Recently we released a new product that collects events from different sources, sends them into a database and alerts on important events. Elodea (acronym for Event Log Dispatcher and Event Alerter). The program and its documentation are available on this page: https://eventlogxp.com/elodea.html In this article I will demonstrate how to setup and configure Elodea on your PC. To simplify the demonstration process, we will work… Read More »
There are different circumstances that lead to an event log analysis. One of the most common is the reactive Windows error log search, “reactive” because it is done in reaction to a problem, “error log” because what we are looking for error events that will help us identify the origin of the problem. When searching the error log entries (error events in Application and System logs), it… Read More »
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 »