# Approaches to run metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/approaches-to-run-metricbeat/247435>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/approaches-to-run-metricbeat/247435 "2020-09-03T18:37:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![nan140114](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nan140114/32/48115_2.png) [@nan140114](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nan140114)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/approaches-to-run-metricbeat/247435/1 "2020-09-03T18:37:36Z")

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Hello. I'm trying to set up metricbeat to monitor metrics from cloudwatch. I mean, I wanna send some metrics (ec2, rds, s3 ) from cloudwatch to ELK. I take a look to functionbeat but it's just for CW logs. So, the right tool is metricbeat. We're running ELK on Elastic Cloud-managed infrastructure. So, I just need to set up the data shipper.  
The obvious approach is to create a metricbeat agent ( ec2 server) to query the data from CW API and sends it to Kibana. My doubt is. There is another way/approach to achieve this? IDK some lambda function or another tool like metricbeat to write a code/function that gets the same result that metricbeat? Thank you so much.

Approaches to run metricbeat

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/approaches-to-run-metricbeat/247435/2 "2020-09-04T08:43:17Z")

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Hi!

There is a specific Metricbeat module for AWS: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-aws.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-aws.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/approaches-to-run-metricbeat/247435/3 "2020-10-02T10:43:24Z")

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