{"id":2974,"date":"2013-08-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/25\/powertip-find-powershell-events-and-levels\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-events-and-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-events-and-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Events and Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to find PowerShell related events and levels.<\/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 find events that are related to Windows PowerShell in the event and diagnostic logs, and see the level for those events?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-WinEvent<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and a wildcard character for&nbsp;<strong>LogName<\/strong>, select the&nbsp;<strong>logname<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>level<\/strong>&nbsp;properties, and make it easy by filtering only&nbsp;<strong>Unique<\/strong>&nbsp;entries:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Get-WinEvent -LogName *powershell* | select logname, level -Unique<\/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: Use Windows PowerShell to find PowerShell related events and levels. &nbsp;How can I find events that are related to Windows PowerShell in the event and diagnostic logs, and see the level for those events? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WinEvent&nbsp;cmdlet and a wildcard character for&nbsp;LogName, select the&nbsp;logname&nbsp;and&nbsp;level&nbsp;properties, and make it easy by filtering only&nbsp;Unique&nbsp;entries: Get-WinEvent -LogName *powershell* | [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find PowerShell related events and levels. &nbsp;How can I find events that are related to Windows PowerShell in the event and diagnostic logs, and see the level for those events? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-WinEvent&nbsp;cmdlet and a wildcard character for&nbsp;LogName, select the&nbsp;logname&nbsp;and&nbsp;level&nbsp;properties, and make it easy by filtering only&nbsp;Unique&nbsp;entries: Get-WinEvent -LogName *powershell* | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","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=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/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=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}