# Winlogbeat 8.6 process fields not populated

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-8-6-process-fields-not-populated/338753>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-8-6-process-fields-not-populated/338753 "2023-07-19T08:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![stanley783](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@stanley783](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stanley783)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-8-6-process-fields-not-populated/338753/1 "2023-07-19T08:40:36Z")

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Hi,

until now using winlogbeat 7.X, tried winlogbeat 8.6.1 but agent does not parse/populate process.XXX fields anymore, it only uses fields in winlog.event\_data.XXX instead. Is there any easy obvious solution, instead of parsing this via logstash, to have populated both, winlog.event\_data.Image and process.executable? (Maybe only process.XXX fields will be enough) Config is pretty basic, only processor is used to drop some events. Thanks.

```auto
winlogbeat.event_logs:
  - name: Application
    ignore_older: 72h

  - name: System

  - name: Security

  - name: Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

  - name: Windows PowerShell
    event_id: 400, 403, 600, 800

  - name: Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational
    event_id: 4103, 4104, 4105, 4106

  - name: ForwardedEvents
    tags: [forwarded]

```

PS: in winlogbeat 7. processors were used that probably did what i have in mind, in config referenced:

```auto
   - name: Security
    ignore_older: 72h
    processors:
      - script:
          lang: javascript
          id: security
          file: ${path.home}/module/security/config/winlogbeat-security.js

```

but in 8 they are replaced by:

` ${path.home}/module/security/ingest/winlogbeat.yml`

Much love,  
SS

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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:** [July 20, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-8-6-process-fields-not-populated/338753/2 "2023-07-20T01:37:08Z")

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You'll need to setup the provided ingest node pipelines in Elasticsearch. See [Modules | Winlogbeat Reference [8.8] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/current/winlogbeat-modules.html)

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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:** [August 17, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-8-6-process-fields-not-populated/338753/3 "2023-08-17T03:37:22Z")

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