# Logstash cloudwatch plugin no cloudfront metric

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-cloudwatch-plugin-no-cloudfront-metric/178131>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 23, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-cloudwatch-plugin-no-cloudfront-metric/178131 "2019-04-23T23:51:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![nt-josh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dfb087/32.png) [@nt-josh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nt-josh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-cloudwatch-plugin-no-cloudfront-metric/178131/1 "2019-04-23T23:51:19Z")

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Hi,

I am using logstash 6.6 docker container with elastic and kibana. for right now I am just messing with the logstash part.

I am trying to output the cloudwatch metrics for CloudFront to stdout debug and unfortunately I don't seem to be getting data. I get data for EC2 so i know in general the plugin works. However, i get nothing for CloudFront.

Here is my example config.  
input {  
cloudwatch {  
metrics =\> ["Requests"]  
region =\> "us-east-1"  
namespace =\> "AWS/CloudFront"  
filters =\> { DistributionId =\> E1LUI2I6F05BGW Region=\>Global}  
statistics =\> ["Sum"]  
access\_key\_id =\> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  
secret\_access\_key =\> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  
}  
}

output {  
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }  
}

I see this in the output.

> [2019-04-23T23:45:18,894][INFO][logstash.inputs.cloudwatch] [Aws::CloudWatch::Client 200 0.197245 0 retries] get\_metric\_statistics(namespace:"AWS/CloudFront",metric\_name:"Requests",start\_time:2019-04-23 23:30:18 UTC,end\_time:2019-04-23 23:45:18 UTC,period:300,statistics:["Sum"],dimensions:[{name:"DistributionId",value:"[FILTERED]"}])

> [2019-04-23T23:45:18,992][INFO][logstash.inputs.cloudwatch] [Aws::CloudWatch::Client 200 0.088867 0 retries] get\_metric\_statistics(namespace:"AWS/CloudFront",metric\_name:"Requests",start\_time:2019-04-23 23:30:18 UTC,end\_time:2019-04-23 23:45:18 UTC,period:300,statistics:["Sum"],dimensions:[{name:"Region",value:"[FILTERED]"}])

But no statistics like

> {  
> "maximum" =\> 968845138.0,  
> "metric\_name" =\> "NetworkOut",  
> "unit" =\> "Bytes",  
> "average" =\> 728685898.6666666,  
> "start\_time" =\> 2019-04-23T23:34:54.000Z,  
> "@version" =\> "1",  
> "end\_time" =\> 2019-04-23T23:49:54.000Z,  
> "period" =\> 300,  
> "sample\_count" =\> 6.0,  
> "sum" =\> 4372115392.0,  
> "timestamp" =\> 2019-04-23T23:34:00.000Z,  
> "minimum" =\> 513890069.0,  
> "InstanceId" =\> "i-02cb7332f4ded8e12",  
> "namespace" =\> "AWS/EC2",  
> "@timestamp" =\> 2019-04-23T23:49:54.630Z  
> }

I have wrote my own script to see if i can get metrics from that distribution id and I do.

> cw\_conn = boto3.client('cloudwatch',region\_name='us-east-1')  
> cf\_response = cw\_conn.get\_metric\_statistics(  
> Namespace='AWS/CloudFront',  
> MetricName='Requests',  
> Dimensions=[  
> {  
> 'Name': 'DistributionId',  
> 'Value': 'E1LUI2I6F05BGW'  
> },{  
> 'Name' : 'Region',  
> 'Value': 'Global'  
> }  
> ],  
> Period=300,  
> Statistics=[  
> 'Sum'  
> ],  
> StartTime=datetime(2019,4,23,23,1,11),  
> EndTime=datetime(2019,4,23,23,16,11)  
> )

pprint(cf\_response)

> {'Datapoints': [{'Sum': 159.0,  
> 'Timestamp': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 23, 23, 6, tzinfo=tzutc()),  
> 'Unit': 'None'},  
> {'Sum': 163.0,  
> 'Timestamp': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 23, 23, 11, tzinfo=tzutc()),  
> 'Unit': 'None'},  
> {'Sum': 181.0,  
> 'Timestamp': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 23, 23, 1, tzinfo=tzutc()),  
> 'Unit': 'None'}],  
> 'Label': 'Requests',  
> 'ResponseMetadata': {'HTTPHeaders': {'content-length': '750',  
> 'content-type': 'text/xml',  
> 'date': 'Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:31:41 GMT',  
> 'x-amzn-requestid': 'f2e3b77c-661f-11e9-8a2a-7fbfd7b895b1'},  
> 'HTTPStatusCode': 200,  
> 'RequestId': 'f2e3b77c-661f-11e9-8a2a-7fbfd7b895b1',  
> 'RetryAttempts': 0}}

but again. no metrics from the cloudwatch logstash plugin

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-cloudwatch-plugin-no-cloudfront-metric/178131/2 "2019-05-21T23:51:28Z")

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