- Winlogbeat Reference: other versions:
- Winlogbeat Overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade
- Configure
- Winlogbeat
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- append
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Instrumentation
- winlogbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get Help
- Debug
- Understand logged metrics
- Common problems
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Bogus computer_name fields are reported in some events
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Dashboard could not locate the index-pattern
- High RSS memory usage due to MADV settings
- Not sure how to read from .evtx files
- Contribute to Beats
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Debug
editDebug
editBy default, Winlogbeat sends all its output to syslog. When you run Winlogbeat in
the foreground, you can use the -e
command line flag to redirect the output to
standard error instead. For example:
winlogbeat -e
The default configuration file is winlogbeat.yml (the location of the file varies by
platform). You can use a different configuration file by specifying the -c
flag. For example:
winlogbeat -e -c mywinlogbeatconfig.yml
You can increase the verbosity of debug messages by enabling one or more debug
selectors. For example, to view publisher-related messages, start Winlogbeat
with the publisher
selector:
winlogbeat -e -d "publisher"
If you want all the debugging output (fair warning, it’s quite a lot), you can
use *
, like this:
winlogbeat -e -d "*"
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