# How to support AWS cloudwatch metric stream to Elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** beats-module, metricbeat
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672 "2021-07-26T22:14:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@zhaoyi0113](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zhaoyi0113)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/1 "2021-07-26T22:14:55Z")
I am deploying applications to AWS including various services. I am planning to use Kibana and Elasticsearch to view metrics from Cloudwatch. I know I can configure metricbeat by using AWS module which works as a crawler to pull metrics data from AWS to Elasticsearch. But there is another mode which is to use Cloudwatch metric stream to stream metics data to analytics platform.
I wonder how does metricbeat support stream data to Elasticsearch. Is there a metrics server I can use to listen on the metric data stream?
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### Author:  [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/2 "2021-07-27T01:21:54Z")
What do u mean exactly? Are you asking if the data from the cloudwatch metricbeat module can be sent somewhere besides elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/3 "2021-07-27T02:57:25Z")
Hi @zhaoyi0113 welcome to the community.
Today Metricbeat does not directly support the new Cloudwatch Metric stream.
You could ingest that data with Logstash with the kinesis input.
I do not have insight at this time whether the Cloudwatch Metric stream is on the Metricbeat roadmap. If I find out I will post back here.
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### Author:  [@zhaoyi0113](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zhaoyi0113)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/4 "2021-07-27T05:03:46Z")
I can ingest these data into elasticsearch. How can I make Kibana to recognise the metric data and show them in the metrics view? Is there any data format I should follow?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/5 "2021-07-27T14:04:00Z")
Hi @zhaoyi0113
To be transparent I suspect there would need to be considerable field mapping exercise to do it on your own.
The [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/index.html) is the Elastic Common Schema
My suggestion would to be use the Metricbeat Cloudwatch module first so you could see all the fields etc and then work from there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-support-aws-cloudwatch-metric-stream-to-elasticsearch/279672/6 "2021-08-24T16:04:49Z")
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