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Search engines have evolved tremendously over the past few decades, to the point where they have developed specialized branches within their respective fields. The emergence of cloud search solutions brings the power of search engines into the scalable environment of enterprises and organizations. Elasticsearch is such a search engine. It is based on the Lucene library and provides distributed, multi-tenant, and powerful full-text search engine functions.

Winlogbeat Specifically developed for sending Windows event logs to Elasticsearch and Logstash engines, and can be deployed as a standard service. The main working principle behind the service relies on reading single or multiple event logs via an API and filtering identified events based on customizable user criteria.

Detected logs are then sent to the configured search engine in a structured, hierarchical manner with persistent disk reads so that the process can always be restarted. Multiple event data types are supported and can be captured from any system log. These include software, hardware, security, and system events.

Last but not least, users will be able to preview the generated event statistics in the accompanying visualization module, which provides a graphical representation of the processed data.