Search them flatfile logs with ease on Powershell
This guy has a nice post on what I am getting at:
http://www.winblogs.net/index.php/2009/09/30/a-few-powershell-useful-tricks/
Where I take mine a little further, is that I’ll run this command either on a temp drive or a UNC path for interrogating logs on remote servers:
cat “\\servername\c$\Program Files\iis\w3xxxx.log” | findstr interestingString
