# Start process Winlogbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [June 30, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177 "2019-06-30T06:22:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mually](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mually](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mually)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177/1 "2019-06-30T06:22:50Z")

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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.  
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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

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**Author:** ![Juanma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanma/32/49076_2.png) [@Juanma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177/2 "2019-06-30T13:36:56Z")

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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](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 🙂.

I hope this helps 🙂

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**Author:** ![mually](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mually](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mually)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177/3 "2019-07-01T07:25:34Z")

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Hi Juan,

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

Regards,  
Mohammed

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-process-winlogbeat/188177/4 "2019-07-22T07:25:34Z")

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