Applications and Services Logs

The Application and Services Logs category was introduced after Windows Server 2008. This stores the events related to applications and their components. Most of the events listed here are more suited for application developers doing debugging and application-level troubleshooting.

This category has four log types:

• Admin: Events listed in this log are understandable by end users and IT professionals. This information can be used for basic application troubleshooting. Most of these log entries will include instructions or links to knowledge base articles from the application vendor to find out more about the given issue or to fix it.
• Operational: Operational events include information about configuration or status changes of an application/service. These events are useful for application diagnosis.
• Analytic: This log is hidden and disabled by default. This is usually only enabled during the application or service diagnosis process...