Obtaining connection values for Amazon CloudWatch

About this task

You can obtain the connection values (Secret access key and Access key ID) for Amazon CloudWatch and to connect to App Connect.

Procedure

  1. Log in to your AWS account.
    You can choose between Root user or IAM user based on your role.
    • Root user: Account owner that performs tasks requiring unrestricted access.
    • IAM user: User within an account that performs daily tasks.
    Note: AWS recommends using identity-based managed policies to attach permission sets and roles to an identity, and grant only the permissions the user needs. These policies control what actions that identity can perform, on which resources, and under what conditions. While setting the permissions for an identity in IAM, you can decide whether to use an AWS-managed policy, a customer-managed policy, or an inline policy.

    An AWS-managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. The following are some examples of AWS-managed policies that are specific to Amazon CloudWatch:

    • CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess policy provides full access to Amazon CloudWatch service and all connector operations are accessible.
    • CloudWatchApplicationInsightsReadOnlyAccess policy gives limited read-only access, and few connector operations are accessible.
    • CloudwatchApplicationInsightsServiceLinkedRole policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Application Insights to monitor customer resources.
    For more information about AWS-managed policies that are specific to Amazon CloudWatch, see AWS managed policies for Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights on the AWS documentation page.
  2. On the navigation menu, click Users.
  3. Select your applicable user name or account name.
  4. Click the Security credentials tab, and then click Create access key.
  5. To view the new access key, click Show.
    You can retrieve the secret access key only when you create the key pair for the first time.

    For more information, see AWS Account and Access Keys on the AWS documentation page.