Effortless Event Log Mining, Viewing
and Incident Discovery

Event logs on Windows ® servers and workstations pile up quickly. And, whether or not your network team is required to store, sort and report on that log data, you know that there is valuable information hiding in there somewhere.

Unfortunately, the event log viewer and other options included in your Windows operating system for viewing event logs are too cumbersome for routine log viewing. It requires endless scrolling, line by line scanning, cheat sheets to help translate the data… and the list goes on and on. And, if in an emergency which requires log data to be recalled, sorted and viewed quickly, this just isn’t an option.

Yet if you are managing a small to mid-size business or even an enterprise network, most options on the market are probably overkill for your environment or not right for your budget. Big enterprise tools are costly to acquire and run and come with a lot more baggage. And point tools including your plain old Windows event viewer, tie you down to manual tasks and provide you no way to deploy a complete log management strategy.

And because event log files grow so rapidly and to such a large size, the old method of reviewing log files in a linear, chronological form is practically obsolete for networks of any size. You are not alone if you feel like you are stuck between a rock and hard place. [ read more ]