Filebeat Input Config Error

[whitecoffee (john candy)]

I am new to all of this so bear with me.

I have set up an instance on elastic cloud and am attempting to import logs from my windows VM machine.

I have the config file setup for the most part but cant find where to import logs from within my windows system.

filebeat.inputs:

Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so

you can use different inputs for various configurations.

Below are the input specific configurations.

• type: log

  Change to true to enable this input configuration.

  enabled: true

  Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.

  paths:
  #- /var/log/*.log

  • c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs*

Where are logs stored on Windows that i can point the file path above to grab from?

[kumarabhi (Abhishek)]

Configuring input :
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-filebeat-options.html

Please change the location based on your machine setup (you may want to put the paths in ' ' to avoid Windows // )

Filebeat directory layout
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/directory-layout.html