cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms

Read

cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms is a Read access-level action in the cloudwatch service. Grants permission to describe all alarms, currently owned by the user's account

Resource types

ARNs that cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:cloudwatch:${Region}:${Account}:alarm:${AlarmName}
alarm

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCloudwatchDescribeAlarms",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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