# CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: Provides read only access to CloudWatch.

`CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess` 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 `CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v24 (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" : "CloudWatchReadOnlyAccessPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-signals:BatchGet*",
        "application-signals:Get*",
        "application-signals:List*",
        "autoscaling:Describe*",
        "cloudtrail:ListChannels",
        "cloudwatch:BatchGet*",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:GenerateQuery",
        "cloudwatch:Get*",
        "cloudwatch:List*",
        "logs:Get*",
        "logs:List*",
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:StopQuery",
        "logs:Describe*",
        "logs:TestMetricFilter",
        "logs:FilterLogEvents",
        "logs:StartLiveTail",
        "logs:StopLiveTail",
        "oam:ListSinks",
        "observabilityadmin:GetCentralizationRuleForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:ListCentralizationRulesForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEvaluationStatus",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEvaluationStatusForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryRule",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryRuleForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:ListResourceTelemetry",
        "observabilityadmin:ListResourceTelemetryForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryRules",
        "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryRulesForOrganization",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryEnrichmentStatus",
        "observabilityadmin:ListTagsForResource",
        "observabilityadmin:GetTelemetryPipeline",
        "observabilityadmin:ListTelemetryPipelines",
        "observabilityadmin:TestTelemetryPipeline",
        "observabilityadmin:ValidateTelemetryPipelineConfiguration",
        "observabilityadmin:GetS3TableIntegration",
        "observabilityadmin:ListS3TableIntegrations",
        "sns:Get*",
        "sns:List*",
        "rum:BatchGet*",
        "rum:Get*",
        "rum:List*",
        "synthetics:Describe*",
        "synthetics:Get*",
        "synthetics:List*",
        "xray:BatchGet*",
        "xray:Get*",
        "xray:List*",
        "xray:StartTraceRetrieval",
        "xray:CancelTraceRetrieval"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "OAMReadPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchReadOnlyGetRolePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchCloudTrailPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudtrail:GetChannel"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchServiceQuotaPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "servicequotas:GetServiceQuota"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:s3/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:dynamodb/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:kinesis/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:sns/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:bedrock/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:lambda/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:fargate/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:elasticloadbalancing/*",
        "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:ec2/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchResourceExplorerPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "resource-explorer-2:ListIndexes",
        "resource-explorer-2:Search"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignals/service-view",
        "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignalsOrgScopeProd/service-view"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)