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At NXLog, our mission is to provide you with solutions to enable you to collect event data securely reliably efficiently

We offer superior log collection technology that works on all major operating systems, is compatible with most SIEM and log analytics products, and can handle data sources that other tools cannot cope with giving you more visibility into your systems and operations.

NXLog is trusted by thousands of users and organizations across the globe, and is used and recommended by MSSPs and IT security professionals.

Log Collection Solutions

The NXLog Community Edition is an open source log collection tool available at no cost. It is available for various platforms including Windows and GNU/Linux. The NXLog Community Edition is used by thousands worldwide from small startup companies to large security enterprises and has over 70,000 downloads to date. Its flexibility allows it to be utilized in various setups and can be used both as a log collector agent and as a log server.

In addition to the features that our NXLog Community Edition users love such as the flexibility, low memory footprint and high performance, the NXLog Enterprise Edition contains dozens of enhancements and additional features which can be useful in enterprise deployments. These features are enhanced reliability, support for additional log sources such as CheckPoint LEA, NetFlow and SNMP events, agent management and monitoring capabilities, remote Windows EventLog collection, ODBC input and output modules to read/write data into databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server) and many more.

Managing and monitoring a large number of log collector agents can be tough, especially if you have a lot of servers in different roles with multiple teams in charge. NXLog Manager can remotely manage and monitor NXLog Enterprise Edition instances using a centralized web based management console.

We offer a number of add-on products to collect logs from various solutions and services such as Salesforce, Box, Okta, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Azure and Office365.

NXLog Chatter

NXLog is recommended and used to send Windows Logs to Remote Syslog

2022.06.13. 10:14

NXlog is used to collect logs that help catching a malicious actor. An initial alarm was triggered by a Windows Defender detection of Cobalt Strike on an internal customer asset. The associated log was provided to USM Anywhere using NXLog and was detected using a Windows Defender signature.

2022.05.10. 19:34

NXLog is recommended in this thread for filtering event logs

2022.05.09. 12:04

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It is known that measuring performance is one of the most challenging tasks in system administration. It requires proper configuration and a good understanding of the results...

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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Collect logs from your macOS computers centrally to increase security We are happy to share the recording of our latest webinar focusing on the importance of ...

May 17

NXLog Community Edition 3.0.2284 is now available on the download page This is a minimal hotfix release addressing two critical bugs community users reported against the releas...

What Users Say

I definitely prefer the way you present configuration to that of rsyslog etc. I have suggested nxlog to some customers however as far better option to collectors from the likes of Arcsight...

nxlog is a GREAT application, and it has countless uses in my development test environment. Glad I ran across it!

In researching how to get nxlog up and running, I found the configuration syntax easy to use and really flexible. Thank you very much for the excellent program NXLOG.

I set a lab environment up today with. A few ios syslogs, nix syslogs, and a 2008 nxlog sender. It(nxlog) fetched the events and sent it with no hassle. Pretty cool I must say...

I'm using nxlog-ce for a couple of weeks now, and I love it. Every day I'm finding out a new detail that impresses me, or an easier way to solve a problem I had before...

papertrailapp.com: To send log files and event logs from all Windows variants, we recommend nxlog.

On Linux systems, there are many options for converting arbitrary logfiles into syslog. For Microsoft Windows, there are reasonable free options for converting Eventlogs to Syslog, such as SNARE. There are excellent, but expensive tools like Splunk for parsing any sort of data you like. But I really struggled to find anything that could run on Microsoft Windows, convert a custom logfile to syslog, and send it to two destinations simultaneously. After much fruitless searching, and more than a few dead-ends, I found the answer: nxlog. http://lkhill.com/nxlog-convert-to-syslog/

nxlog is a lot leaner and does a great job pulling Windows Event Log data and forwarding it to Logstash using JSON or GELF. Its configuration syntax is also a lot more robust and full-featured than Logstash's, so you might find it easier to do complex things with your event logs before you forward them, like filtering out noisy logs before they ever get to the server.

Loggly.com: nxlog is a great choice for Windows systems. A sample nxlog configuration is available in our Knowledge Base.

Faced with no budget and the reality of a heterogeneous environment I discovered that ONLY nxlog and Splunk will sensibly (i.e. structured) capture Windows logs while providing TCP, TLS and buffering. I settled on nxlog agents on the servers forwarding to an nxlog receiver...

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