Can Winlogbeat output to Kafka?

[ernestgwilsonii]

I am reviewing a solution where everything goes to Kafka first.
Then from Kafka to Logstash then to GrayLog then to Elasticsearch then viewable by Kibana.

Can Winlogbeat output to Kafka?

Thank you.
Ernie

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

The documentation suggests so: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/current/kafka-output.html

[ernestgwilsonii]

Thank you!