Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor
Find the events that explain crashes, shutdowns and failed services, and correlate them with changes.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 40 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Find relevant events in the System and Application logs and filter by time, level and ID.
- Interpret common event IDs for unexpected shutdowns, service failures and application crashes.
- Use Reliability Monitor to connect failures with recent changes.
Course outline
- 1.Event Viewer and Reliability MonitorVideo · 5 min
- 2.The logs and the events that matterLesson · 8 min
- 3.Reliability Monitor and PowerShellLesson · 8 min
- 4.Custom views, XML filters and event XMLLesson · 10 min
- 5.Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.App crashes the moment it opensScenario
- 8.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Microsoft Learn: Windows Event Log
- Microsoft Support: Kernel-Power Event ID 41 error
- Microsoft Learn: Get-WinEvent (PowerShell)
- Microsoft Learn: Reliability Monitor
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