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# PowerShell: Export Event Log to CSV
- URL: https://www.filipkonopik.com/powershell-export-event-log-to-csv/
- Published: 2026-07-27T10:16:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-06T05:44:22.000Z
- Author: Filip Konopík
- Tags: Event Logs & Monitoring

Need to export Event Log entries to a CSV file - for sharing with a team, archiving, or analyzing in Excel? This one-liner pulls the events and saves them directly to a file.

Prerequisites: 

- Privileges: None (for System and Application logs; Security log requires Administrator)
- Module: Built-in, no import needed

Quick Command:

```Powershell
Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable @{LogName='System'; Id=1074} -MaxEvents 5 | Export-Csv -Path "C:\EventLog.csv"
```

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How It Works:

- Get-WinEvent -FilterHashtable filters the log for specific events - here, Event ID 1074 from the System log - the same filtering approach covered in the general Event ID lookup article.
- \-MaxEvents 5 limits how many events get pulled, since exporting an entire unfiltered log could result in a massive file.
- | Export-Csv -Path "C:\\EventLog.csv" pipes the filtered events into Export-Csv, which writes them to a CSV file at the specified path - by default, this produces no output in the terminal, since the result goes straight to the file instead.