CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to actions for working with Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Also provides access to other services in Amazon CloudWatch, including policies to retrieve information on CloudWatch metrics and to manage log queries, that are necessary to use the Internet Monitor service for monitoring and storing information about application traffic.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2024-11-12
Last edited: 2024-11-12
Services: cloudwatch, internetmonitor, logs

Control-plane actions (15)

By access level: 4 List, 11 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Internet Monitor	11 of 17	3 List, 8 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	internetmonitor:GetHealthEvent, internetmonitor:GetInternetEvent, internetmonitor:GetMonitor, internetmonitor:GetQueryResults, internetmonitor:GetQueryStatus, internetmonitor:ListHealthEvents, internetmonitor:ListInternetEvents, internetmonitor:ListMonitors, internetmonitor:ListTagsForResource, internetmonitor:StartQuery, internetmonitor:StopQuery
CloudWatch Logs	4 of 133	1 List, 3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:DescribeLogGroups, logs:GetQueryResults, logs:StartQuery, logs:StopQuery

Internet Monitor: 11 actions

internetmonitor:GetHealthEvent (Read)
internetmonitor:GetInternetEvent (Read)
internetmonitor:GetMonitor (Read)
internetmonitor:GetQueryResults (Read)
internetmonitor:GetQueryStatus (Read)
internetmonitor:ListHealthEvents (List)
internetmonitor:ListInternetEvents (List)
internetmonitor:ListMonitors (List)
internetmonitor:ListTagsForResource (Read)
internetmonitor:StartQuery (Read)
internetmonitor:StopQuery (Read)

CloudWatch Logs: 4 actions

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

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

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

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "ReadOnlyActions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "internetmonitor:GetHealthEvent",
        "internetmonitor:GetInternetEvent",
        "internetmonitor:GetMonitor",
        "internetmonitor:GetQueryResults",
        "internetmonitor:GetQueryStatus",
        "internetmonitor:ListHealthEvents",
        "internetmonitor:ListInternetEvents",
        "internetmonitor:ListMonitors",
        "internetmonitor:ListTagsForResource",
        "internetmonitor:StartQuery",
        "internetmonitor:StopQuery",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:GetQueryResults",
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:StopQuery"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2024-11-12. 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/CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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