# Tool to generate Windows events

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tool-to-generate-windows-events/157533>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tool-to-generate-windows-events/157533 "2018-11-20T12:00:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Suny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suny/32/22082_2.png) [@Suny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suny)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tool-to-generate-windows-events/157533/1 "2018-11-20T12:00:30Z")

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We would like to generate different kinds of events, of a broad range of MS products and of Windows itself, ideally faking different hostnames as sender. Does anyone know of a tool to achieve this?

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tool-to-generate-windows-events/157533/2 "2018-11-25T22:35:35Z")

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This is a tool that reads from a log file and creates events.

> **[andrewkroh/goeventgen](https://github.com/andrewkroh/goeventgen)**
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> Windows Event Generator written in Go. Contribute to andrewkroh/goeventgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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:** [December 23, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tool-to-generate-windows-events/157533/3 "2018-12-23T22:35:35Z")

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