# Setup functionbeat with elasticsearch on ECK
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150 "2020-08-07T10:09:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Kay\_Khan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kay_Khan)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150/1 "2020-08-07T10:09:06Z")
Hi friends,
Im looking into setting up functionbeat to ship aws cloudwatch logs to elasticsearch. Ive been looking at the following documentation to setup functionbeat [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/functionbeat/current](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/functionbeat/current)
From what i understand ECK does not support this beat [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-beat.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-beat.html). Im not sure it will as it seems completely separate from Kubernetes. What is your take on this?
However there is a section in the functionbeat configuration where i need to point to my elasticsearch cluster on port 9200. How should i deal with this given that my elasticsearch cluster is within kubernetes.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/functionbeat/current/functionbeat-configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/functionbeat/current/functionbeat-configuration.html)
```
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["myEShost:9200"]
username: "filebeat_internal"
password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
setup.kibana:
host: "mykibanahost:5601"
username: "my_kibana_user"
password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
```
Is this as simple as exposing my elasticsearch service on port 9200 publicly via loadbalancer? Right now ive only exposed kibana publicly.
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### Author:  [@Anya\_Sabo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anya_Sabo)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150/2 "2020-08-10T13:53:41Z")
You can follow the instructions for setting up a community beat (which is a section we should probably rename as we really mean "any beat not explicitly supported") [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-beat-configuration.html#k8s-beat-deploy-community-beat) which should get you going
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### Author:  [@Kay\_Khan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kay_Khan)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150/3 "2020-10-01T10:33:54Z")
I don't understand how community beat helps because functionbeat is not deployed to kubernetes its deployed as a cloud function eg aws lambda function.
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### Author:  [@Sara\_Galal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sara_Galal)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150/4 "2022-09-28T07:30:39Z")
is there any way now to deploy functionbeat to kubernates as pod ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-functionbeat-with-elasticsearch-on-eck/244150/5 "2022-11-04T08:09:13Z")