Continued use of Windows will generate a large number of log files, but how can one easily monitor these files without having to go through a series of mouse clicks? Well, recently, we’ve been testing ...

I have Splunk setup with the universal forwarder installed on all of my Windows machines sending the event logs to Splunk. Collecting all of the event logs with Splunk is working great. Now I was ...

EventTracker, a handy tool that offers the ability to centralize Windows logs,correlate events to pinpoint an exact problem, and much more. While expensive monitoring products such as EventTracker ...

A forgotten Windows feature that explains performance drops clearly.

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

Microsoft offers numerous useful tools for end users that can be used to tweak, play, troubleshoot, diagnose, secure, or perform other tasks with the Windows operating system. Sysinternals System ...

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

Microsoft's Sysmon and Azure Sentinel are easy and inexpensive ways to log events on your network. Here's how to get started with them. Logging is the key to knowing how the attackers came in and how ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 12, and it comes with a useful feature that logs and captures any data added to the Windows Clipboard. This feature can help system administrators and incident responders ...