Continued use of Windows will generate a large number of log files, but how can one easily monitor these files without having to go through a series of mouse clicks? Well, recently, we’ve been testing ...

I have Splunk setup with the universal forwarder installed on all of my Windows machines sending the event logs to Splunk. Collecting all of the event logs with Splunk is working great. Now I was ...

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 ...

The basic workflow behind System Monitor is that it stores information from Windows Event Collection (Event Viewer) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) agents like process IDs, GUIDs, ...

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

EventTracker, a handy tool that offers the ability to centralize Windows logs,correlate events to pinpoint an exact problem, and much more. While expensive monitoring products such as EventTracker ...

Discover how to use the Windows 11 Reliability Monitor Tool to diagnose system crashes, errors, and stability issues. Step-by ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...