I would like to create a task to monitor the Windows Event Logs or the Application Log Files directly for a string in the log file and if found kick off a notification email. It looks like I can find this entry in the Event log but how do I get it to only look back from a certain amount of time? I only want to find these events happening today or in the last hour but these 2 Task Types don't give a Date option that I filter on.

I would like to create a task to monitor the Windows Event Logs or the Application Log Files directly for a string in the log file and if found kick off a notification email. It looks like I can find this entry in the Event log but how do I get it to only look back from a certain amount of time? I only want to find these events happening today or in the last hour but these 2 Task Types don't give a Date option that I filter on.

Hi Mark,

We do have the Event log trigger, would that be suitable for your purpose? With the trigger - it happens in real-time. Trigger -> Event trigger -> Event log

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Thank you that's helpful. I'm trying the Event Log Triggers and am struggling to get the trigger to fire. I've tried configuring the Event log entry variables to a basic log entry and don't see anything triggering. It would be helpful if I could see an example of a Job that was looking for a Windows Event Log entry and triggering when that happened.

Thank you that's helpful. I'm trying the Event Log Triggers and am struggling to get the trigger to fire. I've tried configuring the Event log entry variables to a basic log entry and don't see anything triggering. It would be helpful if I could see an example of a Job that was looking for a Windows Event Log entry and triggering when that happened.

Could you show screenshot(s) of how you set up the trigger please? You can send them to support@visualcron.com if you like and just include your text here

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I seem to have this mostly working now. The problem was that I was trying to use the Event log entry variable for "Description contains:" to look for text in the message area of the event log. Can you explain how the "Description contains:" part of the Event log entry variables works? Are there wildcards or special formatting needed for the text search to work? Thanks!

I seem to have this mostly working now. The problem was that I was trying to use the Event log entry variable for "Description contains:" to look for text in the message area of the event log. Can you explain how the "Description contains:" part of the Event log entry variables works? Are there wildcards or special formatting needed for the text search to work? Thanks!

Hi Mark,

From the documentation:
"Description contains

The formatted, localized text for the message. This includes associated replacement strings. Enter a text that exists in a part of the description/message."

Is it not working as described?

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