Imagine trying to buy tickets for your favorite band’s concert, only to find the website down just minutes before they sell out. Or logging into the cloud to look through your cherished digital photos and discovering they’ve been lost because of a data center failure. These scenarios are — at best — frustrating for you. But, for your customers, they can erode trust and damage your business’s reputation. That’s why organizations invest in strategies like high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT).

People think about logs as one of the biggest chores in the IT industry. Well, that does not necessarily need to be true. If you adhere to some fundamental log management best practices, the value you could get out of them quickly outweighs the effort put into managing them. Logs can easily become the best friend of IT teams looking to keep their systems secure, meet compliance requirements, and maintain a smoothly running network.

We are happy to announce the latest release of NXLog Platform, version 1.5. This release brings several key improvements, changes, and fixes to aid usability, security, and performance. Our team is introducing a major change to log storage, adjustments in log retention settings, and expanded authentication options. Below, we highlight the most significant changes. Enhanced data storage with ClickHouse NXLog Platform 1.5 introduces a major upgrade to its data storage using ClickHouse, enhancing scalability and resilience while optimizing log storage and retrieval efficiency.

In my early days as a Junior Sysadmin, I learned the value of automation when tasked with configuring hundreds of Windows XP machines. Yes, there was a version of Windows called XP. Automating large and repetitive tasks saves time and ensures scalability and consistency in IT environments. Scalability has become very important in IT, and in the golden age of automation tools and APIs, what could be a better way to execute the mass deployment and configuration of your log collection tool than using these very mature and available technologies?

Logs play a critical role in IT infrastructure, and choosing the right log management solution is key to effective operations. This guide explores the core principles for selecting a solution that aligns with your log collection and management needs. Given the wide range of options available, we categorize them into three main groups for clarity. End-to-end Log Management Solutions Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) Application Performance Monitoring and Observability (APM)

We are happy to announce the latest release of NXLog Platform, version 1.4. This release adds new features and bug fixes, including the ones highlighted below. Improved agent onboarding This release includes a new enhanced agent onboarding wizard. The process is much simpler yet achieves much more than the previous version. The new method incorporates everything you need to install, configure, and enroll your agents in five simple, easy-to-follow steps.