What is NXLog?
NXLog is an open source solution for log management, security information and event management (SIEM), and network security monitoring. It provides capabilities for log collection, processing, storage, search, reporting, and analysis.
Some key features and capabilities of NXLog include:
- Multi-platform support - works on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Unix systems.
- Real-time log collection over UDP, TCP, file, database, and HTTPS.
- Filtering, parsing, enrichment, correlation, and analysis of log data.
- Powerful querying and visualization with support for over 100 field extractions.
- Integration with Elastic Stack, Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Agentless and lightweight deployment model.
- Compliance reporting based on collected log data.
- Anomaly detection and alerting for security threats.
NXLog can be used for log centralization from multiple systems and devices, meeting compliance requirements like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOX, building monitoring and analytics dashboards, and enabling security use cases like threat detection, incident response and forensic analysis.