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IAM permissions required to deploy Functionbeat

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IAM permissions required to deploy Functionbeat

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This section describes the minimum privileges or roles required to deploy functions to your cloud provider.

Permissions required by AWS

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The list of required permissions depends on the type of events that you are collecting. Here are some example policies that grant the required privileges.

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",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
            ],
            "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",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
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