# CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy
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**Description**: Policy grants permission to CloudWatch Application Signals to collect monitoring and tagging data from other relevant AWS services.

`CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy` 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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This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service-linked role policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 09, 2023, 18:09 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:00 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v11 (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" : "XRayPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "xray:GetServiceGraph"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWLogsPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:GetQueryResults"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/appsignals/*:*",
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/application-signals/data:*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWListMetricsPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWGetMetricDataPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "TagsPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ApplicationSignalsPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "application-signals:ListServiceLevelObjectiveExclusionWindows",
        "application-signals:GetServiceLevelObjective"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2AutoScalingPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "resource-explorer-2:Search"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudTrailServiceLinkedChannelCreationPermission",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [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)