Counting log results in Powershell

Question

I have an assignment where I have to pull information like \"Audit Failure\" & \"Audit Success\" from my Windows security log file and count the results of each ex. total a

Answer 1

Try Group-Object. Here is an example of grouping on property EntryType to get the count of successes and failures:

Get-EventLog -LogName Security | Group-Object -Property EntryType

Count Name                      Group                                          
----- ----                      -----                                          
21911 FailureAudit              {System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry, System.Di...
14132 SuccessAudit              {System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntry, System.Di...