# Can't create winlogbeat-\*

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-winlogbeat/100113
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [September 11, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-winlogbeat/100113 "2017-09-11T18:15:52Z")
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### Author: ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-winlogbeat/100113/8 "2017-09-11T22:13:25Z")

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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.

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

```

> [@hispeed](#):
>
> But nothing happens...?

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.

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