# How to download aws cloudwatch log data?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 31, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158 "2017-07-31T09:41:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/1 "2017-07-31T09:41:04Z")
Please tell me about
How to download aws cloudwatch log data?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/2 "2017-07-31T09:44:51Z")
Probably with [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-cloudwatch.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-cloudwatch.html).
If that's not what you want then providing more detail would be helpful.
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### Author:  [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/3 "2017-07-31T09:47:01Z")
I looked into it but it was not helping it returns with an error always as it can not find metrics???
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/4 "2017-07-31T09:47:34Z")
Providing the error and your config would be helpful.
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### Author:  [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/5 "2017-07-31T09:50:37Z")
This is my conf file
input {
cloudwatch {
region =\> "us-east-1"
access\_key\_id =\> "1111"
secret\_access\_key =\> "11111"
namespace =\> "AWS/EC2"
metrics =\> ["CPUUtilization"]
filters =\> { "Volumes: { attachment.status ⇒ attached }" }
}
}
output {
elasticsearch{ hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] index =\> "EC2\_CloudWatch1" }
stdout{ codec =\> "rubydebug" }
}
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/7 "2017-07-31T09:59:41Z")
> [@wolfghost](#):
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> ow disk watermark [85%] exceeded on [l4H0pVDkQtO\_BsXq8BAzeA][l4H0pVD][C:\ELK\elasticsearch-5.5.1\data\nodes\0] free: 10.9gb[11.2%], replicas will not be assigned to this node
You are low on disk space.
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### Author:  [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/9 "2017-07-31T10:27:00Z")
Now i am able to access logs.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-download-aws-cloudwatch-log-data/95158/10 "2017-08-28T10:27:08Z")
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