# palantir/windows-event-forwarding

A repository for using windows event forwarding for incident detection and response

Repository: https://github.com/palantir/windows-event-forwarding
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/windows-event-forwarding
Language: Roff
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: octo-correct-managed
Last push: 2025-09-08T15:37:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 41, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3284, "days_push": 359, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1342, forks 278 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:26.312869+00:00)

## What it is
A Palantir-maintained repository of Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) subscriptions and guidance for centrally collecting security-relevant event logs from Windows hosts. It provides building blocks to deploy WEF in production for incident detection and response.

## Use cases
- centralize windows event logs for security monitoring
- detect malware persistence via event subscriptions
- alert on log deletion and suspicious service account access
- deploy agent-free log forwarding across a windows domain
- build detection rules on forwarded windows events
- monitor access to sensitive filesystem and registry locations

## When to choose
- you run a Windows domain and want agent-free centralized event log collection
- you need forensic and security event data for incident detection and response
- you want community-maintained WEF subscription templates to start quickly

## When to avoid
- your fleet is mostly non-Windows
- you need cross-platform log shipping with rich transformation (consider dedicated log agents)
- you have no Windows Event Collector infrastructure or Active Directory domain

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, alerting, logging, security
- domain: security, monitoring, windows
- platform: windows, self-hosted
- tags: windows-event-forwarding, wef, incident-response, detection, subscriptions, log-collection, devops

## Member repositories
- palantir/windows-event-forwarding (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.312869+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:43:42.179065+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/palantir/windows-event-forwarding (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.312869+00:00, sha 0e890d17fe53)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.