Minimum Permissions Required for Acquiring Traffic using the Customer Orchestrated Source with GwLB

Prerequisites:

Before configuring the required permissions and previleges in AWS, you must install GigaVUE-FM. Refer to Install GigaVUE-FM on AWS for more detailed information.

These are the minimum permissions that are required to acquire traffic using Customer Orchestrated Source with Gateway Load Balancer and authenticate using an IAM instance role.

{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",
  "Statement":[
    {
      "Sid":"VisualEditor0",
      "Effect":"Allow",
      "Action":[
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServiceConfigurations",

	"ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",

        "iam:ListAccountAliases",
        "ram:CreateResourceShare",
        "ram:DeleteResourceShare",
        "ram:AssociateResourceShare",
        "ram:GetResourceShareInvitations",
        "ram:AcceptResourceShareInvitation",
        "ram:DisassociateResourceShare",
        "kms:ListAliases"

	"kms:GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext"
      ],
      "Resource":"*"
    }
  ]

For more information regarding policies and permissions, refer to AWS Documentation.

If you are using inline policy or basic authentication, then you must update the policy with the relevant IAM service. For more information, see GigaVUE-FM Instance Multi Account Support Using Amazon STS.

What to do Next:

Configure the AWS credentials in GigaVUE-FM to monitor workloads across multiple AWS accounts within one Monitoring Domain. Refer to Create AWS Credentials for more details.