Reading Event logs efficiently using C#

This post is extension is my last post on Event Viewer. Please the find the link below.

Working with EventViewer using C#

We’ll be talking about the reading event logs. In my last post I discussed about reading the event logs. But that is very slow because that loads all the event entries in memory and then iterate one by one. Say if we have around one five thousand entries in the log then it will load all the entries in memory and then allows to iterate one by one. It makes the reading of logs very slow. Also at certain point of point we might require to read the event logs on some specific criteria or want to read some specific logs then also we need to load all the events and iterate and find the required entry.

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Working with EventViewer using C#

There are several phases of a Application . It does not end with developing the application and deploying it on production servers. Other most important part, any problem surfaces after the deployment, how quickly the problem can be be resolved and according to severity of the issue (if required) a patch can be deployed on production. Apart from this, we also want to get notified on all the issues occurred on production and accordingly analyze and take care in future releases. We can also log other details that could be useful to check the status of Application.

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