# Error sending logs - Failed to publish events caused by: EOF

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [February 15, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178 "2017-02-15T10:56:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![reeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@reeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/reeno)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178/1 "2017-02-15T10:56:54Z")

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Hi,

Seems a few people have this issue and different things resolve for different users - I have read a lot of topics and tried many things but I am still unable to get my windows eventlogs to elsaticsearh. Note I am very new to this so hopefully it is just something simple I have done wrong.

Note I have Filebeat running on two Ubuntu servers and the data from them is visible in Kibana.

The winlogbeat file in C:\ProgramData\winlogbeat\Logs shows:

```
2017-02-15T21:34:54+11:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: libbeat.logstash.publish.read_errors=1 libbeat.logstash.published_but_not_acked_events=1 libbeat.logstash.call_count.PublishEvents=1 libbeat.logstash.publish.write_bytes=645
2017-02-15T21:35:24+11:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG connect
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG Try to publish 1 events to logstash with window size 1
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG handle error: EOF
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG closing
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG 0 events out of 1 events sent to logstash. Continue sending
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG close connection
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 ERR Failed to publish events caused by: EOF
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 INFO Error publishing events (retrying): EOF
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG close connection
2017-02-15T21:35:30+11:00 DBG send fail

```

My Winlogbeat.yml file is:

```
winlogbeat.event_logs:
   - name: Security
     ignore_older: 2h
     event_id: 4727, 4731, 4754, 4726

output.logstash:
  hosts: ["192.168.0.222:5044"]
  bulk_max_size: 1024
  index: winlogbeat

  sls:
    certificate_authorities: ["C:/ProgramData/winlogbeat/logstash-forwarder.crt"]

logging.to_files: true
logging.files:
  path: C:/ProgramData/winlogbeat/Logs
logging.level: debug

```

I am a bit confused on what config file I should have running on the logstash server I do have /etc/logstash/conf.d/02-beats-input.conf which contains:

```
input {
  beats {
    port => 5044
    ssl => true
    ssl_certificate => "/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"
    ssl_key => "/etc/pki/tls/private/logstash-forwarder.key"
  }
}

output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => "localhost:9200"
    manage_template => false
    index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
  }
}

```

Any help to get my windows eventlogs showing in kibana will be much appreciated and let me know if I need to provide any more info/logs.

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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:** [February 15, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178/2 "2017-02-15T20:54:16Z")

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> [@reeno](#):
>
> ```auto
> sls:
> certificate_authorities:
> 
> ```

Try it with `ssl` instead of `sls`.

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**Author:** ![reeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@reeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/reeno)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178/3 "2017-02-16T08:47:38Z")

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Hi Andrew,

Thank you that fixed my issue - I had changed to tls as one post has said and then when I changed back to ssl I obviously stuffed up with my typing.

Event logs are rolling in now - cheers for your speedy reply.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-sending-logs-failed-to-publish-events-caused-by-eof/75178/4 "2017-03-16T08:47:51Z")

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