudTrailServiceLinkedChannelCreationPermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v11, 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

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.