# Cloudwatch logs to Kafka using Elastic agent

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cloudwatch-logs-to-kafka-using-elastic-agent/372736>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cloudwatch-logs-to-kafka-using-elastic-agent/372736 "2025-01-03T08:25:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ErGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@ErGeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ErGeek)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cloudwatch-logs-to-kafka-using-elastic-agent/372736/1 "2025-01-03T08:25:23Z")

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Hi All,

We are trying to get Cloudwatch logs to Kafka using the elastic agent using the below config:

```auto
agent:
  logging:
    files:
      keepfiles: 7
      name: elastic-agent
      path: /var/log/elastic-agent/
      permissions: 420
    level: info
    to_files: true
inputs:
  - type: aws-cloudwatch
    region_name: "eu-west-1"
    log_group_name: "/aws/apprunner/app-admin-dev/*"
    role_arn: "arn:aws:iam::41:role/app-launcher"
monitoring:
  enabled: true
  logs: true
  metrics: true
  use_output: default
outputs:
  default:
    hosts:
    - b-1.:9094
    - b-2.:9094
    - b-3.:9094
    producer:
      compression: gzip
    ssl:
      enabled: true
      truststore_location: /etc/pki/tls/certs/kafka.client.truststore.jks
      truststore_password: ****
    topic: app_topic
    type: kafka

```

We are able to get the metric logs in the Kafka but the Cloudwatch logs are not coming. We could see the below error coming in the elastic-agent log files.

```auto
message":"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed with http status code 404"

```

Could anyone please help on getting these logs to Kafka ?