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HealthCheck is missing permission to access Cloudwatch Metrics

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, python
Domain
cloud, security

Research direction

Locate the healthcheck function and the CloudWatch permission definition in the repository, then inspect how its managed policies are configured. Confirm that the healthcheck can call cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics while retaining read-only access without unnecessary write permissions.

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Description

The healthcheck function fails for me, because it is missing the permission cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics.
Looking at all managed policies for Cloudwatch, I believe CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess would be the most reasonable, as it does not grant any unnecessary write permissions.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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