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Once data is collected in OMS, it is stored in the OMS data store as records. Records that are collected by the various data sources configured for a workspace will have unique properties, and will get tagged with a unique Type property that identifies that data record as being from a particular data source. For instance, Windows event log data, once collected in the OMS repository, will be assigned a tag of type Event. This means that in Log Analytics, you can search for non-security Windows event logs by specifying a query, such as Event, as the where condition for your filter. Similarly, performance counter data will get tagged as data of type Perf, and you can use the query Perf to filter for this sort of data.

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