# How to point logstash to my elasticcloud instance
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-logstash-to-my-elasticcloud-instance/238443
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-logstash-to-my-elasticcloud-instance/238443 "2020-06-24T11:22:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Martijn\_van\_Iersel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Martijn_van_Iersel)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-logstash-to-my-elasticcloud-instance/238443/1 "2020-06-24T11:22:20Z")
Hello, I signed up for an elasticcloud trial and I'm trying to configure logstash to send my apache logs to my elasticcloud/elasticsearch instance.
I'm super confused about how to configure logstash.
The example here shows how to configure logstash when elasticsearch is running on localhost:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/configuration.html)
The documentation here seems to imply that I only need to set cloud.id and cloud.auth
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/connecting-to-cloud.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/connecting-to-cloud.html)
But how do I connect the pipeline output to my cloud id? Is an output created automatically is I set cloud.id? If not, what do I fill in as "hosts" for my elasticsearch output?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-logstash-to-my-elasticcloud-instance/238443/2 "2020-07-22T11:22:32Z")
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