In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are the three commands to extract Even logs using PowerShell. Using Get-WinEvent Using Get-EventLog Using wevtutil for Raw EVTX Logs You can run these commands on PowerShell or Windows Terminal.

SIEM and SOAR allow enterprises to collect and correlate log event data but may not be the ideal choice for every organization. Microsoft’s Windows Event Forwarding aggregates system event logs from ...

The log-on/log-off category of the Windows security log gives you the ability to monitor all attempts to access the local computer. In this article I’ll examine each log-on type in greater detail and ...

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 ...