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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 solution and services such as Salesforce, Box, Okta, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Azure and Office365.

NXLog Chatter

NXLog in Swiss Cyber Storm presentation for Windows log collection that will leverage IOCs

The presentation by Michel de Crevoisier of Radar Cyber Security, "Facing the challenge(s) of Windows logs collection to leverage valuable IOCs", presented at Swiss Cyber Storm this week suggests NXLog as a solution to collect DNS transaction logs, to read and forward ETW logs, and for WEF/WEC.

2019.10.16. 18:42

NXLog in Datadog Post on Multiline Logging

Datadog, mentioned in our Integrations page, has published a post on handling multi-line logging which includes a summary of what the NXLog multi-line extension module can do in similar situations.

2019.10.07. 21:07

NXLog in the GSEC GIAC Security Essentials Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition

NXLog a recommended log collector in the most recent official GSEC guidebook for security professionals "GSEC GIAC Security Essentials Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition" released on August 2019. Get started with your own log collection via the NXLog Community Edition or Enterprise Edition and start gathering logs to SIEM suites.

2019.09.06. 10:55

NXLog News

Aug 15

We are happy to announce the release of NXLog Enterprise Edition v4.5 Our team has worked on and solved over 60 issues to reach this milestone. The highlight of the release is...

Jun 28

We are happy to announce that NXLog Manager v5.4.5227 is now available. A number of issues were fixed in this release: im_wseventing module client certificate update not pushed...

May 23

We are proud to announce that we have released NXLog Enterprise Edition v4.4 the other day. Our team has worked on and solved over 40 issues to reach this milestone. You can g...

Mar 13

We have released NXLog Enterprise Edition v4.3 today. Our team has worked on and solved over 70 issues to reach this milestone. You can grab the packages from Downloads. Insta...

What Users Say

Tired of Snare? Need more than what OSSEC can provide? Then check nxLog. It is a highly flexible event forwarder for both Windows and Linux. https://www.alienvault.com/forums/discussion/1800/nxlog-for-collecting-windows-logs

First of all, I checked out a bunch of centralized logging systems before finding nxlog, and it is refreshing in its simplicity and conciseness. I really appreciate the small and tight C code.

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.

Small and efficient and gets the job done.

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...

Have already spent lots of time testing other opensource tools, but none suited so far, only nxlog has helped this far that too with less memory, CPU and IO :)

I went in search of a logging tool that could solve at least some of these issues... After looking around for some time, I stumbled across nxlog. Nxlog seems to support just about every log format on the planet, and will run on Windows and *nix servers. Its easy to setup, and just seems to work. The configuration is logical.

Your open source solution looks like just the solution that we need. nxlog looks very promising and has a natural syntax.

I find that your product is very powerful and is one of the best choice for the implementation of a distributed log system in a heterogeneous network where multiple OS (Unix/Linux and windows) should be supported.

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

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