Question

The Event Viewer (Microsoft Windows) or Console (Apple Mac OS X) is used for what purpose?

Answer 1

The operating system and any running program can log administrative events to the event log that may be used for fault isolation, debugging, but also journaling purposes.

With the event viewer you can browse these events. In Windows, you can easily start it by typing Windows+R (Run), and then typing eventvwr.

Answer 2

to view incidents recorded in the Application, Security, and System logs