A Logstash alternative

NXLog is vendor‑agnostic and works with any SIEM, analytics, or observability platform. It can forward logs in JSON, syslog, or other formats directly to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog, or your tool of choice. This means you can drop NXLog Platform into your existing workflow without changing your downstream systems – or use NXLog’s built-in storage alongside them for additional analytics. 

Logstash environments often require a swarm of specialized shippers on each host. NXLog Platform replaces Filebeat, Winlogbeat, etc., with one cross-platform agent that collects everything – files, Windows Events, Syslog, databases, and more. You’ll reduce maintenance overhead and avoid installing Java on every machine. Even on Windows, NXLog Platform captures event logs natively (including ETW providers) so you don’t need separate forwarders. 

NXLog Plaform’s multi-threaded, event-driven architecture delivers blazingly fast throughput while using minimal CPU and memory. Written in C/C++, it easily handles tens of thousands of events per second on modest hardware. Teams running NXLog Platform note the significantly lower resource usage compared to Logstash’s JVM processes, especially on underpowered or VM environments. In short – more logs, less lag, and no Java headaches. 

Designed for mission-critical logging, NXLog Platform includes built-in features to prevent data loss and unauthorized access. It supports encrypted transport (TLS/SSL) on every route, role-based access control and tamper-proof audit logs on the management console, and file integrity monitoring (FIM) and PII data masking at the agent. Moreover, buffering and failover are native capabilities: if a destination is down, NXLog Platform will queue or reroute data automatically to avoid outages. This reliability is baked in end-to-end, so you don’t need to bolt on third-party queues. 

Many teams choose NXLog Platform for its ability to easily “fan-out” data. A single NXLog agent can take an event and send it to several different systems at once – for example, to an Elastic stack, a security data lake, and a backup archive in parallel. There’s no need for multiple pipeline stages or custom plugins to duplicate streams. This empowers security and operations teams to share the same data without building separate collectors, simplifying your architecture. 

Beyond being a log shipper, NXLog Platform offers full log management capabilities. It includes a scalable storage backend and a search/query interface for analyzing logs. You can retain data with high compression, run SQL-like queries, and build dashboards – all within NXLog – reducing dependence on external databases or SIEMs. Use it to complement your existing analytics tools, or as an all-in-one solution in environments where deploying a full ELK stack is impractical. Either way, you’ll have greater flexibility in how you store and use your log data.