Recommend a Windows server log analyser

Is it always the same Event ID?

always first try something official from MS: Log Parser 2.2, a SQL-like query engine for collecting logs from varied sources.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/scriptcenter/dd919274.aspx

Benjamin

No, it is not always the same event, there are lots of different event IDs

Bing,

Thanks for that. It looks promising. I will look into it.

Bing,

Log Parser 2.2 seems to be a Command Line based tool. Is that correct? Any GUI that you know of?

Hi,

you may also try  Event Log Consolidator tool from SolarWinds - http://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/event-log-consolidator

It is an efficient tool (GUI) to help you organize event logs in SMBs.

Damjan, thanks for the suggestion. I tried it ... but cannot get it to look at Windows "Application Event" logs. It seems to only look at the "File Replication Service" log for some reason...

Bing, the Log Parser studio looks great ... but ... I need to know SQL query to use it! Which I don't ... Luckily there are a number of samples I can use. This allowed me to create a first meaningful analysis

Bing

Are you familiar with SQL & Log Parser or should I ask a new question?

I would like to modify this query to only use the last nn entries or the entries since xx (date & time)

SELECT SourceName, 
    BIT_AND(EventID, 0x3fffffff) as EventID, 
    EventTypeName, 
    COUNT(*) As Entries
    FROM APPLICATION
    GROUP BY SourceName, EventID, EventTypeName
ORDER BY Entries DESC

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TimeGenerated is a date & time field from the Event Log (in my case in the form of "d/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss PM"). Not sure how to restrict the count to TimeGeneated > now()-24 hours or something like that

Also is there a way to restrict the report to only items whose Count is > 100 ?

Thanks for that Bing