Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

If you do not find any event log on the computer, restarting the Windows Event Log service might help. System File Checker or SFC is the built-in tool of Windows that can fix corrupt system files. It ...

The tail command makes it easy to view log entries as they are written in real-time. Jack Wallen shows you how to make use of this indispensable tool. One of the single most helpful tools in your ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

You can export the Event Viewer Logs into various formats. We have mentioned some of the most common ones below. Export Event Viewer Logs into .evtx, .XML, .csv and .txt files Export Event Viewer Logs ...