CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy

Description: Permissions required to use AmazonCloudWatchAgent on servers

CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

Policy version

Policy version: v3 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "CWACloudWatchServerPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "logs:PutLogEvents",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "xray:PutTraceSegments",
        "xray:PutTelemetryRecords",
        "xray:GetSamplingRules",
        "xray:GetSamplingTargets",
        "xray:GetSamplingStatisticSummaries"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWASSMServerPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:GetParameter"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:parameter/AmazonCloudWatch-*"
    }
  ]
}

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