Auditing and monitoring logs - made easier by Nagios
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
<div>We use Log Server to store our logs for auditing and monitoring purposes:</div><ul><li>Our auditors thank us for the ease of access to our internal tools' logs, saving a lot of time and effort that would be used to search for all activity in our storage and production servers;</li><li>We use Log Server to keep track of the health of our intern environments, creating routines that ping us when something goes differently from what we expected (such as CPU usage, or even improper access to our tools).</li></ul>
Pros
- Log auditing.
- Server monitoring.
Cons
- A bit hard to install and configure.
- High price.
Likelihood to Recommend
Nagios Log Server facilitates the ability to search all entries of logs in a quick and easy way. Beyond that, it has allowed us to configure alerts for notification when there are potential threats (may they be security threats or only application-side problems), and to filter the data for audits and compliance.
