Amazon SNS

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": [
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
        "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:ListSubscriptions"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "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

SNS Topic

Name	Description
ARN	The Amazon Resource Name of the topic.
Average Size of Messages Published (Bytes)	The average size of published messages.
Confirmed Subscriptions	The number of confirmed subscriptions on this topic.
Deleted Subscriptions	The number of deleted subscriptions on this topic.
Delivered Notifications	The number of messages successfully delivered.
Failed Notifications	The number of messages that failed to deliver.
Name	The name of the topic which is also used in the "From" field of emails.
Owner	The account ID of the topic's owner.
Pending Subscriptions	The number of subscriptions pending confirmation on this topic.
Published Messages	The number of messages published.
Region	The AWS Region this object belongs to.
SMS Success Rate	The rate of successful SMS message deliveries.