# Sending Event Logs and Log Files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-event-logs-and-log-files/142860>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [August 3, 2018, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-event-logs-and-log-files/142860 "2018-08-03T07:40:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Badb0y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Badb0y](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badb0y)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-event-logs-and-log-files/142860/9 "2018-08-14T06:47:19Z")

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I haven't tried this yet, but how about this one:

> [@Using Winlogbeat for custom logfiles?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-winlogbeat-for-custom-logfiles/100482/6):
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> Yeah Winlogbeat is dedicated to Windows Event logs. For your Application logs you can use Filebeat [https://www.elastic.co/products/beats](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats) to send your application log data to Elastic. Alternatively to Filebeat you can use the "File" input plugin (included by default) in Logstash [https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash](https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash). Logstash is the heavy duty option in that it has plenty of options to perform a lot transformation and filtering (can use grok) on the data before it sends it on to Elastic. So d…

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