Logging system messages and events can provide valuable insights into troubleshooting issues as well as security. In our review...
Encrypt event logs and files with PowerShell and group policies
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A new feature of Windows 10 and Server 2016 is Protected Event Logging, which encrypts sensitive data in the...
Complete network visibility with SolarWinds Log and Network Performance Pack
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SolarWinds combines a powerful log analyzer with high-level network performance views into an incredibly useful pack. Quickly solving complex...
EventSentry 4.0: SIEM with Active Directory monitoring
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Back in mid-2018, we looked at EventSentry 3.5. In this article, we're going to cover all the new goodies...
Forward Windows events to a Syslog server with free SolarWinds Event Log Forwarder for Windows
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Despite Syslog’s popularity, Windows OS does not natively support sending event log data to a Syslog server. This is...
Log Analytics, now part of Azure Monitor, is a log collection, search, and reporting service hosted in Microsoft Azure....
Monitoring virtual machines with Log Analytics (OMS) using PowerShell
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As Azure services are growing day by day, it is becoming more important to monitor them in a fully...
If you need an easy-to-set-up and cost-effective security monitoring solution for your network, EventSentry 3.5 should definitely be on...
In my last post, I showed you how to display and find specific events with the Get-WinEvent cmdlet. Whereas...
Event Forwarding lets you collect all kinds of information from the Windows event log and store it in a...
If you have to find information in unstructured log files, PowerShell offers a variety of cmdlets that can help...
Search the event log with the Get-WinEvent PowerShell cmdlet
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Searching in the event log is one of the most common tasks of a system administrator. With the help...
Audit Windows logon and logoff events with PowerShell and SQL Server
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In this guide, I'll go through the steps to audit user logon and logoff events using Microsoft SQL Server...
In this article, I will list several options for accessing and viewing ESXi log files in environments of different...
Microsoft released the new Sysinternals tools, Sysmon, which allows you to monitor Windows process creations, file creation time changes,...
Splunk is a general-purpose analytics tool. In this post, you’ll learn how to leverage Splunk for analyzing system logs.
In the previous article I demonstrated some techniques using Get-WMIObject to backup classic event logs. If you have PowerShell...
Last time we looked at using PowerShell to query the state of classic Event Log entries, as well as...
Event logs are terrific management tools, but they themselves require a little attention every now and then. You may...
The free event log monitoring tool EventSentry Light allows you to monitor event logs, log files, remote hosts, services...
