Configuring Winlogbeatedit

After following the configuration steps in the Getting Started, you might want to fine tune the behavior of Winlogbeat. This section describes some common use cases for changing configuration options.

To configure Winlogbeat, you edit the configuration file. You’ll find the configuration file, winlogbeat.yml, in the archive that you extracted. There’s also a full example configuration file at /etc/winlogbeat/winlogbeat.full.yml that shows all non-deprecated options.

The following topics describe how to configure Winlogbeat: