Category Archives: Custom Columns

Extra power of custom columns

Approximately 10 years ago, we introduced custom columns in Event Log Explorer. This feature allows users to extract event details from the event description or event XML. Custom columns have significantly enhanced our customers’ ability to get more information from events, and we have continuously improved it across different versions. Previously, Event Log Explorer treated custom column values as text, which sometimes was insufficient for… Read More »

How to track printer usage with event logs

At the time, the US companies spend a total of $120 billion on printed forms annually, and each employee uses about 10,000 sheets of paper according to CompTIA. That’s why printer usage monitoring is very important to cut costs for printer supplies and their utilization. Another reason to know who and how uses corporate printers is to manage your resources and plan upgrades or downgrades… Read More »

Once again about custom columns – extracting details from Application or System event logs

In my article “Exploring who logged on the system“, I described how to add to the event list custom columns that display data from the event description. Probably you might think that adding custom columns works for Security event logs only. Although we initially designed Custom columns feature exactly for Security logs (and referred them by name, e.g. Subject\Account name), we made it possible to use… Read More »