A fast & handy alternative to Windows Event Viewer built on WPF
The inbox Windows Event Viewer is a great app that provides comprehensive functionalities in examining events. However, the user experience is not as good as I wish in some usage scenarios - for example, as the list view does not provide a preview for event messages, it would not be suitable to overview what was happening in the machine. EventLook aims to offer an alternative when you want to quickly examine Event Logs, with such UX issues addressed.
- Overview events with Event Log messages
- Asynchronous event fetching for quick glance
- Provides quicker sort, specifying range, filters, and search (coming soon)
- Quick access to your favorite Applications and Services Logs
- To view logs in an evtx file, drag & drop the file, then choose it from the list of event sources.
Just download the latest artifact, unzip it, and run EventLook.exe. No registry/local storage is used as of now.
- The basic structure for DataGrid with filters is based on an article in CodeProject: Multi-filtered WPF DataGrid with MVVM
- MvvmLight
- Extended WPF Toolkit
- Reading event logs are done by APIs in System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader namespace. The API provides a unified access to logs both from the legacy Event Logging and the modern Windows Event Log infrastructure.
In addition to TODO embedded in the code, wished features are listed up in Issues. I'd be happy if you could join the development!
- Fork it to your account
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create new Pull Request