Windows event ID
- Description
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A unique identifier associated with each event in Windows Event Log. The event ID determines the reason for every event logged. Event IDs are unique per source but are not globally unique; therefore, different sources may use the same event ID to identify unrelated operations.
You can view the logs in Windows Event Log and their associated Event IDs in the Event Viewer MMC snap-in, which is included in Windows.
NXLog Agent’s Event Log for Windows input module supports collecting Windows events using the Windows Event Log API, meaning it does not need any intermediate software or writing logs to a file. In addition, it supports collecting Windows events based on event IDs using XPath queries, so you can choose which event IDs to collect from the relevant sources.
- Also known as
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event ID, eventID
- See also
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Security logging on Windows - beyond 4625
Top 5 Windows Security logs everyone should collect
Collecting logs from Windows Event Log