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Step 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editStep 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editWinlogbeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations,
and searches for visualizing Winlogbeat data in Kibana. Before you can use
the dashboards, you need to create the index pattern, winlogbeat-*, and
load the dashboards into Kibana. To do this, you can either run the setup
command (as described here) or
configure dashboard loading in the
winlogbeat.yml config file.
This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration. If you didn’t already configure a Kibana endpoint, see configured Winlogbeat
Make sure Kibana is running before you perform this step. If you are accessing a secured Kibana instance, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Winlogbeat.
To set up the Kibana dashboards for Winlogbeat, use the appropriate command for your system. The command shown here loads the dashboards from the Winlogbeat package. For more options, such as loading customized dashboards, see Importing Existing Beat Dashboards in the Beats Developer Guide.
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
From the PowerShell prompt, change to the directory where you installed Winlogbeat, and run:
PS > winlogbeat setup --dashboards