Trouble Logging from Laravel (Local) to Remote Elasticsearch on AWS – Any Tips?

Hey everyone!

I'm working on a Laravel project locally and for a test trying to send application logs to a **remote Elasticsearch cluster hosted on AWS**.

The idea is to centralize logs for auditability, and I'm using **Monolog** to push logs to a specific index.

# What I’ve done so far:

* Set up Laravel to use a custom Monolog handler with the `elasticsearch/elasticsearch` PHP client.
* Created a dedicated index (`custom-output-index-001`) on the remote host.
* Verified I can connect to the AWS host using cURL and basic auth.
* Confirmed the logs are being written *locally* if I point to a local Elasticsearch instance (`localhost:9200`).

# The problem:

When I switch the Elasticsearch host in the Laravel config to the remote endpoint (on AWS), **no logs show up in the remote index**, and I get **no exceptions or errors** in the Laravel logs.

# What I suspect:

* The client version (v9.x) may not be compatible with the remote ElasticSearch instance. I’m considering downgrading to the v7.x client which uses `application/json` instead of `application/x-ndjson`.
* Content-Type mismatch? The remote service may reject the format used by the newer client.
* Maybe a network/firewall/SIGv4 auth issue?
* Or the index mapping/settings on AWS Elasticsearch need to be adjusted to accept those documents?

# What I’d like to know:

* Has anyone successfully configured Laravel to log to a remote Elasticsearch endpoint?
* Did you have to downgrade the client library or tweak headers?
* Any best practices or gotchas when working with Elasticserach + Laravel?

This is myy current logging config

use Elastic\Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;
use Elastic\Elasticsearch\Exception\AuthenticationException;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\ElasticsearchHandler;
use Monolog\Formatter\ElasticsearchFormatter;

class ElasticsearchLogger
{
/**
* @throws AuthenticationException
*/
public function __invoke(array $config): Logger
{
$client = ClientBuilder::create()
->setHosts([
[
'host' => MY_HOST,
'port' => ENV_PORT,
'scheme' => ENV_SCHEME,
'user' => '********', // ← Basic Auth username
'pass' => '*****', // ← Basic Auth password
]
])
->build();

$indexName = 'custom-output-index-001';

$handler = new ElasticsearchHandler($client, [
'index' => $indexName,
'type' => '_doc',
]);
$response = $client->info();
Log::debug("CLIENT",[$response]);

$formatter = new ElasticsearchFormatter($indexName, '_doc');
$handler->setFormatter($formatter);

return new Logger('elastic', [$handler]);
}
}

Thanks in advance!

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