NXLog Community Edition was launched many years ago and, being cross-platform and highly versatile, quickly became a leading log collection tool. With millions of downloads, it is widely used across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. While over 70% of users have upgraded to the more feature-rich and robust NXLog Enterprise Edition, many still rely on NXLog Community Edition due to its flexibility and fit for many use cases.

However, as technology advances and business and security demands grow, we are excited to introduce NXLog Platform—a modern, comprehensive solution that offers enhanced functionality and performance.

Read on to learn more, and send us your feedback or contact us for migration support from legacy solutions.

Top 5 reasons to upgrade from NXLog Community Edition to NXLog Platform

Here are five key reasons to upgrade to NXLog Platform. While NXLog Platform offers many advantages, these five will significantly enhance your experience and introduce new functionality for NXLog Community Edition users.

1. Modern, full-fledged log collection agent

NXLog Community Edition has served its users well over the years, but as it now receives only occasional maintenance updates, it may not fully meet the needs of today’s demanding environments. It’s even older than the 5th-generation NXLog Enterprise Edition, that has been retired in favor of NXLog Enterprise Edition 6.0.

With NXLog Platform, you benefit from the latest log collection agent, offering:

  1. Significantly improved log collection performance with the 6th-gen NXLog Agent engine

  2. Native support for over 100 operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, xBSD, Solaris, AIX, and more

  3. The best options to collect Windows events on the market, both agent- and agentless

  4. Hundreds of integration modules ready to use out-of-the-box

  5. Advanced features such as File Integrity Monitoring and support for SCADA/ICS/OT environments

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Figure 1. NXLog Platform onboarding

2. Agent fleet and pipeline management

Managing the agent fleet was often challenging with NXLog Community Edition, as no control plane software was included. In contrast, NXLog Platform offers a comprehensive fleet management solution with an intuitive web-based UI, allowing you to:

  1. Manage deployments seamlessly

  2. Perform real-time health checks on your agent fleet

  3. Configure and enforce pipelines efficiently, using configuration templates, visual routing, and more

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Figure 2. Log collection pipeline configuration

3. Integrated log storage and analytics

While collecting event data is essential, log storage and real-time or on-demand analysis are equally important, especially for compliance and operational insights. NXLog Community Edition was designed as a powerful log collector and forwarder, but it required integration with third-party backends like Graylog, Elasticsearch, and Splunk for log data storage and analysis.

NXLog Platform simplifies this by providing a fully integrated log storage and analytics backend out-of-the-box, available on-premises and as a future SaaS version. Key features include:

  1. A high-performance schemaless log storage database

    1. Capable of over 300k events per second (EPS), with 800% better single-thread ingestion performance compared to Elasticsearch

    2. Compression ratios of up to 7x, reducing storage costs

  2. Dashboards that support operational and security monitoring

  3. Log analytics with full-text queries, search templates, data export, and more

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Figure 3. NXLog Platform dashboards
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Figure 4. Log search and threat hunting

4. Solution packs for fast integrations and cost savings

Integration is critical when dealing with log collection, as organizations often need to send data to multiple destinations such as APM, SIEM, in-house analytics systems, and cloud storage solutions like S3 for long-term retention.

While NXLog Community Edition supported input/output routing and offered powerful filtering and transformation capabilities, integrating disparate log sources with complex systems like SIEMs (which often require strict data schemas) demanded significant configuration effort.

Additionally, the total cost of ownership for SIEM and APM systems has risen dramatically in recent years. As a result, it’s now a business necessity for log collection tools to filter out unnecessary data before ingestion, helping to control costs in environments where pricing is based on data volume or events per second (EPS). However, achieving this level of optimization requires deep expertise in both the target system and relevant domains like security, observability, and operations.

NXLog Platform simplifies this process with solution packs that provide seamless integration with popular SIEM and APM systems, including those from Microsoft, Google, and other market leaders, while automatically filtering out noise from event streams—helping to reduce costs and streamline operations.

5. And yes, NXLog Platform offers a forever-free plan!

NXLog Platform also offers a forever-free plan, giving you access to essential features at no cost, ensuring you can start using the integrated log collection and management solution right away with no upfront investment.

NXLog Platform is an on-premises solution for centralized log management with
versatile processing forming the backbone of security monitoring.

With our industry-leading expertise in log collection and agent management, we comprehensively
address your security log-related tasks, including collection, parsing, processing, enrichment, storage, management, and analytics.

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