Collecting Windows event logs sounds simple—until you try it at scale. Between confusing Group Policy settings, inconsistent event channels, and the sheer volume of data, most organizations end up with gaps they don’t even know exist. Those gaps can mean missed security incidents, incomplete forensic data, and compliance blind spots.
In this session, we’ll dig into the practical side of Windows Event Collection—what really works, what doesn’t, and how to build a dependable event forwarding architecture that doesn’t crush your endpoints or your SIEM. You’ll learn how to identify which events truly matter, how to tune your subscriptions for reliability and performance, and how to detect silent failures before they become audit findings.
For security engineers, this is about more than just getting logs from point A to point B. Silent failures in Windows Event Collection are one of the most frustrating problems security engineers face. Everything looks fine—subscriptions are configured, endpoints are online, collectors are running—yet key events quietly stop forwarding. You don’t realize it until you need those logs for an investigation, and by then, it’s too late.
In this session, we’ll show you how to detect and fix those silent failures before they undermine your visibility. You’ll learn how to monitor collector health, verify subscription delivery, and confirm that the events you think you’re collecting are actually arriving.
Five Things You’ll Learn to Detect:
- Silent subscription failures and stale collector connections.
- Dropped or delayed events due to queue or bandwidth limits.
- Misconfigured or missing event channels (PowerShell, Sysmon, Security).
- Policy drift and conflicting GPO settings across endpoints.
- Collector health and performance bottlenecks that lead to data loss.
Five Fixes You’ll Take Away:
- Implementing proactive health monitoring for WEC.
- Using heartbeat events to detect missing sources in real time.
- Validating channel configurations and subscriptions with PowerShell.
- Optimizing XPath filters to balance visibility and efficiency.
- Building redundancy into your event collection infrastructure.
Troubleshooting Windows Event Collection doesn’t have to be guesswork. With the right validation steps and monitoring practices, you can turn a fragile log pipeline into a reliable data source your detections can depend on. Join us to learn how to regain full visibility into your Windows environment—and keep it that way.
If you’re responsible for Windows logging, auditing, or detection engineering, this is one hour that can save you countless hours of troubleshooting later. Join us and get your Windows Event Collection under control—for good.
Please join us for this real training for free session.