# How does Winlogbeat parsing happen?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [December 28, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727 "2020-12-28T11:23:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727/1 "2020-12-28T11:23:14Z")

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Hello there !

Probably dumb question, but :

I'm asking how Winlogbeat parsing happen as I didn't use any logstash processing (grok,kv...) and didn't explicitely specify any pipeline to use

How does it works ?

**My setup** : Winlogbeat -\> Kafka -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch

**My winlogbeat logstash conf** :

```
input {
  kafka {
    topics => ["winlogbeat"]
    codec => json
    bootstrap_servers => "kafka01:9092,kafka02:9092,kafka03:9092"
    consumer_threads => 2
    decorate_events => true
  }
}

filter
{
    mutate {
      add_field => {
          "[@metadata][index]" => "winlogbeat"
          }
    }
}

output {
    elasticsearch {
      hosts => ["https://elastic1:9200","https://elastic2:9200"]
      manage_template => false
      ilm_enabled => true
      index => "%{[@metadata][index]}"
      user => "elastic"
      password => "changeme"
    }
}

```

Thanks !

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**Author:** ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727/2 "2020-12-28T22:55:24Z")

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Anyone ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727/3 "2020-12-29T05:50:55Z")

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Some of the Beats do internal processing of the messages.

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**Author:** ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727/4 "2020-12-29T09:25:01Z")

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OK thanks

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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:** [January 26, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-winlogbeat-parsing-happen/259727/5 "2021-01-26T11:25:14Z")

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