I am currently running into a problem with an eventlog monitor I created a while ago.
My application subscribes to the EntryWritten events of the EventLog.
I noticed that if multiple events occurs at the same time (within the same second), only one of them raises the event which triggers my eventhandler.
_eventLog = new System.Diagnostics.EventLog(_logName);
_eventLog.EntryWritten += new EntryWrittenEventHandler(eventlog_EntryWritten);
_eventLog.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
Is it possible to avoid this behavior, so my eventlog_EntryWritten method will be called for all events that are logged to the eventlog?
Events usually dont run in Async mode, and so if eventlog_EntryWritten does not finish before another event, you probably miss the events. Raise your own async event in fire and forget method. I am not sure, but probably this will be more effective. Or have your own class using polling mechanism to read the events.
It's worse than that - it's within a five second interval:
The system responds to WriteEntry only if the last write event occurred at least five seconds previously. This implies you will only receive one EntryWritten event notification within a five-second interval, even if more than one event log change occurs.
(from EventLog.EntryWritten)
If you need to track all events then (if they're yours), I'd suggest adding a wrapper function around WriteEntry that can catch all of the entries before they're even written to the log.
