what's the fast and new way(based on high performance) of reading event logs from remote machine using c#

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I know this question has like 100's of similar questions. i have gone through most of them and they are outdated and doesn't seem to perform well.

I am trying to read event logs from remote computers using c#, the way which i am currently during is really slow (reading 60,000 logs) takes about 30 mins.

I am using

 EventLogReader Class

I have also tried Event Log Query and some WMI way. But truly speaking they are all really slow.

There most be some other way of doing this. How can I read them faster?

What is your actual requirement? 30 minutes for 60,000 logs seems pretty speedy to me. That's 2000 logs per minute, or about 33 per second. — Robert Harvey, Jul 21 '13 at 22:20
my actual requirement is to filter the log with event id and event source from the available logs. 30 mins is really slow — Bravo11, Jul 21 '13 at 22:22
while reading those logs visual studio consumes about 2.25 GB of memory — Bravo11, Jul 21 '13 at 22:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

I don't know if this is faster, but worth a shot

My suggestion is to skip the eventlogreader class and go straight to WMI ( where you may be able to query just what you want.

Also, you can get the remote machine to backup the event log then try copying the backup...

see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394593(v=vs.85).aspx

you may want to look at

How to construct WMI query

on how to do WMI From C#

what's the fast and new way(based on high performance) of reading event logs from remote machine using c#

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