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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

Collect Zeek (Bro) logs with NXLog and Chronicle

This guide describes how you can deploy Zeek (formerly Bro) and NXLog with Chronicle to collect Zeek logs in JSON format.

2022.01.21. 10:23

Using NXLog with Graylog Sidecar to collect Windows Event Log

Graylog community forum discussion about collecting logs from different Windows machines using NXLog with Sidecar.

2022.01.21. 08:39

Google mentioned NXLog as a source of data for Chronicle

Collecting Microsoft Windows DNS log data to be ingested by Google Chronicle using NXLog.

2022.01.06. 09:22

NXLog News

Jan 03

The value of log aggregation There is no denying the importance of log aggregation for multi-million-dollar enterprises worldwide. But just what is log aggregation? And how c...

Dec 13

NXLog is aware of the recently discovered Log4J vulnerability that is tracked as CVE-2021-44228. This vulnerability impacts Log4J 2 versions between 2.0-beta9 and 2.14.1. The N...

Nov 18

Live Webinar: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) log collection Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are frequent targets for cyberattacks, and according to security research, the sca...

Oct 27

Features of NXLog Enterprise Edition you must have So, it turns out that your organization needs a reliable solution that can collect, parse, forward, and aggregate your log ...

What Users Say

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Our Partners

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Raijin develops database products suitable for ingesting and storing event log data. NXLog Enterprise Edition can be configured to send logs directly to Raijin Server using the Raijin (om_raijin) output module.

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