{"id":4885,"date":"2012-10-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/01\/powertip-use-powershell-to-write-to-an-event-log\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-write-to-an-event-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-write-to-an-event-log\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Write to an Event Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use the <strong>Write-Eventlog<\/strong>&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to write to a standard or to a custom event log.<\/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 easily write output to an event log?<\/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\" \/>Use the <strong>Write-EventLog<\/strong> cmdlet, and make sure that you specify the log name and the source:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">write-eventlog -logname Application -source MyApp -eventID 3001 -entrytype Information `<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">-message &#8220;MyApp added a user-requested feature to thedisplay.&#8221; -category 1 -rawdata 10,20<\/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\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the Write-Eventlog&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to write to a standard or to a custom event log. &nbsp;&nbsp;How can you easily write output to an event log? Use the Write-EventLog cmdlet, and make sure that you specify the log name and the source: write-eventlog -logname Application -source MyApp -eventID 3001 -entrytype Information ` -message &#8220;MyApp [&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-4885","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 the Write-Eventlog&nbsp;Windows PowerShell cmdlet to write to a standard or to a custom event log. &nbsp;&nbsp;How can you easily write output to an event log? Use the Write-EventLog cmdlet, and make sure that you specify the log name and the source: write-eventlog -logname Application -source MyApp -eventID 3001 -entrytype Information ` -message &#8220;MyApp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","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=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/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=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}