# CloudWatch alarms for application health permissions
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 The following is a sample policy to attach to access CloudWatch alarms for application health, which are used to help determine actual recovery time. 

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```
{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",		 	 	 
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-1:123456789012:alarm:app-health-primary",
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-west-2:123456789012:alarm:app-health-secondary"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

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