# Logstash parse windows event nxlog

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parse-windows-event-nxlog/303138>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parse-windows-event-nxlog/303138 "2022-04-25T09:29:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parse-windows-event-nxlog/303138/4 "2022-04-26T23:13:50Z")

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If you know what the field names are going to be then you could do something like [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-mcafee-audit-log-file-with-logstash/302946/2). If the field names are unknown I do not think there is an unambiguous way to parse the message.

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