Kiwi, The Easy to Use Syslog Server
January 16, 2019
Kiwi, The Easy to Use Syslog Server
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
We're currently using it to monitor our data center servers and network devices. It's helping us a great deal in identifying all sorts of issues across our infrastructure and server hardware. The easy to read and view log viewer as well as the easy to set to setup logging capabilities are outstanding.
- Collection of SNMP traps a reliable and stable collection server for these is crucial to troubleshooting and time to ROS. Kiwi excels at this.
- Easy to install set up and train users on.
- The free version is a good free tool and handy to use for personal labs and other smalle use cases.
- SNMP traps to user readable format is great, sometimes syslog and smnp messages can be hard to interpret and read with out a knowledge of how to do this.
- I think they could enhance their UI and update it a little.
- More filter options would be a great quality of life improvement
- Kiwi Syslog has dramatically improved our ability to correlate and identify problems across our infrastructure.
- This product has improved our turn around to ROS times.
- Syslog has allowed us the ability to collect and save multiple logs for troubleshooting issues with vendors. The ability to send log packages to vendors for troubleshooting is excellent.
I've not had any other interaction with other Syslog servers. The main reason for that is that Kiwi works outstandingly well at what it does. Simply put, I believe this product is a staple in the IT industry and will remain as such as long as they keep the tool current and improve it in the future.