A ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer alternative | NXLog

EventLog Analyzer collects into EventLog Analyzer: its reports, alerts, and search assume it's the destination. NXLog Platform collects once and delivers wherever your detections run — Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, Google SecOps, an OpenTelemetry endpoint, or NXLog's own storage and search. Your SIEM keeps its context; you skip the second console.

WMI polling reads event logs. NXLog Agent also captures ETW traces, Windows Event Forwarding streams, Registry changes, file integrity events, and Microsoft DNS Server logs — the channels investigations turn on.

EventLog Analyzer's default agentless mode polls hosts over WMI, which means DCOM ports open across the estate and collection credentials held on one server. NXLog does agentless through Windows Event Forwarding: hosts push events to a collector, with no collection account to provision or protect.

ManageEngine's own best practices guide rates a standalone node at about 2,000 events per second for Windows event logs and 20,000 for syslog; past that, you're designing a distributed deployment. NXLog Agent parses and filters on each endpoint, so throughput grows with the fleet instead of queuing at one server.

EventLog Analyzer agents cover Windows and Linux; everything else arrives as syslog. NXLog Agent runs natively on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, and Solaris, with legacy modules for Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 — every agent enrolled, configured, and updated from NXLog Platform.

NXLog Agent drops, rewrites, and converts events at the source, so only data worth keeping leaves the host. Whatever sits downstream — EventLog Analyzer included — indexes less noise.

Windows Event Log through the modern API, Event Tracing for Windows for channels the Event Log doesn't carry, agentless collection as a Windows Event Collector for WEF clients, Registry monitoring, file integrity monitoring, performance counters, and Microsoft DNS Server log parsing. Legacy modules cover Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 where they still run.

NXLog Agent forwards to Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, Google SecOps, Securonix, and ArcSight, and speaks OTLP over HTTP(S) and gRPC to OpenTelemetry backends. Prefer to keep some data out of the SIEM bill? NXLog Platform stores logs on your infrastructure and gives you search on top.

Enroll agents, distribute configuration centrally, watch health, and roll out updates remotely from NXLog Platform. Solution packs give you working pipelines for common routes — Windows to Google Chronicle, syslog to an OpenTelemetry backend, Okta to Google SecOps — so day one starts from a template, not a blank config.

Filter events, rewrite fields, and convert between formats — syslog, JSON, XML, CSV, CEF, LEEF, GELF — before data leaves the host. Buffer to disk through outages, compress and encrypt in transit, and de-duplicate repeating messages. Whatever you run downstream receives structured events, not raw noise.

A source is a system, device, or application NXLog collects from — a server, a firewall, a container cluster. You pay per source, flat: ETW, file integrity monitoring, Registry monitoring, DNS parsing, and every output are included on every plan. No add-on SKUs, no per-type price list. The Free plan covers up to 10 sources with the full feature set.

You don't have to rip anything out on day one. EventLog Analyzer includes a built-in syslog server (default listener ports 513 and 514), and NXLog Agent forwards standard syslog over UDP, TCP, or TLS. Put NXLog in front: reach macOS, AIX, ETW, and isolated segments WMI can't, trim noise before it counts against the node's throughput, and keep existing reports running. It's plain syslog on both ends — no connector to buy, no new lock-in. Repointing outputs later is a configuration change, not a re-instrumentation project.