PML Converter

Convert Process Monitor log files (PML) online for free


Drop or upload your .PML file

How to convert your PML file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PML file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert PML to another file type

The converter easily converts your PML log files to various formats - free and online. No Process Monitor or or other System software needed.

  • PML to PDF
  • PML to EPUB
  • PML to MOBI
  • PML to AZW3
  • PML to LIT
  • PML to LRF
  • PML to RTF
  • PML to RB
  • PML to HTMLZ
  • PML to DOCX
  • PML to TXTZ
  • PML to PDB

Convert a file to PML

To convert other file formats to the "System Log File" file type, you need software like Process Monitor or a similar tool.


About PML files

A .PML file is primarily a native log format generated by Process Monitor (Procmon), a free Windows troubleshooting utility developed by Microsoft Sysinternals. It captures real-time data about file system activity, Windows Registry changes, and process threads. Less commonly, the .PML extension is used for PROMELA source code in the SPIN model checker, XML-based robot behaviors in Aldebaran Choregraphe, or legacy Palm Markup Language documents.

The main disadvantage of the Procmon .PML format is its proprietary, binary structure. Because it is designed to handle millions of logged events rapidly, it cannot be read by standard text editors or imported directly into log analysis tools. Furthermore, .PML files are notorious for their massive size. A single logging session can generate tens of gigabytes of data in just a few minutes, making the files incredibly difficult to share, upload, or analyze.

To make this system data useful outside of the Procmon application, you must convert it. For data analysis and sharing, convert .PML to CSV, which allows you to filter and sort the millions of events in Microsoft Excel or ingest them into a SIEM. For programmatic parsing, convert to XML. Just drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing heavy debugging software.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your PML file.

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FAQ

If you want to convert PML file to CSV, AZW, KFX, PRC, OPF, CBZ or CBR, you can use Process Monitor or similar software from the "System Activity Logging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert FB2, MOBI, CBT, RTF, CB7, DOCX, DJVU, AZW, CBA, PDF, DOC or EPUB files to PML, try Process Monitor or another comparable tool in the "System Activity Logging" category.



The PML Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PML converter.