Event Log Monitoring for Windows

Consolidate, analyze, and alert on critical Windows event log data

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Real-Time Event Monitoring

Log Viewer Tool

Correlate Event Timelines

Monitor near real-time critical Windows event log data

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Your infrastructure continuously generates log data to help provide performance insight and monitoring logs in real time can give you the immediate insight you need. Whether it’s syslog, SNMP traps, or Windows system event logs, these critical pieces of insight can help with troubleshooting—but without an efficient and easy way to consume this data, you may not be fully leveraging these insights.

SolarWinds^® Log Analyzer is designed to reduce the log “noise” and let you focus on the log data that matters most. Use SolarWinds Log Analyzer to monitor, collect, consolidate, and analyze Windows event log information all within a single tool.

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Tag and filter data with the Windows event log viewer tool

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To save time and eliminate hours of manual work, admins need Windows event log reader tools with the capability to search Windows events.

Log Analyzer is designed to go above and beyond the functionalities of a traditional log viewer by letting you search logs and use out-of-the-box tags and filters to more easily refine your monitored log data and pinpoint issues. Using Log Analyzer, you can quickly find Windows event log entries of interest and get the insights you need.

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Correlate Windows event timelines with other key metrics

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When the blue screen of death stares back at you from your computer, the first question on your mind is, “What happened?”

This question becomes much easier to answer with Log Analyzer’s integration with the Orion^® Platform and SolarWinds PerfStack^™ dashboard. Using a common timeline, users can correlate network and systems availability and performance metrics from other SolarWinds products alongside Windows server event log data from Log Analyzer.

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Get More on Windows Event Log

Do you find yourself asking…

What is a Windows event log?
How to Collect and Monitor Windows Event Logs
Why is Windows event log monitoring important?
What do Windows event log monitoring tools do?
How does Windows event log monitoring work in the Log Analyzer?

A Windows event log is a record of transactions on a Microsoft system. All the devices and services on a network generate logs, which include reports of errors and issues as well as many records of successful transactions and interactions. Windows systems have three types of event logs: system, application, and security logs, each of which is meant to report on events involving that area of the system. The logs typically include information like the data and time generated, the associated user or computer, the event ID, the source, and event type.

To perform Windows event log monitoring, admins may choose to take manual steps, although an automated Windows event log analyzer can make the process more efficient.

A few basic steps are required to effectively collect and monitor Windows event logs for troubleshooting insights:

Aggregate and centralize logs: The only way to monitor the full scope of your Windows event logs is either by going through the tens of thousands of logs produced each day manually or by using a Windows event log collector tool. Typically, the easiest way to aggregate logs is to manage your various devices and services through an automated tool and view your system logs through a single interface.
Scan logs: The process of monitoring Windows event logs also involves going through the collected logs to find suspicious behavior, like patterns of increased log activity indicative of an attack or logs showing a problem within the system, often indicated by an error log. Once you find a suspicious log, you can use the record to help determine the cause of whatever problem your system is facing and resolve it.While scanning Windows event logs can be incredibly useful, it can also be quite overwhelming. This is because the systems on your network produce tens of thousands of logs every day, which can make manually monitoring logs extremely difficult. Additionally, the most critical logs for maintaining the security and functionality of your network may not always be flagged as such. For example, it’s possible that not all the logs related to the security of your system are stored as “security” logs, making it more difficult to promptly notice a threat. Security threats may not even appear within specific error logs but show up as unusual patterns of log entries, such as an increased volume of a certain type of log in a short amount of time to indicate an attack on the system. These patterns can be very difficult to spot when manually sorting through logs.
Gain log insights: The more devices and systems you have on your network, the more time-consuming the task of manually sorting through logs for insights becomes. You may even miss important warning signs that could prevent your network and business from being seriously threatened.

To effectively and efficiently monitor Windows event log data and make sure you’re not missing critical information, using a tool to automatically collect and monitor your logs and provide alerts whenever a threat is detected can enable you to act quickly to find and address the danger before your network is compromised. Automated event log tools can also provide additional capabilities, like event log tagging, search features, and alerting.

A Windows event log is a record of transactions on a Microsoft system. All the devices and services on a network generate logs, which include reports of errors and issues as well as many records of successful transactions and interactions. Windows systems have three types of event logs: system, application, and security logs, each of which is meant to report on events involving that area of the system. The logs typically include information like the data and time generated, the associated user or computer, the event ID, the source, and event type.
To perform Windows event log monitoring, admins may choose to take manual steps, although an automated Windows event log analyzer can make the process more efficient.
A few basic steps are required to effectively collect and monitor Windows event logs for troubleshooting insights:
Aggregate and centralize logs: The only way to monitor the full scope of your Windows event logs is either by going through the tens of thousands of logs produced each day manually or by using a Windows event log collector tool. Typically, the easiest way to aggregate logs is to manage your various devices and services through an automated tool and view your system logs through a single interface.
Scan logs: The process of monitoring Windows event logs also involves going through the collected logs to find suspicious behavior, like patterns of increased log activity indicative of an attack or logs showing a problem within the system, often indicated by an error log. Once you find a suspicious log, you can use the record to help determine the cause of whatever problem your system is facing and resolve it.While scanning Windows event logs can be incredibly useful, it can also be quite overwhelming. This is because the systems on your network produce tens of thousands of logs every day, which can make manually monitoring logs extremely difficult. Additionally, the most critical logs for maintaining the security and functionality of your network may not always be flagged as such. For example, it’s possible that not all the logs related to the security of your system are stored as “security” logs, making it more difficult to promptly notice a threat. Security threats may not even appear within specific error logs but show up as unusual patterns of log entries, such as an increased volume of a certain type of log in a short amount of time to indicate an attack on the system. These patterns can be very difficult to spot when manually sorting through logs.
Gain log insights: The more devices and systems you have on your network, the more time-consuming the task of manually sorting through logs for insights becomes. You may even miss important warning signs that could prevent your network and business from being seriously threatened.
To effectively and efficiently monitor Windows event log data and make sure you’re not missing critical information, using a tool to automatically collect and monitor your logs and provide alerts whenever a threat is detected can enable you to act quickly to find and address the danger before your network is compromised. Automated event log tools can also provide additional capabilities, like event log tagging, search features, and alerting.