Info

License: Free — part of the universal collection tier.

Warning

Windows only. The probe subscribes to channels through the Windows Event Log API. On Linux and macOS it reports a clear not supported on <OS> error at start and stays inert — the same configuration file can ship to a mixed fleet.

Windows Event Log Probe

The windows_eventlog probe subscribes to Windows Event Log channels — System, Application, Security, or any operational channel (Citrix, FSLogix, ...) — and ships each event as a structured OTel log record through the OTLP storage. Filtering by level, EventID and provider happens at the agent, so only the events you asked for leave the host.

Quick start

probes:
  - name: windows-events
    type: windows_eventlog
    params:
      channels: [System, Application]
      levels: [Critical, Error, Warning]
      bookmark_path: 'C:\ProgramData\senhub-agent\eventlog.bookmark'

Parameters

Parameter	Default	Description
channels	required	Channel names, e.g. System, Security, Citrix-XenDesktop-VdaPlugin/Operational
levels	all	Filter: Critical, Error, Warning, Information, Verbose (case-insensitive). Evaluated by the Event Log engine itself, so filtered events are never rendered
include_event_ids	all	Allow-list of EventIDs — only these are emitted
exclude_event_ids	none	Deny-list of EventIDs; takes precedence over the allow-list. The standard noise-suppression knob
sources	all	Provider name globs, e.g. Citrix*, FSLogix*
bookmark_path	none	File persisting the per-channel subscription position, so a restart resumes without loss or duplication. Without it, the probe tails from now on each start
backlog	false	Replay events from the persisted bookmark (or from the start of the channel) before switching to live tail
redact_pii	false	Blank sensitive Security-channel fields (account names, IP addresses) in the rendered body and event data — for GDPR-constrained environments
poll_interval	30s	Bookmark flush cadence. Event delivery itself is push-based; this does not add latency

Output

Each event becomes one OTel log record: channel, provider, EventID, level (mapped to OTel severity), task, keywords, the rendered message as the body, and the EventData fields as attributes.

Operational notes

• Push, not poll. Events are delivered by subscription the moment they are written; poll_interval only drives bookmark persistence.
• Filter at the source. Level filters compile to an XPath query evaluated by the Event Log engine. EventID lists and provider globs are applied in-process. On a noisy Security channel, combining levels with exclude_event_ids keeps volume sane.
• Security channel. Reading it requires the agent to run with sufficient privilege (the service installs as LocalSystem by default, which suffices). Consider redact_pii: true when the records leave a controlled perimeter.
• Bookmarks are cheap insurance. Without bookmark_path, an agent restart loses whatever fired while it was down. With it, the subscription resumes exactly where it stopped.