Can't create winlogbeat-*

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Try it with the ?pretty which will make the output more readable. I also added the content-type header. You'll see the "acknowledge: true" output on success.

$ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_template/winlogbeat?pretty -d@winlogbeat.template.json 
{
  "acknowledged" : true
}

Do you mean it hangs and doesn't return?

You can check to see if the template is installed with

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:9200/_template/winlogbeat?pretty

That will return the full template.