This rule generates an alert whenever an event log becomes full. Once an event log becomes full, new event instances are discarded. As a result, critical information is not collected, and the health-related system issues may go undetected.
The event log has reached the capacity. The most-likely cause for this is that the log is configured with one of the following log size configurations:
Overwrite events older than “N” days
Do not overwrite events (Clear log manually)
To resolve this Alert, perform the following procedures:
Save Log File and Clear
Open Event Viewer.
Right-click the appropriate event log and click Properties.
Click the Clear Log button.
If appropriate, save the log file.
Update log file configuration
Open Event Viewer.
Right-click the appropriate event log and click Properties.
Click Overwrite as needed or Overwrite events older than N days. In cases where “Overwrite events older than N days ” is clicked, you must adjust the days value so that grooming of the events can keep up with, or exceed the addition of new events to the log.
Sample Event:
This rule will generate an alert when any of the following events occur in the System Event Log:
The %1 log file is full.
Source: Eventlog; Event ID: 6000 The %1 log file is full.
| Target | Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win10.OperatingSystem | ||
| Category | EventCollection | ||
| Enabled | False | ||
| Alert Generate | True | ||
| Alert Severity | Warning | ||
| Alert Priority | Normal | ||
| Remotable | True | ||
| Alert Message |
| ||
| Event Log | System |
| ID | Module Type | TypeId | RunAs |
|---|---|---|---|
| EventDS | DataSource | Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider | Default |
| GenerateAlert | WriteAction | System.Health.GenerateAlert | Default |
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<Rule ID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win10.OperatingSystem.EventLogFull.Alert.MissionCritical" Enabled="false" Target="Win10!Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win10.OperatingSystem" DiscardLevel="100" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">
<Category>EventCollection</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="EventDS" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider">
<ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
<LogName>System</LogName>
<Expression>
<And>
<Expression>
<Or>
<Expression>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>EventSourceName</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value>Eventlog</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Expression>
<Expression>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>EventSourceName</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value>Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Expression>
</Or>
</Expression>
<Expression>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value>6000</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Expression>
</And>
</Expression>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="GenerateAlert" TypeID="SystemHealth!System.Health.GenerateAlert">
<Priority>1</Priority>
<Severity>1</Severity>
<AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win10.OperatingSystem.EventLogFull.Alert.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Data/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>
</AlertParameters>
<Suppression>
<SuppressionValue/>
</Suppression>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>