# Winlogbeat: Output to Logstash or Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-output-to-logstash-or-elasticsearch/44330>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-output-to-logstash-or-elasticsearch/44330 "2016-03-14T13:05:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![thyfere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@thyfere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thyfere)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-output-to-logstash-or-elasticsearch/44330/1 "2016-03-14T13:05:12Z")

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Hi,

I deployed Winlogbeat on my Windows boxes, Windows security logs are shipping to Elasticsearch directly, I can see them in Kibana. Now, is there any benefit to ship logs to ES via logstash or I can do the same job by tweaking Winlogbeat's template?

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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 5, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-output-to-logstash-or-elasticsearch/44330/2 "2017-07-05T23:08:40Z")

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