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Businesses rely heavily on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to host their webpages and web applications, and also to store their files. It's important that your IIS servers, both web and FTP, are properly protected. One way to constantly monitor your servers' well-being is by deploying a log management tool that can parse, index, and make full use of IIS' W3C Extended format logs.

EventLog Analyzer, our log management tool, can extract everything out of all the logs in your IT environment. After breaking down the IIS server logs, EventLog Analyzer creates reports to provide you with actionable data. When you're looking to pick out one particular report among the thousands available, the clearly-classified report groups make sure you know exactly where to look.

How EventLog Analyzer helps you make the most of IIS logs

Supports IIS' W3C log format

EventLog Analyzer supports over 750 log sources , including the W3C Extended format. The solution facilitates this by collecting, parsing, indexing, and analyzing logs from your IIS servers without any additional configuration. It also generates reports after parsing the IIS server logs to provide you with actionable insights. Collect and analyze universal logs of any type regardless of their source and format.

Supports IIS' W3C log format

Custom log parser

EventLog Analyzer's custom log parser automatically reads and extracts logs for unidentified fields to assist with log analysis. Even in unsupported or third-party app log formats, some basic fields are captured and you are given an option to add a new field if required. It recognizes and extracts the required fields from any raw log, regardless of the format. Use the default parsing capabilities for common fields and index the new fields using a custom log parser.

Custom log parser

Parses key fields by default

The IIS log parser extracts fields like client and server IP address; date and time of the event; server name and port number; client-server URI query and stem by default. If you want to extract a new field from a log, you can train the parser to look for and extract it. Simply enter the standard pattern that the field follows, and the parser will begin extracting the necessary information.

Parses key fields by default

Simplifies pattern creation

Don't spend time on manual pattern creation. EventLog Analyzer flexibly index logs using default fields or custom fields. It allows you to validate and edit the previously created patterns in no time. Automatically starts indexing and extracting the new field data when a pattern is generated the next time the same log type is imported. Patterns can be modified to index the new fields or to stop indexing the existing fields at anytime.

Simplifies pattern creation

Correlates events in real-time

Correl" title="Correlates events in real-time">powerful correlation engine. The solution contains 30 predefined correlation rules to efficiently identify known attack patterns within your IIS logs. Additionally, you can also customize and define correlation rules to create new attack rules. If any malicious activity is detected in your IIS log server, the incident management system raises security alerts to the security administrator.

Correlates events in real-time

Related solutions offered by EventLog Analyzer

Windows log management

Centrally manage event log data from Windows devices including workstations, servers, and terminal servers to meet auditing needs. Combat security attacks with real-time alerts and event correlation.

Syslog management

Collect and analyze Syslog data from routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, Linux/Unix servers, and more. Get in-depth reports for every security event. Receive real-time alerts for anomalies and breaches.

Privileged user monitoring

Monitor and track privileged user activities to meet PUMA requirements. Get out-of-the-box reports on critical activities such as logon failures, reason for logon failure, and more.

Threat intelligence

Get instant alerts when malicious IP sources interact with your network. EventLog Analyzer's contains threat intelligence from international threat feeds such as STIX, TAXII, and AlienVault OTX.

IT compliance management

Comply with the stringent requirements of regulatory mandates viz., PCI DSS, FISMA, HIPAA, and more with predefined reports & alerts. Customize existing reports or build new reports to meet internal security needs.

Log forensic analysis

Perform in-depth forensic analysis to backtrack attacks and identify the root cause of incidents. Save search queries as alert profile to mitigate future threats

5 reasons to choose EventLog Analyzer for IIS log parsing

1. Comprehensive log management

Centrally manage logs from over 750 log sources to view all the security log data of your network in a single console.

2. In-depth auditing and reporting

Audit every entity in your network and obtain a detailed overview on what's happening in the network in the form of intuitive dashboards and reports.

3. A powerful correlation engine

Detect network anomalies and trace security threats with a powerful correlation engine that holds over 30 predefined correlation rules and a drag-and-drop custom rule builder.

4. Automated incident management

Assign tickets in an external help desk console for critical security events to speed up incident resolution.

5. Augmented threat intelligence

Detect malicious IP addresses, URLs, or domain interactions with the built-in global IP threat intelligence database and STIX/TAXII feed processor.

Frequently asked questions

IIS log parser is a command-line tool that takes the SQL-like expression as input and outputs the data that matches the user's query. Log parser can be used to query the log files, XML files, CSV files, and all other major data sources in Windows OS like Event log, Active directory, the Registry, and the file system.

Log file parsing helps in splitting up the unstructured raw log data into chunks for easier log data storage, manipulation, and analysis. It helps you to uncover the trends and patterns of log events to gain actionable insights.

Manually analyzing and spotting the security incidents is both exhaustive and quite impossible to get meaningful information from millions of log data. IIS log parsing tool like EventLog Analyzer collects, parses, and presents a whole lot of log data in a centralized intuitive GUI dashboard that makes the IIS log analysis process smoother and easier.

Choose EventLog Analyzer for seamless parsing of Microsoft IIS logs.

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Customer Speaks

  • Credit Union of Denver has been using EventLog Analyzer for more than four years for our internal user activity monitoring. EventLog Analyzer provides great value as a network forensic tool and for regulatory due diligence. This product can rapidly be scaled to meet our dynamic business needs.
    Benjamin Shumaker
    Vice President of IT / ISO
    Credit Union of Denver
  • The best thing, I like about the application, is the well structured GUI and the automated reports. This is a great help for network engineers to monitor all the devices in a single dashboard. The canned reports are a clever piece of work.
    Joseph Graziano, MCSE CCA VCP
    Senior Network Engineer
    Citadel
  • EventLog Analyzer has been a good event log reporting and alerting solution for our information technology needs. It minimizes the amount of time we spent on filtering through event logs and provides almost near real-time notification of administratively defined alerts.
    Joseph E. Veretto
    Operations Review Specialist
    Office of Information System
    Florida Department of Transportation
  • Windows Event logs and device Syslogs are a real time synopsis of what is happening on a computer or network. EventLog Analyzer is an economical, functional and easy-to-utilize tool that allows me to know what is going on in the network by pushing alerts and reports, both in real time and scheduled. It is a premium software Intrusion Detection System application.
    Jim Lloyd
    Information Systems Manager
    First Mountain Bank

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