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Collecting Windows Security Events has always been a necessary but difficult job. Traditional methods depend on third-party collectors that must be installed, configured, and constantly maintained. They break, they lag behind updates, and they create unnecessary operational work. At the same time, they often flood Microsoft Sentinel with redundant or irrelevant data, driving up costs and slowing down investigations.

A practical guide for IT professionals, DevOps, security teams, platform engineers, and anyone who’s dealing with logs. In contemporary distributed systems, telemetry data—logs, metrics, traces, and events—serves as the primary mechanism for understanding internal system behavior. However, as system complexity increases, so does the volume and heterogeneity of telemetry.