# Winlogbeat Sysmon Registry events missing event.category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-sysmon-registry-events-missing-event-category/251282>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** ecs-elastic-common-schema, winlogbeat\
**Created:** [October 7, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-sysmon-registry-events-missing-event-category/251282 "2020-10-07T14:08:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-sysmon-registry-events-missing-event-category/251282/1 "2020-10-07T14:08:24Z")

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Hello,

My Sysmon registry events (`Registry object added or deleted (rule: RegistryEvent)`) seem to be missing an `event.category` field. (7.8)

What `event.category` should be given to these Sysmon events?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/b/bb43c345532d2741f380687feba25533be26cd22.png)

Grtz

Willem

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**Author:** ![marc.guasch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marc.guasch/32/74642_2.png) [@marc.guasch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marc.guasch)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-sysmon-registry-events-missing-event-category/251282/2 "2020-10-08T13:14:35Z")

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> [@willemdh](#):
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> Registry object added or deleted

Hello @willemdh ! Indeed it seems we lack a category value for registry related events. I opened an issue [here](https://github.com/elastic/ecs/issues/1019) to keep track of how we can improve this.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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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:** [November 5, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-sysmon-registry-events-missing-event-category/251282/3 "2020-11-05T15:14:45Z")

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