# Monitoring AWS EC2 using Metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304 "2020-02-07T09:41:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![bsteele1832](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@bsteele1832](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bsteele1832)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304/1 "2020-02-07T09:41:02Z")

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I can't get Metricbeat to collect data from AWS about my EC2 instances. I have done the following:

1. Installed Metricbeat.
2. Enables the AWS module.
3. Configured the modules.d/aws.yml in a million differnt ways.
4. Started Metricbeat using ./metricbeat -e

When I check the AWS portal I can see that my user for Metricbeats is not being accessed at all indicating that Metricbeats is not reaching out to AWS. As far as I can tell everything is configured and I have system monitoring fine so I understand the concepts correctly!

Please help me.

Regards,  
Brian Steele

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Kristiansen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_kristiansen/32/46086_2.png) [@Alex\_Kristiansen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Kristiansen)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304/2 "2020-02-07T18:50:40Z")

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@bsteele1832

Can you post your metricbeat and aws module config?

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304/3 "2020-02-08T13:38:17Z")

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Could you also show some logs from Metricbeat too please? Thanks!

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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 7, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-ec2-using-metricbeat/218304/4 "2020-03-07T13:38:19Z")

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