Manage Event Logs

Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista

You can use Event Viewer to manage various aspects of your event logs. To do so, you typically: navigate to and select the event log to manage, right-click and select Properties to access its properties dialog, and then update the appropriate values.

You can perform the following log management tasks by using Event Viewer:

• Clear an Event Log

• Set Maximum Log Size

• Set Log Retention Policy

• Enable Analytic and Debug Logs

• Archive an Event Log

You can also use the wevtutil.exe command line tool to manage your event logs. Where applicable, the preceding topics include information about how to accomplish the task from the command line. To learn more about the wevtutil.exe command-line tool, type wevtutil /? at a command prompt.