VMware vCenter monitoring with Log360

VMware vCenter acts as the central control point for your virtual infrastructure—but with that centralization comes risk. Any unnoticed change to roles, datastores, or permissions can have wide reaching security consequences. Log360 provides deep visibility into vCenter activity by capturing and analyzing logs in real time. It helps you track administrative actions, audit configuration changes, and detect threats before they escalate.

Auditing and monitoring capabilities

Log360 helps you continuously audit your vCenter environment by focusing on user behavior, privilege usage, and administrative operations.

• Audit access to the vCenter control plane Track every successful and failed logon or logoff to detect unauthorized administrative access or abuse of shared credentials.
• Monitor changes to user roles and privileges Identify when new roles are created, deleted, or modified and when permissions are granted, revoked, or altered.
• Track folder-level structuring and reorganization Changes to folders may signal operational shifts or cleanup attempts. Auditing them helps maintain transparency in VM operations.
• Centralize visibility across multiple vCenter servers Quickly onboard vCenters via the UI and manage them from a single console to streamline log collection and oversight.

Critical VMware vCenter events monitored

Log360 collects and categorizes key vCenter events, each tied to a specific operational or security context. Below are the events monitored along with what each helps detect:

• Cluster changes: Tracks additions or modifications to host clusters, which is useful for understanding changes to compute resources.
• Datastore changes: Detects updates to storage definitions, helping spot unauthorized or misconfigured storage allocations.
• Folder changes: Captures creation, deletion, or movement of folders, supporting VM inventory tracking.
• Permission changes: Alerts when user or group permissions are modified, which can be a key indicator of privilege escalation.
• Resource pool changes: Monitors when resource pools are edited or reassigned, which can affect workload distribution.
• Role changes: Tracks creation and modification of roles to ensure no excessive privileges are introduced.
• VM changes: Detects updates to VM properties like memory, CPU, or host migration.
• Device changes: Logs additions and removals of virtual hardware components such as NICs or disks.

These logs help security and infrastructure teams stay informed, proactive, and audit-ready.

Addressing key vCenter security challenges