What is Syslog-ng Store Box?
Syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) is an open-source log management and analysis solution developed by Balabit. It is designed to collect, process, store, search, and visualize high-volume log data from various sources.
Some key capabilities and features of SSB include:
- High performance log collection over TCP, UDP, SNMP, and Apache Kafka
- Disk-based log storage with data compression and encryption
- Powerful full-text search with support for regular expressions
- Customizable dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization
- Role-based access control for managing user permissions
- Open source software with community-driven development
SSB can handle extremely high log data volumes in range of hundreds of thousands of events per second. It has a built-in web interface for searching logs, creating statistics and custom reports, monitoring live log traffic, and analyzing long-term trends.
It can be integrated well with the syslog-ng log collector to build a complete log management solution. SSB complements syslog-servers by acting as a high performance log storage buffer and analytics engine. It is suitable product for organizations looking for scalable log management for security, operations, and compliance purposes.