Finding the most common errors in event logs using Powershell.
- by Paul
I have the event logs for one of our servers locally in .evtx format. I can load the log file into PS using the command:
Get-WinEvent -Path D:\Desktop\serverlogs.evtx
What I would like to do is on the Message field group events where the text matches by a certain percent (say 80% the same). As we have stacktraces for errors in the details which…