[Winlogbeat] Retry ReportEvent in tests (#24645) (#24647)

Under Windows 7 and Windows 10, writes to a newly created event log fail occasionally. It seems that there is a delay between when an event log is created and publishing events to it is allowed.

(cherry picked from commit 41ae9ab)

winlogbeat/tests/system/winlogbeat.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import os
 import platform
 import sys
+import time
 import yaml
 
 if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
@@ -75,8 +76,17 @@ def write_event_log(self, message, eventID=10, sid=None,
         if level is None:
             level = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE
 
-        win32evtlogutil.ReportEvent(source, eventID,
-                                    eventType=level, strings=[message], sid=sid)
+        # Retry on exception for up to 10 sec.
+        t = time.monotonic()
+        while True:
+            try:
+                win32evtlogutil.ReportEvent(source, eventID,
+                                            eventType=level, strings=[message], sid=sid)
+                break
+            except:
+                if time.monotonic() - t < 10:
+                    continue
+                raise
 
     def get_sid(self):
         if self.sid is None: