Event Log Monitoring with RSS

I’ve written some sample code to generate a RSS feed from the Windows Event Logs. This is very handy for monitoring servers - perhaps a poor man’s SNMP monitor. :-)

Here’s an screen shot showing it in NewsGator (click for larger version):

You can specify in the URL how many entries to return, and which logs to use. For example,

http://example.org/Rss.aspx?num=20&logs=Application,System

would return the 20 most recent entries, looking in both the Application and System event logs.

Download here - requires ASP.NET. If your server is on the internet rather than local, try it with my HTTP security samples [Basic, Digest] to securely monitor the event log of the remote server - very handy for those hosting on remote, dedicated servers.