Winlogbeat is a data shipper that ships the Windows event logs to Logstash or the Elasticsearch cluster. It keeps a watch and reads from different Windows event logs and sends them to Logstash or Elasticsearch in a timely manner. Winlogbeat can send different types of events:
Hardware Events
Security Events
System Events
Application Events
Winlogbeat sends structured data to Logstash or Elasticsearch after reading raw event data to make it easy for filtering and aggregating the data.