# Question regarding specifying "localhost" and deploying to Lambda

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-specifying-localhost-and-deploying-to-lambda/195332>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** functionbeat\
**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-specifying-localhost-and-deploying-to-lambda/195332 "2019-08-15T11:35:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![asad\_ali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asad_ali/32/47894_2.png) [@asad\_ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asad_ali)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-regarding-specifying-localhost-and-deploying-to-lambda/195332/5 "2019-08-20T16:19:09Z")

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This is strange and contrary, to my post here

> [@Ghost index unable to populate itself under '\_docs' | functionbeat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ghost-index-unable-to-populate-itself-under-docs-functionbeat/195873):
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> I'm using functionbeat 7.1, and after great pain and countless night i was able to deploy 'function'. The inbuilt tutorial is very insufficient for development setups, as it lacks 'in-between' setups/details and configuration. For e.g i had to add env variable ENABLED\_FUNCTONS to name of function name given in functions.yml to make it work. My uncommented \*.yml looks like functionbeat.provider.aws.functions: - name: fun-aws enabled: true type: cloudwatch\_logs description: "lambd…

My ES is not exposed to internet but when I run ./functionbeat im getting messages on my cli?

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