Winlogbeat

Winlogbeat is a data shipper that ships the Windows event logs to Logstash or the Elasticsearch cluster. It keeps a watch and reads from different Windows event logs and sends them to Logstash or Elasticsearch in a timely manner. Winlogbeat can send different types of events:

  • Hardware Events
  • Security Events
  • System Events
  • Application Events

Winlogbeat sends structured data to Logstash or Elasticsearch after reading raw event data to make it easy for filtering and aggregating the data.