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Forwardport: Update winlogbeat-options.asciidoc (cherrypicks #2919 into 5.1) #3231

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Expand Up @@ -163,6 +163,38 @@ winlogbeat.event_logs:
event_id: 4624, 4625, 4700-4800, -4735
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[WARNING]
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If you specify more that 22 event IDs to include or 22 event IDs to exclude,
Windows will prevent Winlogbeat from reading the event log because it limits the
number of conditions that can be used in an event log query. If this occurs a similar
warning as shown below will be logged by Winlogbeat, and it will continue
processing data from other event logs. For more information, see
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/970453.

`WARN EventLog[Application] Open() error. No events will be read from this
source. The specified query is invalid.`

If you have more than 22 event IDs, you can workaround this Windows limitation
by using a drop_event[drop-event] processor to do the filtering after
Winlogbeat has received the events from Windows. The filter shown below is
equivalent to `event_id: 903, 1024, 4624` but can be expanded beyond 22
event IDs.

[source,yaml]
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processors:
- drop_event.when.and:
- equals.log_name: Security
- not.or:
- equals.event_id: 903
- equals.event_id: 1024
- equals.event_id: 4624
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===== event_logs.level

A list of event levels to include. The value is a comma-separated list of
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