{"id":4103,"date":"2013-02-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/26\/powertip-find-the-number-of-entries-in-event-logs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-the-number-of-entries-in-event-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-the-number-of-entries-in-event-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find the Number of Entries in Event Logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PowerTip: Find the Number of Entries in Event Logs<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong> &nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the number of entries in all event logs and ETL logs?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<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 you use Windows PowerShell to show how many entries exist in all traditional event logs as well as ETL logs?<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><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 <strong>Get-WinEvent<\/strong> cmdlet and pass a wild card to the <strong>&ndash;ListLog<\/strong> parameter. Sort the recordcount in a descending manner, and select both the recordcount and logname. To tighten up the output, pipe the results to the <strong>Format-Table<\/strong> cmdlet and use <strong>&ndash;autosize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Get-WinEvent -ListLog * -ea 0 | sort recordcount -Descending |<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">select recordcount, logname | Format-Table -auto<\/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>PowerTip: Find the Number of Entries in Event Logs Summary: &nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the number of entries in all event logs and ETL logs? &nbsp;&nbsp;How can you use Windows PowerShell to show how many entries exist in all traditional event logs as well as ETL logs? &nbsp;Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet and pass a [&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-4103","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>PowerTip: Find the Number of Entries in Event Logs Summary: &nbsp;Use Windows PowerShell to find the number of entries in all event logs and ETL logs? &nbsp;&nbsp;How can you use Windows PowerShell to show how many entries exist in all traditional event logs as well as ETL logs? &nbsp;Use the Get-WinEvent cmdlet and pass a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/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=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}