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Use NXLog for sending Window Event Logs

To send Window Event Logs, please use our NXLog integration. Please see the docs here for more information on the installation.

Requirements

To install the agent through Chocolatey, you will need:

• Windows 7+/Windows 2003+ (Server Core also, but not Windows Nano Server)
• Windows PowerShell v3+ (not PowerShell Core aka PowerShell 6 yet)
• .NET Framework 4.x+

Setup

To enable logging on your Windows environment, install the agent through Chocolatey

1. Install Chocolatey

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

2. Install the LogDNA agent for Windows
   choco install logdna-agent -y

3. Add your LogDNA ingestion key for the agent to work
   logdna-agent -k <insert your LogDNA ingestion key>

4. Start the LogDNA agent using nssm
   nssm start logdna-agent

Configurations

Files and Directories

By default. the logs in this directory are ingested:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\logs

To add other directories, use
logdna-agent -d C:\path\to\log\folders

To add other files, use
logdna-agent -f C:\path\to\log\folders\my.log

Configuration File

By default a configuration file is automatically generated (e.g. when you enter the ingestion key in step 3 above) and placed in the following path:
C:\ProgramData\logdna\logdna.conf

To create your own config file, use the following command:
logdna-agent -c C:\path\to\config\file\path

Check the Readme on Github to learn more about what options are supported in the configuration file.

Here is a sample configuration file:

PS C:\Windows\system32> logdna-agent -l
C:\ProgramData\logdna\logdna.conf:
logdir   = C:\ProgramData\logs
key      = <your key>

You can view your configuration file at anytime with this command: logdna-agent -l

Tags

You can tag each agent instance with a tag to be viewed on the LogDNA app.

logdna-agent -t mytag