ManageEngine Log360 monitors, collects, parses, analyzes and archives syslog messages generated by the likes of switches, routers, and firewalls, among other network devices.
By seamlessly integrating with syslog servers, Log360 ingests and analyzes a wide range of log data from the aforementioned network devices and Unix-based systems. This integration allows organizations to centralize log management, enabling proactive threat detection, compliance readiness, and enhanced health monitoring.
How Log360 collects and analyzes syslog data
Log360 simplifies syslog log management using standard, scalable collection and analysis mechanisms:
- Syslog listener: Receives logs via UDP, TCP or TLS from devices supporting the syslog protocol.
- Log parser: Filters noise and extracts critical events based on parameters like severity and device source.
Monitoring capabilities
Log360 collects and analyzes syslog messages from a variety of sources and services:
- Network devices: Firewall activity, access control, VPN logs
- Unix/Linux systems: User logins, sudo usage, privilege escalations, process activities
- Application services: SSH, FTP, web servers, mail services, database logs
- System events: Kernel logs, daemon operations, startup/shutdown messages
Critical syslog events monitored
Log360 tracks key syslog events, including:
- Login attempts and authentication failures
- Privilege escalation and sudo command usage
- Configuration changes and system reboots
- Firewall policy modifications and traffic anomalies
- Suspicious process or service activity
Key benefits
- Centralized log visibility: Consolidate logs from all syslog-enabled devices and systems into a single, searchable console.
- Real-time security monitoring: Detect threats instantly through correlation rules, anomaly detection, and behavior analytics.
- Accelerated investigation and forensics: Drill down into logs with rich context, search filters, and historical event timelines.
- Compliance simplified: Generate audit-ready reports for standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST.
Address key syslog monitoring challenges
| Challenges |
Solutions offered by Log360 |
| Unifying log formats |
Normalize diverse syslog messages into a structured format for analysis |
| Security event visibility |
Gain real-time insight into unauthorized access, policy violations, and system anomalies |
| User and admin activity tracking |
Monitor login behavior, command execution, and configuration changes on Unix-based systems |
| Firewall log monitoring |
Track traffic patterns, access control violations, and device-level threats |
| Audit and compliance reporting |
Leverage built-in compliance reports mapped to key regulatory requirements |
Perform comprehensive syslog management with ManageEngine Log360
Log360 enables you to unify logs from syslog sources with other environments:
- Correlation with logs from diverse sources: Connect syslog data with logs from Windows devices, databases, cloud services, and applications.
- Faster anomaly detection: Detect insider threats using behavioral baselines across syslog and non-syslog sources.
- Threat intelligence integration: Identify risky IPs, domains, and file hashes using the data global threat feeds like ThreatFox and STIX/TAXII, among others.
- Built-in ticketing system: Significantly reduce response time for an incident by automatically assigning tickets to administrators with Log360's built-in ticketing tool.
Contextualize all your syslog data in one place
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