If you are looking for good free software to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these three – Event Log Manager, Event Log Explorer and Lepide Event Log ...

This guide will help you to change the default Event Log file location in Windows 11/10. You can change the log file’s location using the Local Group Policy Editor and the Registry Editor. Just make ...

Have you ever needed to look for a certain event with the Event Viewer logs? If you did, you probably went through the normal method – opening the Event Log viewer, and performing a filter on the ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

LogRhythm will feel more comfortable to users with some database experience, but there's no debating the product's powerful capabilities. Being an unashamed geek, I was pleased to have the option to ...

Does someone have a very, very simple sample of how to go about creating a new Event Log along with writing events to the new log? I can do it in VB.NET fairly easily, but don't know C++ well enough.

Collecting too much log data overwhelms systems and staff. Centralized event log management lets you filter for the most significant security data. More companies are using their security logs to ...

An excellent PowerShell script is easy to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. When developing scripts, it's important to not just consider "working" a symbol of success but also that you have ...

Has anyone implemented an event logging system? I'm working in a 2008 R2 functional level domain, with all DCs set up as source computers and a 2008 r2 collection server, and I'm having a great deal ...

I have heard from both commercial and government customers, “You cannot manage what you cannot see,” and this rings true. Visibility is the core requirement of situational awareness. Do you need a ...