# Monitoring AWS Environment **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [July 1, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-environment/308623 "2022-07-01T05:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JypraGroup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@JypraGroup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JypraGroup)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-environment/308623/1 "2022-07-01T05:06:08Z")
Hi All, I need some advice! We have a AWS CloudWatch collecting all the logs from different sources (WAF, application, EC2 etc.), and we need to pull those logs into Elastic for monitoring from both the application availability and performance perspective (We will be looking into APM as well) and I have come across this [Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Observability Guide [8.3] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/monitor-aws.html#monitor-aws) link, I am unclear why filebeat is required if we just want to pull logs from CloudWatch. Has anyone implemented this successfully? Appreciate your help. Regards, ---
**Author:** ![legoguy1000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/legoguy1000/32/54301_2.png) [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-environment/308623/2 "2022-07-02T13:49:07Z")
Because u need some sort of agent to pull the logs from cloud watch. Elasticsearch can't do that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-aws-environment/308623/3 "2022-07-30T15:49:20Z")
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