Creating a User and Granting Permissions

This chapter describes how to use IAM for fine-grained permissions control for your APM resources. With IAM, you can:

• Create IAM users for employees based on your enterprise's organizational structure. Each IAM user will have their own security credentials for accessing APM resources.
• Manage permissions on a principle of least permissions (PoLP) basis.
• Entrust an account or cloud service to perform efficient O&M on your APM resources.

If your account does not need individual IAM users, skip this chapter.

This section describes the procedure for granting permissions (see Figure 1).

Process Flow

Supported Cloud Services

Figure 1 Process for granting APM permissions

1. Creating a User Group and Assigning Permissions

   Create a user group on the IAM console, and assign the APM ReadOnlyAccess policy to the group.

2. Creating an IAM User

   Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.

3. Logging In as an IAM User and Verifying Permissions

   Log in to the APM console using the created user, and verify that the user only has read permissions for APM.