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 ...

Windows Event Viewer is a way to see all the logged events. However, if you see missing events in the event log, you may miss some important data. Logs are useful when trying to figure out if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security event monitoring systems are often plagued by signal-to-noise problems. Here's how to ensure they produce meaningful alerts One of the most interesting facts in the field of computer security ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...