# Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch - Service Authorization Reference
Lists all of the available service-specific resources, actions, and condition keys that can be used in IAM policies to control access to Amazon CloudWatch.

Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch - Service Authorization Reference

# Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch (service prefix: `cloudwatch`) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

- Learn how to configure this service.

- View a list of the API operations available for this service.

- Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

###### Topics

- Actions defined by Amazon CloudWatch
- Resource types defined by Amazon CloudWatch
- Condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch

## Actions defined by Amazon CloudWatch

You can specify the following actions in the `Action` element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the `Resource` element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the `Resource` element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's `Condition` element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

###### Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions | Description | Access level | Resource types (*required) | Condition keys | Dependent actions
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
DeleteAlarms | Grants permission to delete a collection of alarms | Write | alarm* |  |
DeleteAnomalyDetector | Grants permission to delete the specified anomaly detection model from your account | Write |  |  |
DeleteDashboards | Grants permission to delete all CloudWatch dashboards that you specify | Write | dashboard* |  |
DeleteInsightRules | Grants permission to delete a collection of insight rules | Write | insight-rule* |  |
DeleteMetricStream | Grants permission to delete the CloudWatch metric stream that you specify | Write | metric-stream* |  |
DescribeAlarmHistory | Grants permission to retrieve the history for the specified alarm | Read | alarm* |  |
DescribeAlarms | Grants permission to describe all alarms, currently owned by the user's account | Read | alarm* |  |
DescribeAlarmsForMetric | Grants permission to describe all alarms configured on the specified metric, currently owned by the user's account | Read |  |  |
DescribeAnomalyDetectors | Grants permission to list the anomaly detection models that you have created in your account | Read |  |  |
DescribeInsightRules | Grants permission to describe all insight rules, currently owned by the user's account | Read |  |  |
DisableAlarmActions | Grants permission to disable actions for a collection of alarms | Write | alarm* |  |
DisableInsightRules | Grants permission to disable a collection of insight rules | Write | insight-rule* |  |
EnableAlarmActions | Grants permission to enable actions for a collection of alarms | Write | alarm* |  |
EnableInsightRules | Grants permission to enable a collection of insight rules | Write | insight-rule* |  |
GetDashboard | Grants permission to display the details of the CloudWatch dashboard you specify | Read | dashboard* |  |
GetInsightRuleReport | Grants permission to return the top-N report of unique contributors over a time range for a given insight rule | Read | insight-rule* |  |
GetMetricData | Grants permission to retrieve batch amounts of CloudWatch metric data and perform metric math on retrieved data | Read |  |  |
GetMetricStatistics | Grants permission to retrieve statistics for the specified metric | Read |  |  |
GetMetricStream | Grants permission to return the details of a CloudWatch metric stream | Read | metric-stream* |  |
GetMetricWidgetImage | Grants permission to retrieve snapshots of metric widgets | Read |  |  |
Link [permission only] | Grants permission to share CloudWatch resources with a monitoring account | Write |  |  |
ListDashboards | Grants permission to return a list of all CloudWatch dashboards in your account | List |  |  |
ListManagedInsightRules | Grants permission to list available managed Insight Rules for a given Resource ARN | Read |  | aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys cloudwatch:requestManagedResourceARNs |
ListMetricStreams | Grants permission to return a list of all CloudWatch metric streams in your account | List |  |  |
ListMetrics | Grants permission to retrieve a list of valid metrics stored for the AWS account owner | List |  |  |
ListTagsForResource | Grants permission to list tags for an Amazon CloudWatch resource | List | alarm |  |
insight-rule |  |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-Alarm |  | alarm* |  |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-InsightRule |  | insight-rule* |  |
PutAnomalyDetector | Grants permission to create or update an anomaly detection model for a CloudWatch metric | Write |  |  |
PutCompositeAlarm | Grants permission to create or update a composite alarm | Write | alarm* |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys cloudwatch:AlarmActions |
PutDashboard | Grants permission to create a CloudWatch dashboard, or update an existing dashboard if it already exists | Write | dashboard* |  |
PutInsightRule | Grants permission to create a new insight rule or replace an existing insight rule | Write | insight-rule* |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys cloudwatch:requestInsightRuleLogGroups |
PutManagedInsightRules | Grants permission to create managed Insight Rules | Write |  | aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys cloudwatch:requestManagedResourceARNs |
PutMetricAlarm | Grants permission to create or update an alarm and associates it with the specified Amazon CloudWatch metric | Write | alarm* |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys cloudwatch:AlarmActions |
PutMetricData | Grants permission to publish metric data points to Amazon CloudWatch | Write |  | cloudwatch:namespace |
PutMetricStream | Grants permission to create a CloudWatch metric stream, or update an existing metric stream if it already exists | Write | metric-stream* |  |
| aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys |
SetAlarmState | Grants permission to temporarily set the state of an alarm for testing purposes | Write | alarm* |  |
StartMetricStreams | Grants permission to start all CloudWatch metric streams that you specify | Write | metric-stream* |  |
StopMetricStreams | Grants permission to stop all CloudWatch metric streams that you specify | Write | metric-stream* |  |
TagResource | Grants permission to add tags to an Amazon CloudWatch resource | Tagging | alarm |  |
insight-rule |  |
| aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-Alarm |  | alarm* |  |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-InsightRule |  | insight-rule* |  |
UntagResource | Grants permission to remove a tag from an Amazon CloudWatch resource | Tagging | alarm |  |
insight-rule |  |
| aws:TagKeys |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-Alarm |  | alarm* |  |
SCENARIO: CloudWatch-InsightRule |  | insight-rule* |  |

## Resource types defined by Amazon CloudWatch

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the `Resource` element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types | ARN | Condition keys
--- | --- | ---
alarm | `arn:${Partition}:cloudwatch:${Region}:${Account}:alarm:${AlarmName}` | aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
dashboard | `arn:${Partition}:cloudwatch::${Account}:dashboard/${DashboardName}` |
insight-rule | `arn:${Partition}:cloudwatch:${Region}:${Account}:insight-rule/${InsightRuleName}` | aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
metric-stream | `arn:${Partition}:cloudwatch:${Region}:${Account}:metric-stream/${MetricStreamName}` | aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

## Condition keys for Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch defines the following condition keys that can be used in the `Condition` element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys | Description | Type
--- | --- | ---
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} | Filters actions based on the allowed set of values for each of the tags | String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} | Filters actions based on tag-value associated with the resource | String
aws:TagKeys | Filters actions based on the presence of mandatory tags in the request | ArrayOfString
cloudwatch:AlarmActions | Filters actions based on defined alarm actions | ArrayOfString
cloudwatch:namespace | Filters actions based on the presence of optional namespace values | String
cloudwatch:requestInsightRuleLogGroups | Filters actions based on the Log Groups specified in an Insight Rule | ArrayOfString
cloudwatch:requestManagedResourceARNs | Filters access by the Resource ARNs specified in a managed Insight Rule | ArrayOfARN

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