# ELK cloud- kafka ec2 connection to visualize kafka-topic data on kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-cloud-kafka-ec2-connection-to-visualize-kafka-topic-data-on-kibana/219116>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-cloud-kafka-ec2-connection-to-visualize-kafka-topic-data-on-kibana/219116 "2020-02-13T04:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahulanand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@rahulanand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulanand)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-cloud-kafka-ec2-connection-to-visualize-kafka-topic-data-on-kibana/219116/1 "2020-02-13T04:34:32Z")

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Hi,

I want to link kafka to elasticsearch, kibana to visualize data from kafka-topic. I was able to do it on local via following this link: [https://logz.io/blog/deploying-kafka-with-elk/](https://logz.io/blog/deploying-kafka-with-elk/)

But i am not able to replicate the same on ELK cloud , which is on AWS. I have my kafka runnning on a separate ec2 aws instance . Can someone guide me on how to establish connection between elk cloud and kafka ec2 instance?

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-cloud-kafka-ec2-connection-to-visualize-kafka-topic-data-on-kibana/219116/2 "2020-02-20T15:04:55Z")

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Hi @rahulanand - this forum is specifically for questions relating to our cloud enterprise infrastructure ... it seems like this is a more generation question about use of Elasticsearch within EC2, so I've moved it to the Elasticsearch forum

Best of luck!

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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:** [March 19, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-cloud-kafka-ec2-connection-to-visualize-kafka-topic-data-on-kibana/219116/3 "2020-03-19T15:04:56Z")

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Closed on March 19, 2020, 3:04pm UTC

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