Compare editions of Event Log Explorer

Event Log Explorer has three editions: Standard, Forensic and Enterprise.

The standard edition is intended for IT managers, QA and tech support personal. It includes Event Log Explorer (viewer) and some command-line tools for event log backup.

The forensic edition is intended for forensic examiners. It extends Event Log Explorer (viewer) by specific forensic features.

The enterprise edition is intended for system and security administrators and IT auditors. This edition extends the standard one by Elodea event collector which automatically collects events across the network and store them into a database with optional notifications on specific events. It also includes event log export command line tools to export events into a database, Excel, PDF, ODS, CSV, and HTML formats.

You can receive the following benefits from using Event Log Explorer Forensic Edition:

Easy access to event logs on a disk image
You can scan any disk image for events or mount this image as a drive and work with this drive as you work with a "live" computer.

Working with damaged files
Event Log Explorer can read available events from damaged event log files.

Taking and loading event log snapshots
Event Log Explorer can save a log view for the further analysis. You can work with a snapshot exactly like you work with an event log file, but snapshots may store extended information.

Scripting
Automate your work or set your own specific filter conditions using scripts.

You can receive the following benefits from using Event Log Explorer Enterprise Edition:

Troubleshooting
If you server becomes unavailable, you can check the last error and warning events on the server to find the reason of the problem.

Forensic analysis
You can audit security logs across the corporate network to detect unauthorized access, computer misuse or other user activities.

Network maintenance
Having events from different sources in one consolidated event database lets you analyze them in one place and find potential problems before they appear.

Fast reaction
You can choose to get notified when important events occur in the event logs. E.g., you can get email if disk space is low on your domain controller. Such a notification lets you fix the issue quickly and avoid network outrage.

Regulatory compliance
It uses the industrial standard database (MS SQL Server) to store events. All events are stored in a simple and user-friendly format. So, you can use any report generator to build compliance reports to meet the regulatory requirements.

Scripting
Automate your work or set your own specific filter conditions using scripts.

Event Log Explorer editions comparison chart

Component	Standard Edition	Forensic Edition	Enterprise Edition
Event Log Explorer Viewer	✔	✔	✔
Working with disk images	-	✔	-
Reading damaged log files	-	✔	-
Saving and loading snapshots	-	✔	-
Scripting	-	✔	✔
Elodea Event Collector	-	-	✔
Event Log Backup	✔	✔	✔
Event Log Database Exporter	-	-	✔
Event Log Exporter	-	✔	✔