cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric

Read

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

Resource types

This action does not support resource-level permissions; use "Resource": "*" in your policy.

Condition keys

No condition keys are documented for this action.

Example IAM policy

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

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

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