Real time event viewing across distributed control system servers

A system for providing automated event viewing for a process control network, comprising:

• a plurality of distributed control systems (DCS) each including DCS servers that receive process event data from one or more industrial processes, wherein each of the DCS servers is connected to one or more operator consoles for monitoring the one or more industrial processes, and wherein a first DCS server, of the plurality of DCS servers, is configured as a global event server (GES), wherein the GES includes an associated non-transitory machine readable storage and is configured for:
• storing received process event data in the non-transitory machine readable storage of the GES from of the industrial processes in real time from all other DCS;
• and
• transmitting in real time the process event data of the industrial processes from the non-transitory machine readable storage of the GES to one or more of the operator consoles that are not connected to the GES from which the process event data originated.