Used in a Windows NT system to view system, security or application events that take place in the system. It can be used to find out what is (or went) wrong with the system so that planned maintenance can take place. The event viewer like most other NT tools can be read remotely. See also Windows NT.

A component you can use to view and manage event logs, gather information about hardware and software problems, and monitor security events. Event Viewer maintains logs about program, security, and system events. See also: event; event logging

Event Viewer is a component of Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems that lets administrators and users view the event logs on a local or remote machine.