Sometimes you may need to display who logons your server except for the authenticated domain users. It could be authenticated users from the trusted domain, local users, system services, etc. First, we define that we will filter the Security log by Event Id = 4624 (as we did before). The event description of this event looks like An account was successfully logged on. Subject: … Read More »
Filtering events by description is one of the most asked questions to us. Some time ago I wrote an article devoted to this problem. Recently we had to check all events in the security log linked with a certain file (let’s say, it’s winword.exe, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE). The easiest solution was to use Filter command and type file name in the “Text in description”… Read More »
You probably read in the documentation that Event Log Explorer provides 5 ways to filter events. In this article, I will try to explain when you should use one or the other way of filtering. First, we can arrange filters on applying time: Pre-load filter. This filter applies to the event log before loading. Only the required events will be loaded. On-load filter. This filter… Read More »
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 »