Start process Winlogbeat

Hi,

I recently installed Winlogbeat 7.2.0 and Auditbeat 7.2.0.
The README.md file included with the application download contains the instruction below.
"
To get started with Winlogbeat, you need to set up Elasticsearch on
your localhost first. After that, start Winlogbeat with:

 ./winlogbeat -c winlogbeat.yml -e

"
When I run the command in PowerShell to start Winlogbeat, there is continuous output in the shell (example below).
Do I need to leave this running in order for Winlogbeat to report events to Elasticsearch?

2019-06-30T08:20:08.675+0200 INFO beater/eventlogger.go:76 EventLog[System] successfully published 20 events

Regards,
Mohammed

Hello @mually

You also can start it as a service as you can see in the following documentation link https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/current/winlogbeat-starting.html

Winlogbeat should be running in order to report logs to elasticsearch. If you stop the process in charge of the collection of the logs the log ingestion will stop :slight_smile:.

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

Hi Juan,

I assumed the running process will report logs to elasticsearch.
Thanks for confirming!

Regards,
Mohammed

This topic was automatically closed 21 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.