# Trying to add windows winlogbeat and the standard dashboards, but dashboards are empty

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106 "2022-06-01T09:49:06Z")
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### Author: ![fribse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@fribse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fribse)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106/1 "2022-06-01T09:49:06Z")

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Hi All  
After rebuilding the entire elastic stack to 7.16.3 currently, I wanted to expand the elastic to also monitor our windows servers.

I have a winlogbeat config that looks like this:

```auto
winlogbeat.event_logs:
  - name: Security
    fields:
      logtype: winlogbeat
  - name: Application
    fields:
      logtype: winlogbeat
  - name: System
    fields:
      logtype: winlogbeat

setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 2

output.logstash:
  hosts: ["logstash.onead.dk:5000"]

```

My logstash pipeline config looks like this:

```auto
input {
        beats {
                port => 5000
                ecs_compatibility => disabled
        }
        syslog {
        }
}

#############################################
# Winlogbeat does not require processing #
#############################################
...
output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => "https://elasticsearch:9200"
      index => "%{[fields][logtype]}-%{[@metadata][version]}-%{+YYYY.MM}"
      document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
      cacert => "/usr/share/logstash/config/certs/ca/ca.crt"
      user => XXX
      password => XXX
  }
}

```

I can see data flowing nicely into elastic

 ![billede](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/8/88e382f389d0358a3dc27f31d0bf09de7a3e18f4.png)

but when I open the dashboards that are installed as per default, most of them are empty.  
What did I do wrong?

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### Author: ![sudhagar\_ramesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sudhagar_ramesh/32/105673_2.png) [@sudhagar\_ramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudhagar_ramesh)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106/2 "2022-06-01T10:49:29Z")

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Hello @fribse

Please execute this below command to load the default dashboards

`./winlogbeat setup --dashboards`

For more information, refer this below link

> **[Load Kibana dashboards | Winlogbeat Reference \[8.2\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html)**

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### Author: ![sudhagar\_ramesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sudhagar_ramesh/32/105673_2.png) [@sudhagar\_ramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudhagar_ramesh)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106/3 "2022-06-02T11:38:37Z")

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Hello @fribse

is the default dashboards loaded now with the beats data using the above command

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### Author: ![sudhagar\_ramesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sudhagar_ramesh/32/105673_2.png) [@sudhagar\_ramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sudhagar_ramesh)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106/4 "2022-06-13T08:23:20Z")

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Hello @fribse

Able to load the standard dashboards with your inputs??

Keep Posted !!! Thanks !!!

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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 11, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-add-windows-winlogbeat-and-the-standard-dashboards-but-dashboards-are-empty/306106/5 "2022-07-11T08:24:05Z")

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