How to export event logs

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Description

Here is how to export event viewer logs.

Steps

 

Application logs

  1. Open Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc).
  2. Click on the Application logs
    Windows Logs > Application
  3. Click Filter current log.
  4. Choose critical, errors, and warnings.
  5. Right-click the name of the log and select Save Filtered Log File As…
  6. Enter a filename that includes the server name and the type of log being saved.
  7. In Save as type, make certain .evtx is chosen.
  8. Click Display information for these languages and click English.
  9. Click Okay. 
  10. Zip the file and upload to support.

L2/L4 logs

  1. Go to Event Viewer > Applications and Services Logs > EktronL4 (version 8.5 and above) or EktronL2 (8.0.2 and below)
  2. Click Filter current log.
  3. Choose critical, errors, and warnings.
  4. Right-click the name of the log and select Save Filtered Log File As…
  5. Enter a filename that includes the server name and the type of log being saved.
  6. In Save as type, make certain .evtx is chosen.
  7. Click Display information for these languages and click English.
  8. Click Okay. 
  9. Zip the file and upload to support.