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Event Log Explorer 5 beta 2

Recently we released a new beta of Event Log Explorer 5 and I will show you what features we added. One of the great new features is a Task. The task defines what events will be picked, which computers from and how they will be displayed. Example of a task: Display all warning, error and critical events from System and Application logs of VM2012 and… 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 »

Windows boot performance diagnostics. Part 2

If you read the previous part of this article, you already know what Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance log is for, why similar events have different event types and what information is “hidden” in the event details. Now it’s time to practice. First, we need to decide what we will try to optimize. Let’s display only startup, shutdown and standby/resume events. The event IDs are 100, 200 and 300… Read More »

Advanced filtering. How to filter events by event description

A key instrument for event logs analysis is the function of event filtering. All known event log analysis tools have filtering feature, and I suppose, it is the most demanded feature of these applications. Setting filter for the most of event fields is easy. As a rule, all the event log applications let you filter by timeframe, event level, source, event IDs, users or computers… Read More »