check-windows-eventlog

check-windows-eventlog

Description

Checks a windows event log using a regular expression.

Setting

[plugin.checks.event-log]
command = "/path/to/check-windows-eventlog --log=LOGTYPE --type=EVENTTYPE --source-pattern=REGEXP --source-exclude=REGEXP --message-pattern=REGEXP --message-exclude=REGEXP --event-id-pattern=RANGE --event-id-exclude=RANGE --warning-over=N --critical-over=N" --fail-first

LOGTYPE

• Application
• Security
• System

EVENTTYPE

• Success
• Error
• Audit Failure
• Audit Success
• Information
• Warning

Tutorial

1. find message matches foo but not match bar.

   --message-pattern foo --message-exclude bar
   

2. find event which id is 900 or 901.

   --event-id-pattern 900,901
   

3. find event which id is between 900 and 1200, but not 1101.

   --event-id-pattern 900-1200 --event-id-exclude 1101