Log management tools help to manage the very large volume of log messages, or computer-generated audit trails and event logs generated by servers and other network devices. Managing this data involves defining what needs to be logged, how it should be logged and how long the log data should be kept.
Like the broader category of IT operations analytics, log management is a cousin of business intelligence (BI) but exclusively focused on the IT domain. Like BI software, log management software provides a comprehensive view of transactional data across the organization rather than multiple data silos.
There are two basic varieties of log management system. The first is centralized logging servers that collect and consolidate logs for later consumption, but do not actually analyze data. The second is security information and even monitoring (SIEM) software that provides event logging, but also aggregation, correlation, alerting and reporting services. These are more sophisticated tools more likely to be used by larger enterprises with complex IT topographies.
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.
Loggly is a cloud-based log management service provider. It does not require the use of proprietary software agents to collect log data. The service uses open source technologies, including ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene 4 and Apache Kafka.
Sumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.
Austin based SolarWinds acquired log management tool Papertrail in April, 2015.
Splunk Light is the lightweight log search and analysis tool for small IT environments.
Logz.io in Boston offers their enterprise-grade log analytics application, oriented towards providing data security and eliminating the need for capacity management.
Check Point Software Technologies in Carlos, California offers log management software.
Logger (formerly HPE Arcsight Logger) is a log management option, acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
LogDNA headquartered in Mountain View offers their eponymous cloud log management or on-prem/self-hosted log management solution.
LogLogic, now from TIBCO (since the 2012 acquisition), is security information and event management (SIEM) software.
Logentries is a log management application from Rapid7 headquartered in Boston.
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RSA offers NetWitness Logs, a log analytics and log management tool, part of RSA Security's NetWitness suite.
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Snare is an IT security analytics suite of applications from Prophecy International headquartered in Adelaide, providing a complete log monitoring and management solution, as well as network threat intelligence.
Securonix headquartered in Addison also provides log management, via the Securonix Security Data Lake, a Hadoop based fault tolerant data platform designed to provide long-term security data retention.
Hillstone Networks headquartered in Santa Clara offers the Hillstone Security Audit Platform (HSA), a log management solution.
Rapid7 offers log management via the InsightOps application.
