Virtual environments are dynamic and complex. Without the right visibility, risks can go unnoticed. By integrating VMware ESXi with Log360, you gain centralized visibility into ESXi logs, making it easy to track VM activity, host-level changes, and user behavior across your virtual infrastructure.
Auditing and monitoring capabilities
Log360 enables targeted monitoring of critical ESXi operations.
- Track infrastructure-level operations: Monitor host reboots, shutdowns, and configuration updates to maintain operational continuity and detect potential tampering.
- Detect unusual logon patterns: Analyze logon and logoff events on ESXi hosts to flag anomalous access, such as logins at odd hours or from unfamiliar IPs.
- Audit guest OS-level logins: Capture user login attempts inside VMs to detect cross-VM access or abuse of internal credentials.
- Enrich ESXi logs with contextual insights: Correlate ESXi activity with broader network, firewall, and endpoint logs to reconstruct incident timelines more accurately.
- Comply with data retention mandates: Store log data securely for extended durations and generate scheduled reports to meet regulatory and audit requirements.
Critical VMware ESXi events monitored
Once integrated, Log360 begins capturing a broad set of log categories from VMware ESXi systems. These include:
- VMware system events: Monitor hardware failures, kernel warnings, and storage-related alerts that are vital for ensuring system health and uptime.
- VMware server events: Track modifications to network settings, resource pools, and storage assignments.
- Life cycle actions on VMs: Log360 records VM operations like suspend, reset, and resume, helping detect unauthorized use or operational misuse.
Addressing key VMware ESXi security challenges
| Security challenge |
How Log360 addresses it |
| Tracking VM sprawl and unauthorized provisioning |
Detects VM creation and deletion events, providing visibility into shadow IT or rogue VMs. |
| Identifying tampering within guest VMs |
Audits guest login activity to flag unexpected user access at the VM level. |
| Prioritizing investigation across high-change VMs |
Offers a Top VM Changes view to identify VMs with excessive or suspicious modifications. |
| Consolidating VM activity |
The VM Events Overview delivers a unified view of key operations across all VMs. |
| Difficulty correlating ESXi logs with other logs |
Correlates ESXi data with Windows, Linux, firewall, and AD logs for deeper investigation. |
The Log360 advantage
Log360 extends ESXi visibility with advanced capabilities such as:
- Incident Workbench: Map VM changes, host events, and user actions onto interactive timelines for faster root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
- UEBA: Leverage machine learning to detect unusual access behavior. UEBA highlights deviations in login times, access locations, or command usage, helping you spot compromised accounts or insider threats.
- Smart-threshold-based alerting: Instead of relying on static alert rules, Log360 uses machine learning to automatically determine what’s normal for your environment. It sets dynamic thresholds for ESXi event types, such as login attempts or VM changes, and triggers alerts only when activity deviates from established baselines.
