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Brass Contributor

Apr 16, 2018

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Monitoring Agent on Windows Workstations

Hello All, one quick question. Is there any reason that we should NOT install the Microsoft Monitoring agent on Windows 10 workstations? We are looking for near real-time alerting from Windows event ...

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Stanislav_Zhelyazkov
Apr 16, 2018
Hi

Usually Windows clients generate a lot more events than Windows Servers. Depending on the log you may spend a lot more than you've anticipated. Additionally usually workstations are not something you would monitor. Test with a couple of machine first how much data will be generated so you know what you will be paying. If you are ok with the price ingesting Windows event data works fine for both client and server.

Stanislav_Zhelyazkov

MVP

Apr 16, 2018

Usually Windows clients generate a lot more events than Windows Servers. Depending on the log you may spend a lot more than you've anticipated. Additionally usually workstations are not something you would monitor. Test with a couple of machine first how much data will be generated so you know what you will be paying. If you are ok with the price ingesting Windows event data works fine for both client and server.