Symbol $ in eventlog Item

[M. Tumenas]

I am trying to configure Item eventlog to monitor SQL server instances in event viewer. The key is like this:
eventlog[Application,,"|Error|Critical","MSSQLSERVER",,,all]
and it works just fine. But if I try to use a named instance for source it fails to retrieve any data. Example of named instance is like this:
eventlog[Application,,"|Error|Critical","MSSQLSERVER$NAMED",,,all]
I believe the issue is symbol $ . How do you handle it?

[steveboyson]

You could try to escape it, like "MSSQLSERVER\$NAMED". Don't know if that works.

[M. Tumenas]

You could try to escape it, like "MSSQLSERVER\$NAMED". Don't know if that works.

Thank you, it works. How do you know about this escape character? I have not found it in a manual. Or maybe I was looking in a wrong direction?

[steveboyson]

Backslash is always a common escape sequence.