Event Log Explorer
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Event Log Explorer, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Event Log Explorer's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free home license | Free | Personal non-commercial use · Not for corporate networks · Not for forensic purposes |
| Enterprise Edition — 1 user, 5 Elodea nodes | $529 a month | 1 user · 5 Elodea nodes · Includes 1 year maintenance |
| Enterprise Edition — 3 users, 10 Elodea nodes | — | 3 users · 10 Elodea nodes |
| Enterprise Edition — 5 users, 25 Elodea nodes | — | 5 users · 25 Elodea nodes |
| Enterprise Edition — 7 users, 50 Elodea nodes | — | 7 users · 50 Elodea nodes |
| Enterprise Edition — 10 users, 100 Elodea nodes | — | 10 users · 100 Elodea nodes |
| Home non-commercial license | Free | For home use on a home computer or in a home network |
| Standard Edition | $209, paid once | 1-user license; volume discounts: 10–24 $156.00 each, 25–49 $136.00 each, 50+ $104.00 each; 1 year of maintenance free |
| Forensic Edition | $529, paid once | 1-user license; volume discounts: 10–24 $419.00 each, 25–49 $349.00 each, 50+ $264.00 each; 1 year of maintenance free |
| Enterprise Edition | $529, paid once | 1 user and 5 Elodea nodes; other listed bundles: 3 users/10 nodes $1,059.00; 5/25 $1,589.00; 7/50 $2,119.00; 10/100 $2,649.00; includes 1 year maintenance |
The facts
Each one read from Event Log Explorer's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Consolidation and reports
- Users can consolidate logs from networked machines, export events to formats including Excel, CSV, and HTML, and generate or schedule reports and exports.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Database and export utilities
- The Enterprise Edition includes an event-log database exporter for SQL Server, while the Enterprise and Forensic editions include an event-log exporter for formats such as Excel, OpenOffice spreadsheets, and PDF.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 21 Sep 2026
- Enterprise collection
- The Enterprise Edition includes Elodea Event Collector for collecting events in real time and saving them into a database.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Filtering
- It supports filters at before-load, on-load, and after-load stages, with criteria based on nearly any condition.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Forensic tools
- The Forensic Edition supports damaged log files, disk images, event-log snapshots, and forensic options including deep scans and anomaly checks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The feature matrix lists AI integration using large language models to analyze event details and find troubleshooting steps, plus importing computers from Active Directory, XML, or text files.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker identifies information-security professionals, digital-forensic investigators, Windows administrators, law enforcement and government, enterprise teams, service providers, and home users as audiences.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Live log tailing
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Log sources
- It works with local and network live logs and saved EVT or EVTX files, and can read damaged log files directly without the Windows Event Log API.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The website privacy statement says its web server automatically collects visitors' IP addresses and that it does not collect credit-card data.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Event Log Explorer is Windows software for viewing, analyzing, and monitoring Microsoft Windows event logs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Support
- The purchase page includes one year of maintenance, described as Support & Updates, free with Standard and Forensic licenses.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2000checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Trial
- The download page offers business users a free, fully functional 30-day trial with three editions available.checked 8 Oct 2026
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