# Windows event collection using Logstah Forwarder

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-event-collection-using-logstah-forwarder/683>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-event-collection-using-logstah-forwarder/683 "2015-05-14T11:29:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![venkaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/919ad9/32.png) [@venkaty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkaty)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-event-collection-using-logstah-forwarder/683/1 "2015-05-14T11:29:42Z")

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I would like to collect multiple Windows host events using WMI. Can I deploy Logstash-forwarder in each of the Windows machine to collect events (either using Windows Eventlog/WMI input plugins) and forward those collected events to Central Logstash Server (version 1.5 RC2) ?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-event-collection-using-logstah-forwarder/683/2 "2015-05-14T14:44:20Z")

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logstash-forwarder only reads plain text files. It's not capable of collecting logs via WMI. You'll probably have more luck with Logstash or [NXLog](http://nxlog-ce.sourceforge.net/).

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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 6, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-event-collection-using-logstah-forwarder/683/3 "2017-07-06T05:39:51Z")

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