Managing Windows Server event logs

We have covered a wide range of topics so far. Now, it’s finally time to cover Windows Server event logs as the topic fits so perfectly with troubleshooting and monitoring. Event logs have proven to give insights into events for Windows OSs in general, including information and warning and error messages covering not only the Windows OS components but any installed applications on the systems.

Event Viewer is typically used to review and filter for events across multiple event logs (including both Windows logs and Application and Services logs) and allows us to customize views to narrow the scope of how we can review and investigate logs during troubleshooting.

Within Event Viewer, scheduled and automated tasks can be created based on individual entries within event logs (using Attach Task To This Event…) or attached to custom views (using Attach Task To This Custom View…) under the Actions > Administrative Events menu...