Windows Event Logs hold a treasure trove of information, but manually digging through them is tedious and error-prone. In this session, we’ll show how to turn your event logs — such as Active Directory logs — into actionable insights by sending them to a Log Analytics workspace using PowerShell.

We start with the basics: connecting to your workspace, formatting event data, and sending it in a way that Log Analytics understands. From there, we’ll build a simple service that continuously monitors specific Event IDs, automatically uploads them, and makes the data searchable and visualizable. Along the way, you’ll learn best practices for batching events, handling errors gracefully, and minimizing load on your systems.

This session is designed to be approachable for beginners while still providing practical patterns you can reuse in production. By the end, attendees will be able to collect, centralize, and analyze event data efficiently — turning raw logs into useful operational intelligence.