- Winlogbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting Started With Winlogbeat
- Setting up and running Winlogbeat
- Upgrading Winlogbeat
- Configuring Winlogbeat
- Set up Winlogbeat
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and Enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Decode Base64 fields
- Decompress gzip fields
- Community ID Network Flow Hash
- Convert
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Extract array
- Keep fields from events
- Registered Domain
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Add Observer metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Script Processor
- Timestamp
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- HTTP Endpoint
- winlogbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitoring Winlogbeat
- Securing Winlogbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Get Help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Bogus computer_name fields are reported in some events
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Not sure how to read from .evtx files
- Contributing to Beats
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Logstash connection doesn’t work
editLogstash connection doesn’t work
editYou may have configured Logstash or Winlogbeat incorrectly. To resolve the issue:
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Make sure that Logstash is running and you can connect to it. First, try to ping the Logstash host to verify that you can reach it from the host running Winlogbeat. Then use either
ncortelnetto make sure that the port is available. For example:ping <hostname or IP> telnet <hostname or IP> 5044
- Verify that the config file for Winlogbeat specifies the correct port where Logstash is running.
- Make sure that the Elasticsearch output is commented out in the config file and the Logstash output is uncommented.
- Confirm that the most recent Beats input plugin for Logstash is installed and configured. Note that Beats will not connect to the Lumberjack input plugin. To learn how to install and update plugins, see Working with plugins.
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