# How to collect chinese windows 2012 evenglog?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 4, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342 "2015-12-04T03:32:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![woodkan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/db5fbb/32.png) [@woodkan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woodkan)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342/1 "2015-12-04T03:32:29Z")

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I am using LS and ES 2.1 . I want to to use LS eventlog plugin to collect my windows server's eventlog. My Windows server was Windows 2012 R2 chinese. I configure eventlog as below:  
input {  
eventlog {  
type =\> 'wineventlog'  
#logfile =\> ["System","Application","Security"]  
logfile =\> ['Security']  
codec =\> { plain =\> { charset =\> "GB18030" }}  
}  
}

but the output messages is like " "message" =\> "\xD5\xCA\xBB\xA7\xB5\xC7\xC2\xBC\xCA\xA7\xB0\xDC\xA1\xA3\r\n\r\n\xCA\xB9\xD3\xC3\xD5\xD......"

I tried to change the charset to GBK or UTF-8, but it is the same.  
How can I collect chinese windows event log?

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**Author:** ![woodkan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/db5fbb/32.png) [@woodkan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woodkan)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342/2 "2015-12-12T05:53:38Z")

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Have anyone help me on it?

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**Author:** ![xiaozhuqq48](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/97f17d/32.png) [@xiaozhuqq48](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xiaozhuqq48)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342/3 "2016-05-02T04:58:42Z")

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What does "LS" mean? Why not use winlogbeat?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-chinese-windows-2012-evenglog/36342/4 "2017-07-06T04:59:44Z")

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