Amazon CloudSearch

Least Privileged User

Navigate to the AWS console and create an IAM user with programmatic access. The user will need the following permissions. You can create a policy specifically for these permissions and apply the permissions to the user.

For more information, see: High Level AWS Source Configuration

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudsearch:DescribeServiceAccessPolicies",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeSuggesters",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeAvailabilityOptions",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudsearch:search",
        "cloudsearch:ListTags",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudsearch:ListDomainNames",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeScalingParameters",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeIndexFields",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeAnalysisSchemes",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeExpressions",
        "cloudsearch:DescribeDomains",
        "cloudsearch:suggest"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Connection Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
Region
Access Key ID	Required
Secret Access Key	Required
Additional Threads		The number of additional threads allowed to be utilized during collection.
Request Timeout (seconds)		The number of seconds to allow for the API to return a response.
Collect CloudWatch Metrics
CloudWatch Historic Mode		If enabled, retrieves a history of data points from CloudWatch. Otherwise, collects only the most recent data point for each metric.

Metrics

Domain

Name	Description
Client ID	The AWS account ID.
Index Utilization (%)	The percentage of the search instance's index capacity that has been used.
Name	The name of the search domain.
Partitions	The number of partitions the index is distributed across.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
Searchable Documents	The number of searchable documents in the domain's search index.
Successful Requests	The number of search requests successfully processed by a search instance.