Event Log Manager software for Windows 11/10 and Windows Server

If you are looking for good freeware to view, manage and analyze your Windows Event Logs, you may want to check out these two – Event Log Manager & Event Log Explorer.

Event Log Manager software for Windows

1] Netwrix Event Log Manager

It is a free event log consolidation, alerting and archiving tool, that allows you to collect events logs from multiple computers across the network, alert on most critical events, and centrally store all events in a compressed format, enabling convenient analysis archived event log data. The free version supports up to 10 servers. Get it here.

Features and benefits:

Event Log Archiving
Event Log Consolidation
Real-Time Alerting
Web-based Reporting
Includes predefined reports for regulatory compliance.

2] Event Log Explorer

It is an effective software solution for viewing, monitoring and analyzing events recorded in Security, System, Application and another log of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Event Log Explorer greatly extends standard Windows Event Viewer monitoring functionality and brings many new features. It is free for personal use. Get it here. The Home license is free.

Main features and benefits:

Multiple-document or tabbed-document user interface depending on user preferences
Favorites computers and their logs are grouped into a tree
Manual and automatic backup of event logs
Event descriptions and binary data are in the log window
Advanced filtering by any criteria including event description text
Quick Filter feature allows you to filter event log in a couple of mouse clicks
Log loading options to pre-filter event logs
Fast navigation between events with bookmarks
Compatibility with well-known event knowledgebases
Color coding by Event ID
Print and export to different formats
Export log to different formats.