# Winlogbeat kafka-output seems to be broken
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-kafka-output-seems-to-be-broken/79008
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-kafka-output-seems-to-be-broken/79008 "2017-03-17T11:17:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Mugen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mugen)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-kafka-output-seems-to-be-broken/79008/1 "2017-03-17T11:17:53Z")
I installed winlogbeat 5.2.2 on a windows Server 2012R2 machine.
winlogbeat sends to the kafka-node, the node creates a topic, but the topic remains empty.
Packages are ariving. I checked via tcpdump . Has someone managed to get the kafka-output plugin for Winlogbeat to work ?
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-kafka-output-seems-to-be-broken/79008/2 "2017-03-17T16:12:50Z")
All Beats share the same Kafka output code so this shouldn't be a Winlogbeat specific issue. Others are using this output with success.
What do the logs show on the Winlogbeat side? What configuration are you using?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-kafka-output-seems-to-be-broken/79008/3 "2017-04-14T16:12:52Z")
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