---
title: How to guides
description: Learn how to perform common Winlogbeat configuration tasks. Enrich events with geoIP information, Load the Elasticsearch index template, Change the index...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/howto-guides
products:
  - Beats
  - Winlogbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# How to guides
Learn how to perform common Winlogbeat configuration tasks.
- [*Enrich events with geoIP information*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/winlogbeat-geoip)
- [*Load the Elasticsearch index template*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/winlogbeat-template)
- [*Change the index name*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/change-index-name)
- [*Load Kibana dashboards*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/load-kibana-dashboards)
- [*Load ingest pipelines*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/load-ingest-pipelines)
- [*Use environment variables in the configuration*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/using-environ-vars)
- [*Parse data using an ingest pipeline*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/configuring-ingest-node)
- [*Avoid YAML formatting problems*](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/winlogbeat/yaml-tips)