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title: Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell Overview
title: Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell overview
description: Use this article to use the Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell to review the diagnostic data sent to Microsoft by your device.
ms.service: windows-client
ms.subservice: itpro-privacy
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- must-keep
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# Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell Overview
# Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell overview
**Applies to**
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PS C:\> Install-Module -Name Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer
```
To see more information about the module, go to the [Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer](https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer) page in the PowerShell Gallery.
For more information about the module, go to the [Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer](https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer) page in the PowerShell Gallery.
### Turn on data viewing
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The Diagnostic Data Viewer for PowerShell provides you with the following features to view and filter your device's diagnostic data. You can also use the extensive suite of other PowerShell tools with this module.
> [!NOTE]
> [!TIP]
> For more information about the PowerShell commands available, see the [Microsoft.DiagnosticDataViewer module documentation](/powershell/module/microsoft.diagnosticdataviewer).
### View your diagnostic events.
### View your diagnostic events
Running `PS C:\> Get-DiagnosticData`, you can review your diagnostic events. These events reflect activities that occurred and were sent to Microsoft.
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PS C:\> Get-DiagnosticDataTypes
```
### Filter events by when they were sent.
### Filter events by when they were sent
You can view events within specified time ranges by specifying a start time and end time of each command. For example, to see all diagnostic data sent between 12 and 6 hours ago, run the following command. Data is shown in order of oldest first.
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PS C:\> Get-DiagnosticData -StartTime (Get-Date).AddHours(-12) -EndTime (Get-Date).AddHours(-6)
```
### Export the results of each command.
### Export the results of each command
You can export the results of each command to a separate file such as a csv by using pipe `|`. For example:
```powershell
PS C:\> Get-DiagnosticData | Export-Csv 'mydata.csv'
```
```powershell
PS C:\> Get-DiagnosticData | Export-Csv 'mydata.csv'
```
## Turn off data viewing
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### Modify the size of your data history
[!IMPORTANT]
> - Modifying the maximum amount of diagnostic data viewable by the tool might come with performance impacts to your machine.
> - If you modify the maximum data history size from a larger value to a lower value, you must turn off data viewing and turn it back on in order to reclaim disk space.
>- Modifying the maximum amount of diagnostic data viewable by the tool might come with performance impacts to your machine.
>- If you modify the maximum data history size from a larger value to a lower value, you must turn off data viewing and turn it back on in order to reclaim disk space.
You can change the maximum data history size (in megabytes) that you can view. For example, to set the maximum data history size to 2,048 MB (2 GB), you can run the following command.