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IAM permissions required for Functionbeat deployment

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IAM permissions required for Functionbeat deployment

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The role used to deploy Functionbeat to AWS must have the minimum privileges required to deploy and run the Lambda function.

The following sections show example policies that grant the required permissions.

CloudWatch logs

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The following policy grants the permissions required to deploy and run a Lambda function that collects events from CloudWatch logs.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:CreateStack",
                "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
                "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
                "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "iam:DeleteRole",
                "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:GetRolePolicy",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "iam:PutRolePolicy",
                "lambda:AddPermission",
                "lambda:CreateFunction",
                "lambda:DeleteFunction",
                "lambda:GetFunction",
                "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
                "lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency",
                "lambda:RemovePermission",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionCode",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration",
                "logs:CreateLogGroup",
                "logs:DeleteLogGroup",
                "logs:DeleteSubscriptionFilter",
                "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
                "logs:PutSubscriptionFilter",
                "s3:CreateBucket",
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

SQS and Kinesis

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The following policy grants the permissions required to deploy and run a Lambda function that reads from SQS queues or Kinesis data streams.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:CreateStack",
                "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
                "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
                "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "iam:DeleteRole",
                "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:GetRolePolicy",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "iam:PutRolePolicy",
                "lambda:AddPermission",
                "lambda:CreateFunction",
                "lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping",
                "lambda:DeleteFunction",
                "lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping",
                "lambda:GetEventSourceMapping",
                "lambda:GetFunction",
                "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
                "lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency",
                "lambda:RemovePermission",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionCode",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration",
                "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
                "logs:CreateLogGroup",
                "s3:CreateBucket",
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
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