Administering Event Logs 

You can perform administrative tasks on event logs on your local and remote computers, such as creating custom logs, deleting event logs, and clearing log entries.

Note
You must have appropriate access rights on the remote computers to create and delete logs. For more information, see Security Ramifications of Event Logs.

In This Section

• How to: Delete Event Logs
  Gives directions for deleting an existing log and all of its entries.

• How to: Determine If Specific Event Logs Exist
  Gives directions for querying to see if a specific log exists.

• How to: Create and Remove Custom Event Logs
  Gives directions for creating custom event logs on the local computer.

• How to: Clear Event Logs
  Gives directions for deleting entries from an event log.

Related Sections

• Introduction to the EventLog Component
  Provides an overview of the EventLog component and how you can use it to interact with existing logs.