# Remote server windows event logs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220 "2015-06-09T13:31:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Shra\_vanthi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shra_vanthi)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220/1 "2015-06-09T13:31:02Z")
I was able to successfully setup ELK on a server and it is working great.
Now, I'd like to read windows event logs from a bunch of remote servers. However, I do not want to install anything on those servers in order to send event logs to my logstash server. Is there any way I can accomplish that ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220/2 "2015-06-09T22:01:42Z")
Maybe? [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx)
I don't know what format that is though, so you'd have to try it.
Most people use nxlog at the moment.
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### Author:  [@Shra\_vanthi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shra_vanthi)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220/3 "2015-06-11T19:28:08Z")
Thank you for your response Mark.
I am also looking into Couchbase as an alternative, because we already use that on our production servers. I will look into the MSDN link you provided.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-server-windows-event-logs/2220/4 "2017-07-06T05:37:38Z")