# Unable to see the spring boot application logs in ElasticCloud APM **URL:** \ **Category:** Logs\ **Tags:** java\ **Created:** [May 26, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-see-the-spring-boot-application-logs-in-elasticcloud-apm/334473 "2023-05-26T20:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ramakrr77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@ramakrr77](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramakrr77)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-see-the-spring-boot-application-logs-in-elasticcloud-apm/334473/1 "2023-05-26T20:00:13Z")
If you are asking about a problem you are experiencing, please use the following template, as it will help us help you. If you have a different problem, please delete all of this text 🙂 TIP 1: select at least one tag that further categorizes your topic. For example `server` for APM Server related questions, `java` for questions regarding the Elastic APM Java agent, or `ui` for questions about the APM App within Kibana. TIP 2: Check out the [troubleshooting guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/current/troubleshooting.html) first. Not only will it help you to resolve common problems faster but it also explains in more detail which information we need before we can properly help you. **Kibana version** : 7.17.6 **Elasticsearch version** : 7.17.6 **APM Server version** : 7.17.6 **APM Agent language and version** : Java 11 **Browser version** : Chrome 113 **Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, deb, from source, etc.) and version**: Elastic Cloud **Fresh install or upgraded from other version?** Elastic CLoud **Is there anything special in your setup?** For example, are you using the Logstash or Kafka outputs? Are you using a load balancer in front of the APM Servers? Have you changed index pattern, generated custom templates, changed agent configuration etc. No Load balancers setup **Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)**: Written Spring Boot Application service using Java. Building the application through Maven. 1. I used APM library and logback encoder in depencies in Maven \ co.elastic.apm apm-agent-attach 1.20.0 co.elastic.logging logback-ecs-encoder 1.5.0 \ 1. We have build the properties to read the APM Configurations like this \ elastic.apm.enabled=true elastic.apm.server\_url = elastic.apm.service\_name =customer-insights elastic.apm.secret\_token = elastic.apm.environment =dev elastic.apm.application\_packages =com.search.customerinsights.\* elastic.apm.log\_level =DEBUG elastic.apm.log\_sending =true elastic.apm.enable\_log\_correlation =true elastic.apm.log\_ecs\_reformatting =OVERRIDE \ 2. We can see the service in the APM in our dev cluster. 3. But when we see the logs tab, it says there are no log messages to display. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/4/14c7007fc0a46e799f82644bafb3a84509a43049.png) 4. In java application code we are using slf4j logger like this \ import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j; @Slf4j public class CustomerInsightsController { log.info("CustomerInsightsController - getCustomerInsights: for a given user : " + request.getUser\_id()); } \ **Steps to reproduce** : 1. Build the sample application 2. Load the APM 3. Connect to the APM server and integrate the logs. Do we need to setup the filebeat? I'm trying to setup the filebeat also. I'm configuring file beat. We are using Elastic Cloud and set the cloud.id and cloud.auth keys in filebeat.yml file but giving authentication error. Exiting: couldn't connect to any of the configured Elasticsearch hosts. Errors: [error connecting to Elasticsearch at [https://sakjdfhaslkdfjhasdflkjashdflkasjdhf0.us-east-1.aws.found.io:443](https://sakjdfhaslkdfjhasdflkjashdflkasjdhf0.us-east-1.aws.found.io:443): 401 Unauthorized: {"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"security\_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elasticclient] for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"","Bearer realm="security"","ApiKey"]}}],"type":"security\_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [elasticclient] for REST request [/]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"","Bearer realm="security"","ApiKey"]}},"status":401}] ---
**Author:** ![Jonas\_Kunz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jonas_kunz/32/110740_2.png) [@Jonas\_Kunz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jonas_Kunz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-see-the-spring-boot-application-logs-in-elasticcloud-apm/334473/2 "2023-06-02T09:26:56Z")
Whether you want to use logging to files + filebeat to ship your logs or the APM agent based log sending depends on your requirements. See [this page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/apm-agent-log-sending.html) for a comparison. To get running quickly, I would recommend you to start with agent based log sending. In order to see why your APM agent is currently not sending the looks we will need the debug logs from the agent. Please follow [this procedure](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/apm-agent-log-sending.html) and provide us the debug logs. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-see-the-spring-boot-application-logs-in-elasticcloud-apm/334473/3 "2023-06-30T09:27:00Z")
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