Cisco Meraki Firewall Log monitoring

Cisco Meraki router, switch, firewall, and VPN log monitoring

Monitoring the logs of your Cisco Meraki devices, including their firewalls, routers, switches, and VPNs, are essential to ensure network perimeter security. Aggregating, managing, and monitoring logs from these Cisco Meraki devices provides valuable insights into network activity, security threats, and performance issues.

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, a comprehensive log management and IT compliance solution, centralizes the collection, analysis, monitoring, and correlation of Cisco Meraki device logs, helping you troubleshoot network issues, identify potential security threats, and comply with regulatory mandates.

Why Cisco Meraki Firewall Log monitoring is essential

Monitoring Cisco Meraki Firewall Logs helps with:

Compliance and auditing:

Ensure compliance with industry standards like the PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR by securely archiving log data. Provide detailed logs for user audits and investigations.

Security incident detection and response:

• Threat identification: Quickly identify potential security threats like intrusion attempts, unauthorized access attempts, malware infections, or DDoS attacks.
• Incident investigation: Monitor and analyze Cisco Meraki firewall logs to pinpoint the root cause of security incidents, such as malicious IP address communication or compromised accounts.
• Forensics: Gather and store evidence for compliance and legal purposes by reviewing detailed log data.

Network performance monitoring:

Analyze the traffic and bandwidth to forecast future network needs based on historical usage data. Detect performance bottlenecks, like slowdowns or congestion points in the network, and quickly identify and troubleshoot network issues.

Why EventLog Analyzer is the best Meraki Firewall Log monitoring tool

1. Custom log retention: EventLog Analyzer lets you set appropriate and custom retention policies to balance storage needs and historical data requirements.
2. Built-in dashboards and reports: Leverage EventLog Analyzer's out-of-the-box reports on Meraki firewall rule changes, user login audits, and more reporting features to analyze logs and generate insights.
3. Custom alerts: Apart from the predefined alerts for unauthorized firewall rule changes, abnormal firewall traffic, and traffic to malicious IP addresses, EventLog Analyzer also allows you to set up alerts for other critical events.
4. Regularly review and analyze logs: With periodic scheduling of reports and real-time alerts available right out of the box, EventLog Analyzer lets you continuously monitor logs for anomalies and potential threats.

By effectively monitoring Cisco Meraki firewall logs with EventLog Analyzer, you can enhance network security, improve performance, and maintain compliance with industry standards. Read on to know more specific use cases for Cisco Meraki Firewall Log monitoring using EventLog Analyzer.

EventLog Analyzer's Cisco Meraki Firewall Log monitoring capabilities

Automated Meraki log auditing

Automatically collect, analyze, and correlate Meraki Firewall Logs to get detailed insights into firewall allowed traffic, denied connections, abnormal traffic patterns. With visibility into the user logons, trends, and user audit trails, monitoring your Meraki Firewall Logs will help detect possible attacks and security threats.

User audit trail

Get insights into and monitor user logons and logoffs, user activity trends, and privileged user activities with intuitive dashboards and predefined reports. Get visibility into each user's activities in Meraki devices, especially with respect to firewall rule changes for effective rule management.

Meraki Firewall traffic monitoring

Monitor Meraki firewall allowed and denied traffic with predefined reports. Get insights on the web traffic and visualize it based on source, destination, protocol, ports, and trends to detect suspicious inbound or outbound traffic and abnormal traffic volume. With EventLog Analyzer, get alerted on traffic requests from or to a malicious IP using the threat intelligence feed integration.

Meraki VPN log monitoring

Gain visibility into VPN user activities, including user logons and logoffs, with extensive reports and dashboards. Visualize VPN accesses based on remote devices, users, and monitor VPN activity trends with predefined reports and dashboard widgets to effectively detect anomalies. Set up alerts for prolonged VPN sessions and suspicious VPN connections with predefined alert criteria. Detect VPN-based threats, such as user accesses from different locations simultaneously, using the solution's near real-time correlation.

With EventLog Analyzer, get insights into the recent Cisco VPN user status changes, VPN logons from remote hosts, VPN logon trends, account lockouts and unlocks using Meraki VPN, and more.

Meraki firewall IDS/IPS auditing

Monitor Meraki IDS/IPS events and detect possible attacks using the real-time event response engine of EventLog Analyzer. Gain insights into the top attack trends, devices that were targeted with attacks, attack signatures targeting your network, and more.

Meraki device monitoring

Monitor and analyze the system events of Meraki devices, including Cisco Meraki firewall, to get to know their performance and health. Gain insights into critical system events, including device shutdown due to temperature, power failures, clock updates, commands executed by admins, and more, using EventLog Analyzer's monitoring reports and dashboards.

Detecting Meraki firewall threats

Spot security threats such as SYN attack, routing table attack, and flood attack occurring in your Cisco Meraki firewalls and remediate them immediately using automated workflows. Additionally, get alerted on insider threat activities, such as suspicious firewall rule changes, abnormal rule changes followed by traffic from malicious IPs, and more, with the solution's near real-time correlation engine.

Suggested reading to enhance your Cisco Meraki monitoring

• Cisco router traffic monitoring
• Cisco Meraki user activity monitoring
• Cisco log analyzer
• How to check your Cisco switch logs
• How to analyze firewall allowed and denied traffic
• How to analyze firewall logs

EventLog Analyzer's log monitoring capabilities

VPN log monitoring  

Monitor Cisco, Fortinet, SonicWall, PaloAlto, Meraki, and other popular VPN logs to get insights into user activities, active VPN sessions, suspicious VPN logins, impossible location logins, and more using EventLog Analyzer's log monitoring and correlation capabilities.

Firewall rule management  

Monitor changes to your firewall rules through continuous auditing and monitoring of firewall logs. Get detailed insights into who changed your firewall policy, whether the change allows any malicious connection to your network, whether the rule allows traffic to any suspicious domains, and more with EventLog Analyzer's log correlation and threat intelligence capabilities.

Syslog monitoring  

EventLog Analyzer acts as a built-in syslog server to collect, analyze, correlate, search, and archive syslog data from Linux/Unix and other syslog devices in a central location. The solution provides detailed user activity insights, system abnormalities, operational issues, and an option to quickly troubleshoot them with predefined alerts and dashboards.