I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...

I have heard from both commercial and government customers, “You cannot manage what you cannot see,” and this rings true. Visibility is the core requirement of situational awareness. Do you need a ...

Log and event management is now a requirement for organizations that need to monitor security and IT policy enforcement, document compliance, and achieve IT operations excellence without increasing ...

Does someone have a very, very simple sample of how to go about creating a new Event Log along with writing events to the new log? I can do it in VB.NET fairly easily, but don't know C++ well enough.

Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them. Have you taken a look in the Event Viewer lately? Are you afraid to? Does it just ...

LogRhythm will feel more comfortable to users with some database experience, but there's no debating the product's powerful capabilities. Being an unashamed geek, I was pleased to have the option to ...

Digitalization has enabled businesses to record their operations in event logs where each activity in a business process is recorded as data with certain attributes such as a timestamp, event name etc ...

In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...

Another day another malware threat. Yes, yet another new way of delivering malware has shown up recently. That new way does not directly involve files but Windows Event Logs. According to security ...