Sending logs to Elastic Cloud

[romankor]

Question

I dont seem to understand how to properly authenticate to elastic cloud
( elasticsearch sink )
given i have :
EC_CLOUD_ID and EC_CLOUD_CREDENTIALS from elastic , what would be the proper way to authenticate ?

Vector Config

  sinks:
    # Application logs to Elasticsearch
    elasticsearch:
      type: elasticsearch
      inputs:
        - app_k8s_metadata
      endpoints:
        - https://twingate-logs.es.us-central1.gcp.cloud.es.io:443
      mode: bulk
      api_version: v8
      
      # cloud_id: "${EC_CLOUD_ID}"  
      # api_key: "${EC_CLOUD_CREDENTIALS}"
      bulk:
        index: "vector-${ENV}-%Y.%m.%d"
        action: create
      batch:
        timeout_secs: 30
        max_events: 1000
      compression: gzip
      encoding:
        except_fields:
          - kubernetes.pod_labels
          - kubernetes.pod_annotations
      healthcheck:
        enabled: true
      request:
        retry_attempts: 5
        retry_initial_backoff_secs: 1
        retry_max_duration_secs: 10
        timeout_secs: 60

Vector Logs

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