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What is NXLog?

NXLog Platform is an on-premises, centralized log management solution designed to help enterprises effectively manage and analyze security logs. It serves as the backbone of security and operations monitoring, enabling organizations to collect, parse, process, enrich, store, and analyze log data from a wide range of sources. NXLog addresses the critical tasks associated with security log management, ensuring organizations respond promptly to potential threats. The NXLog Platform is particularly beneficial for cybersecurity and infrastructure professionals. It supports all major operating systems, hardware architectures, and log formats, making it a flexible choice for diverse IT environments. By integrating with leading enterprise-grade tools and popular Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, NXLog empowers users to enhance their security posture. The platform is designed to improve infrastructure visibility, allowing organizations to gain insights into their systems and enhance threat prevention through a multi-platform approach. One of the key advantages of NXLog is its ability to reduce license costs associated with SIEM tools. By filtering out noisy and unnecessary log data, users can focus on high-quality logs that are essential for effective monitoring and analysis. The platform allows for the truncation of unused fields and the removal of duplicate entries, streamlining the log data and enhancing the overall quality. This capability not only improves the efficiency of security operations but contributes to cost savings by optimizing the use of SIEM solutions. NXLog simplifies IT security management by providing a single tool for log collection and aggregation from various systems across an organization. This reduction in complexity leads to decreased detection and response times, enabling teams to address security-related events more effectively. Furthermore, the platform aids organizations in meeting compliance requirements by centralizing logs in a SIEM while archiving others for long-term storage. Trusted by organizations worldwide, including government agencies, educational institutions, small businesses, and large enterprises, NXLog serves as a gateway to improved IT security and operations. By leveraging powerful insights derived from log data, businesses can mitigate cyber risks and achieve regulatory compliance, leading to enhanced observability across their IT infrastructure.

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Product Description

NXLog offers log management solutions for companies of all sizes.

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Vendor-agnostic log collection
The NXLog Platform can collect event data from over 120 log source types, including OS, databases, networks, enterprise applications, ICS/SCADA, legacy, and embedded systems.

Sending logs to any SIEM or APM
NXLog works with all major SIEM, log analytics, and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions, fulfilling your SOC and DevOps needs. You can easily and securely ship log data to multiple destinations.

World-class speed and scalability
NXLog Platform can manage 100k agents, sending data across a heterogeneous environment at ultrafast speeds. It flawlessly handles large deployments – seamlessly scaling to support your growing data volumes and diverse IT ecosystems.

Unmatched efficiency in event storage
With its columnar data storage and block-level, 7x compression ratio, NXLog Platform is designed for highly efficient log storage and low data storage requirements. Combined with its long-term archiving capability, you can implement an efficient event life-cycle management.


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The original development of NXLog by our Founder and CEO Botond Botyanszki began back in 2009. He bootstrapped NXLog from the ground up and oversees its expansion with our innovative growing team. While the aim was to offer a superior log collection solution, one that can work on all major operating systems and log analytics products, its capabilities extended far beyond that goal. We’ve been working remotely since day one with team members from around the world, enabling us to bring together the best talent in each field, and for our team to enjoy the flexibility and extraordinary work-life balance to deliver the best results. Our current staff number is 100+.

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Solid and light product for log collecting across platforms."
What was very helpful, on Windows side, is that the configuration is a text file which is easy to set up, customize, deploy, manage and integrate a...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Easy to learn, difficult to master"
NXLog is a powerful parser and an easy to set up way of moving logs between devices. Basic implementation is very simple. We use it on servers to...

NXLog Media

NXLog Demo - NXLog Platform Architecure
The NXLog Platform provides a complete observability pipeline solution.
NXLog Demo - Agent Configuration
Speed up agent configurations with NXLog Platform's intuitive, GUI-based configuration templates.
NXLog Demo - Customer Dashboard
Create your own dashboards to visualize and analyze log data according to your unique needs.
NXLog Demo - Log Search: Quick Start Dashboard
The default Quick Start Dashboard offers immediate insight into your log data.
NXLog Demo - Log Search: Log Discovery
Log Discovery is an advanced log search and filtering tool that allows you to drill down and examine complete log details and timelines.
Introducing NXLog Platform - your all-in-one solution for log collection and management.
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Introducing NXLog Platform - your all-in-one solution for log collection and management.
Longer introduction of the NXLog Platform - an all-in-one log management solution for modern observability.
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Longer introduction of the NXLog Platform - an all-in-one log management solution for modern observability.
NXlog Platform is a data ingestion solution recommended by Google. It helps to collect, enrich, and forward log data to Google Chronicle SIEM.
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NXlog Platform is a data ingestion solution recommended by Google. It helps to collect, enrich, and forward log data to Google Chronicle SIEM.

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What do you like best about NXLog?

NXLog is a powerful parser and an easy to set up way of moving logs between devices. Basic implementation is very simple. We use it on servers to forward logs to our SIEM and it has worked wonderfully for years. The few times I've had to deal with support, they've been responsive, persistent, and tenacious.

The nxlog configs are very easy to set up and then ignore. I rarely have to edit it these days. Integrating it with my new siem was the last time I had to do any real work on it until a recent update broke some of my configs. Support was responsive and a new version was released the resolved our issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NXLog?

While nxlog is easy to set up in a basic format, and very powerful, it takes time and effort to learn the ins and outs of the program and to build out exactly what you want. I guess, really, it's easy to learn, difficult to master. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NXLog solving and how is that benefiting you?

Forwarding logs from a wide variety of sources to our SIEM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NXLog?

What was very helpful, on Windows side, is that the configuration is a text file which is easy to set up, customize, deploy, manage and integrate across the infrastructure. Documentation is really great and clear. The software is usually a small footprint and runs without much fuss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NXLog?

Not everything is perfect on Windows side of things. For example, it's easy to install with GPO, but cannot be uninstalled via GPO. Also when you have an issue, it's sometimes difficult to find a solution. Their knowledge articles seem to be behind the paywall, or some of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NXLog solving and how is that benefiting you?

NXlog helps us centralize logs across different types of systems. Centralized logs are better for log management and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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