Winsock Logging - Enable, View, and Export

Winsock Logging - Enable, View, and Export

This article describes how to enable Winsock logging on your Windows device. It also covers viewing and exporting these results in the event that support requests these logs.

Enabling Winsock Logging

1. Open Event Viewer
   
2. Expand the Applications and Services Logs section, then expand Microsoft > Windows.
   
   
3. Scroll all the way down and expand the Winsock Network Event section, and right click on Operational, then select Enable Log.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Now that Logging is enabled, we want to configure it. Click the Properties option, and set the log size to 6016 (about 6 MB) and set the option for when the maximum event log size is reached to Overwrite Events as needed.
   
   
   
   

Viewing and Exporting Winsock Logs

1. To view the logs, refresh Event Viewer and you should already see some information populating in the Operational folder underneath the Winsock Network Logs folder.
2. If you need to export the logs or send them to support, right click on Operational and select the Save All Events As... option.
   
   
   
   
3. Please name the logs as the hostname of the device, and click Save.