{"id":2782,"date":"2013-10-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/02\/powertip-discover-all-event-logs-on-a-server\/"},"modified":"2013-10-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-discover-all-event-logs-on-a-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-discover-all-event-logs-on-a-server\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Discover All Event Logs on a Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Discover all of the event logs on a server by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I discover the event logs that are available on my server?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;There two ways to do this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">If you want the classic-type event logs, use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-EventLog &ndash;List<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">If you want to see all of the event logs, including the new style logs that were introduced in Windows Server&nbsp;2008 and Windows Vista, use:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">Get-WinEvent -ListLog *<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;You need the wildcard character (*); otherwise, you will generate an error message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Discover all of the event logs on a server by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I discover the event logs that are available on my server? &nbsp;There two ways to do this. If you want the classic-type event logs, use: Get-EventLog &ndash;List If you want to see all of the event logs, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,356,189,45],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-event-logs","tag-powertip","tag-richard-siddaway","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Discover all of the event logs on a server by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I discover the event logs that are available on my server? &nbsp;There two ways to do this. If you want the classic-type event logs, use: Get-EventLog &ndash;List If you want to see all of the event logs, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}