The Event Viewer is an intuitive tool which lets you find all the required info, provided you know what to look for. But first, a few words about the logs in general.įirst, there are two ways to access the events logged in Windows – through the Event Viewer and using the Get-EventLog / Get-WinEvent cmdlets.

In this article, I will show you how to use PowerShell and Get-EventLog to perform some Event Log magic. But it is not the only way you can use logged events. Windows Event logs is one of the first tools an admin uses to analyze problems and to see where does an issue come from.