Administering Event Logs

You can perform administrative tasks on event logs, such as creating custom logs and deleting event logs, on your local and remote computers.

Note

You must have appropriate access rights on a remote computer to access event logs. For more information, see Security Ramifications of Event Logs.

In This Section

• How to: Delete Event Logs
  Gives directions for deleting an existing log and all of its entries.

• How to: Determine If Specific Event Logs Exist
  Gives directions for querying to see if a specific log exists.

• How to: Create and Remove Custom Event Logs
  Gives directions for creating custom event logs on the local computer.

Related Sections

• Introduction to the EventLog Component
  Provides an overview of the EventLog component and how you can use it to interact with existing logs.