Explanation:

According to Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) documentation, when configuring data collection from Windows Security logs, you can use XPath filtering to limit which event IDs are collected.
This helps optimize data ingestion by filtering out unnecessary events.
In this scenario, the requirement is to collect only event IDs 4624 (successful sign-in) and 4625 (failed sign- in) . The PowerShell cmdlet Get-WinEvent supports several filtering methods: -FilterXPath , -FilterHashtable
, and -FilterXml . To test the same XPath syntax used by the connector, you must use -FilterXPath , because this option accepts the same XPath query string format as used in the AMA data collection rule (DCR).
The correct XPath syntax for filtering specific event IDs from the Security log is:
Security!*[System[(EventID=4624 or EventID=4625)]]
This expression instructs the event query to return only events from the Security log whose EventID equals
4624 or 4625.
Finally, to validate the filter, you run:
Get-WinEvent -LogName ' Security ' -FilterXPath $events
This command executes the filter locally and confirms that the syntax correctly retrieves the intended events.
Therefore, the correct completed script is:
# $events = ' Security!*[System[(EventID=4624 or EventID=4625)]] '
# Get-WinEvent -LogName ' Security ' -FilterXPath $events