Analyze your event logs with Event Log Explorerâ„¢
Event Log Explorer is a free software for viewing, monitoring and analyzing events recorded in Security, System, Application and another logs of Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. It extends starndard Event Viewer monitoring functionality and brings new features.
Main features and benefits of Event Log Explorer:
- Multi-document user interface (MDI) to view several event logs at one time
- Favorites computers and their logs are grouped into a tree
- Viewing event logs and event logs files
- Archiving event logs
- Event descirptions are in the log window
- Event list can be sorted by any column and in any direction
- Advanced filtering by any criteria including event description text
- Quick Filter feature allows you to filter event log in a couple of mouse clicks
- Fast search by any criteria
- Sending event logs to printer
- Export log to different formats
Multi-document user interface (MDI) to view several event logs at one time
In compare with Windows Event Log Viewer, you may view several event logs at one time. MDI allows you to open as many event log window as you want.
Favorites computers and their logs are grouped into a tree
With Event Log Explorer you can view event logs on different computers. For your convinience you may add your computers to a tree. Then you can simply select the desired event log from the desired computer , and it will be opened immediately.
Viewing event logs and event logs files
With Event Log Explorer you may open event logs as event log files. To open an event log file, just select File / Open Log File.
Archiving event logs
Archiving event logs is very important task. Very large event logs affect system performance, but sometimes administrators used to analyze past events. The appropriate solution is to limit the size of event logs, and backup event logs on regular basis. Event Log Explorer allows you to save opened event log as an event log file. Just use File / Save Log As command.
Event descirptions are in the log window
Unlike standard Event Viewer, Event Log Explorer allows you to view the description of each event without any additional mouse click. All desciptions are displayed in the Event Description box of log window. You may close this box if you don’t need to read event desciptions.
Event list can be sorted by any column and in any direction
Event Log Explorer allows you to sort event list by any column – just click on the column header, and event list will be re-sorted immediately. If you click on the column twice – the event list will be resored in the backward direction.
Advanced filtering by any criteria including event description text
You can easily filter events in the list by any criteria. Just use Filter command and specify your filter condition. You can combine different conditions within one filter criteria. Every filter can be saved into file – this saves your time when you want to reapply the filter in future.
Quick Filter feature allows you to filter event log in a couple of mouse clicks
It is very easy to filter event log by a single column value. Simply click right mouse button on a cell that will be considered as a filter criteria and you willbe prompted to filter on this criteria. E.g. if you click in column “Type” on a cell “Information”, you can set a quick filter on Type=”Information” criteria.
Fast search by any criteria
With Event Log Explorer you can easily search for event that meets a certain criteria. Just use View / Find command to start search. To find a next event that meets this criteria, please use View / Find Next command.
Sending Event Log to printer
Unlike standard Windows Event Viewer, Event Log Explorer can print event logs. If you set a filter before printing, only filtered record will be sent to printer.
Export log to different formats
You may export your event logs to other formats. At the time, Event Log Explorer supports export to HTML and tab-separated text files.
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What’s new?
1.4 beta 2 (2006-08-30)
+ Added regular expressions search/filter by description.
* Highly improved performance of large logs loading.
- Filter by source might work incorrectly for log files. Fixed.
1.4 beta (2006-08-16)
+ Document-oriented concept. Workspace files to store program state.
+ Computers can grouped in the tree.
+ Property pages for computers and groups.
+ Wizard to search and bulk add computers to the tree.
+ Select font option added.
+ Time correction property added.
+ New filter/search criteria to perform more advanced filtering.
+ Support of Windows Vista logs added.
* Highly improved performance of date/time sort.
* Computers tree is now multi-selectable.
* Different user interface improvements.
- Popup menu appears again in the description box.
- Minor bugs fixed.
- Publisher – FSPro Labs
- File Size – 1150 Kb
- Version – 1.4 beta 2
- License – Freeware
