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Why is AWS Addon is not fetching any metrics from Cloudwatch?

Brausepaule
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Hi All,

 

i saw that there have been previous posts about this topic, but none resolves my issue.

I have created a IAM role with CloudWatchFullAccess and i assigned it to the EC2 Instance Splun k is running on. And the role was auto-discovered and when setting up an Input for CloudWatch i was able to use that role.

So sofar everything is peachy, but i get no metrics in the configured Index.

Am I missing a policy for the IAM Role?

 

Kind regards,

Mike

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Brausepaule
Path Finder

I found this policy...not sure if everything in there is needed, but as a start it works:

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"apigateway:GET",
"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
"cloudformation:ListResources",
"cloudformation:GetResource",
"cloudfront:GetDistributionConfig",
"cloudfront:ListDistributions",
"cloudfront:ListTagsForResource",
"cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
"directconnect:DescribeConnections",
"dynamodb:DescribeTable",
"dynamodb:ListTables",
"dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
"ec2:DescribeInstances",
"ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
"ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
"ec2:DescribeRegions",
"ec2:DescribeReservedInstances",
"ec2:DescribeReservedInstancesModifications",
"ec2:DescribeTags",
"ec2:DescribeVolumes",
"ecs:DescribeClusters",
"ecs:DescribeServices",
"ecs:DescribeTasks",
"ecs:ListClusters",
"ecs:ListServices",
"ecs:ListTagsForResource",
"ecs:ListTaskDefinitions",
"ecs:ListTasks",
"eks:DescribeCluster",
"eks:ListClusters",
"elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
"elasticmapreduce:DescribeCluster",
"elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
"es:DescribeElasticsearchDomain",
"es:ListDomainNames",
"kinesis:DescribeStream",
"kinesis:ListShards",
"kinesis:ListStreams",
"kinesis:ListTagsForStream",
"kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
"kinesisanalytics:DescribeApplication",
"lambda:GetAlias",
"lambda:ListFunctions",
"lambda:ListTags",
"logs:DeleteSubscriptionFilter",
"logs:DescribeLogGroups",
"logs:DescribeSubscriptionFilters",
"logs:PutSubscriptionFilter",
"organizations:DescribeOrganization",
"rds:DescribeDBInstances",
"rds:DescribeDBClusters",
"rds:ListTagsForResource",
"redshift:DescribeClusters",
"redshift:DescribeLoggingStatus",
"s3:GetBucketLocation",
"s3:GetBucketLogging",
"s3:GetBucketNotification",
"s3:GetBucketTagging",
"s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
"s3:ListBucket",
"s3:PutBucketNotification",
"sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
"sqs:ListQueues",
"sqs:ListQueueTags",
"states:ListActivities",
"states:ListStateMachines",
"tag:GetResources",
"workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}

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Brausepaule
Path Finder

I found this policy...not sure if everything in there is needed, but as a start it works:

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"apigateway:GET",
"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
"cloudformation:ListResources",
"cloudformation:GetResource",
"cloudfront:GetDistributionConfig",
"cloudfront:ListDistributions",
"cloudfront:ListTagsForResource",
"cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
"cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
"directconnect:DescribeConnections",
"dynamodb:DescribeTable",
"dynamodb:ListTables",
"dynamodb:ListTagsOfResource",
"ec2:DescribeInstances",
"ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
"ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
"ec2:DescribeRegions",
"ec2:DescribeReservedInstances",
"ec2:DescribeReservedInstancesModifications",
"ec2:DescribeTags",
"ec2:DescribeVolumes",
"ecs:DescribeClusters",
"ecs:DescribeServices",
"ecs:DescribeTasks",
"ecs:ListClusters",
"ecs:ListServices",
"ecs:ListTagsForResource",
"ecs:ListTaskDefinitions",
"ecs:ListTasks",
"eks:DescribeCluster",
"eks:ListClusters",
"elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
"elasticmapreduce:DescribeCluster",
"elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
"es:DescribeElasticsearchDomain",
"es:ListDomainNames",
"kinesis:DescribeStream",
"kinesis:ListShards",
"kinesis:ListStreams",
"kinesis:ListTagsForStream",
"kinesisanalytics:ListApplications",
"kinesisanalytics:DescribeApplication",
"lambda:GetAlias",
"lambda:ListFunctions",
"lambda:ListTags",
"logs:DeleteSubscriptionFilter",
"logs:DescribeLogGroups",
"logs:DescribeSubscriptionFilters",
"logs:PutSubscriptionFilter",
"organizations:DescribeOrganization",
"rds:DescribeDBInstances",
"rds:DescribeDBClusters",
"rds:ListTagsForResource",
"redshift:DescribeClusters",
"redshift:DescribeLoggingStatus",
"s3:GetBucketLocation",
"s3:GetBucketLogging",
"s3:GetBucketNotification",
"s3:GetBucketTagging",
"s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
"s3:ListBucket",
"s3:PutBucketNotification",
"sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
"sqs:ListQueues",
"sqs:ListQueueTags",
"states:ListActivities",
"states:ListStateMachines",
"tag:GetResources",
"workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}

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