# Parsing non-live windows event logs into winlogbeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-non-live-windows-event-logs-into-winlogbeat/192810
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-non-live-windows-event-logs-into-winlogbeat/192810 "2019-07-30T03:03:23Z")
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### Author:  [@gracia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gracia)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-non-live-windows-event-logs-into-winlogbeat/192810/1 "2019-07-30T03:03:23Z")
I have old windows event logs in the computer where I installed winlogbeat. How do I get winlogbeat to parse them instead of live windows event logs?
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-non-live-windows-event-logs-into-winlogbeat/192810/2 "2019-07-30T03:19:42Z")
You can set the `name` parameter to the absolute path of an .evtx file and it will read that in. You can use this to load in logs from a file that is "non-live". See the example in [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/7.2/faq.html#reading-from-evtx](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/7.2/faq.html#reading-from-evtx).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-non-live-windows-event-logs-into-winlogbeat/192810/3 "2019-08-27T03:19:51Z")
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