# CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: 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.

`CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 12, 2024, 23:11 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** November 12, 2024, 23:11 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchInternetMonitorReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v1 (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
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```
{
  "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" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)