# Trying to send logs to AWS CloudWatch via logstash output plugin

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-send-logs-to-aws-cloudwatch-via-logstash-output-plugin/320238
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 1, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-send-logs-to-aws-cloudwatch-via-logstash-output-plugin/320238 "2022-12-01T12:25:54Z")
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### Author: ![Randika\_Madhushan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randika_madhushan/32/97770_2.png) [@Randika\_Madhushan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Randika_Madhushan)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-send-logs-to-aws-cloudwatch-via-logstash-output-plugin/320238/1 "2022-12-01T12:25:54Z")

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Hello there,

Currently, I'm trying to send the applications logs to AWS CloudWatch via logstash agent output plugin. So I tried the below configuration. But that did not work. Could you please help with this?

```auto
input {
  file {
    path => "/var/log/messages"
    start_position => beginning
    tags => ["msg-log"]
  }
}

filter {
  grok {
    match => { "message" => "%{MONTH:month}%{SPACE}%{MONTHDAY:date}%{SPACE}%{TIME:time}%{SPACE}%{GREEDYDATA:msg}" }
  }
  date {
    match => ["timestamp", "MMM dd HH:mm:ss"]
    target => "@timestamp"
  }
}

output {
  if "msg-log" in [tags] {
    cloudwatch {
      region => "us-west-2"
      access_key_id => "XXXXXXXXXX"
      secret_access_key => "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
    }
  }
}

```

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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: [December 29, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-send-logs-to-aws-cloudwatch-via-logstash-output-plugin/320238/2 "2022-12-29T12:26:00Z")

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