Native Integrations

SonicWall log monitoring with Log360

Overview

ManageEngine Log360 seamlessly integrates with SonicWall firewalls to centralize and analyze logs across your network perimeter. By collecting and correlating logs from SonicWall devices—including traffic, security, configuration, and user activity logs—Log360 enables effective threat detection, compliance auditing, firewall rule tracking, and operational insights.

This integration provides real-time visibility into firewall activity, identifies anomalies and attacks, audits firewall changes, and simplifies compliance—all within Log360’s unified SIEM and security platform.

How Log360 collects and analyzes SonicWall logs

Log360 collects logs from SonicWall firewalls allowing scalable deployment across single or multi-location environments. Once ingested, logs are parsed, indexed, and analyzed with predefined correlation rules, behavioral analytics, and alerting mechanisms.

Collection methods

Syslog forwarding: Configures your SonicWall appliance to send logs to Log360's built-in syslog listener over UDP or TCP using standard syslog protocols (RFC 3164 or RFC 5424) on ports 514 (default UDP) or 513 (custom TCP/UDP, if configured). This enables secure and scalable log collection across single-site or multi-location deployments.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 monitors a wide range of SonicWall log types to provide full-spectrum firewall visibility into:

Traffic logs: Capture source/destination IPs, port/protocol activity, allowed/denied traffic, top applications, and bandwidth usage.
Security logs: Detect intrusion attempts, virus/malware outbreaks, DoS attacks, and botnet communications.
User activity logs: Monitor user logins, VPN sessions, login failures, policy violations, and suspicious authentication attempts.
Configuration and policy logs: Track rule modifications, Network Address Translation (NAT) and firewall policy changes, object group edits, and admin activities.
System logs: Audit critical hardware and system-level events such as fan status alerts, clock updates, voltage thresholds, thermal warnings, interface status changes, and SonicPoint events, such as SonicWall firewall logon and attack reports, ensuring comprehensive visibility into the operational health of your SonicWall devices.

Critical SonicWall events monitored

Log360 tracks and provides insights into critical events, including:

Firewall rule changes: Rule creations, deletions, and modifications
Traffic anomalies: Denied connections, port scans, suspicious traffic patterns
Intrusion detections: Intrusion prevention system (IPS) and intrusion detection systems (IDS) alerts for detected attacks.
VPN activity: VPN session establishment and termination, failed VPN login attempts, and remote access patterns.
Administrator activity: Admin login/logout events, privilege escalations, and policy modifications.
Malware and threat detections: Virus, worm, and malware detections; and blockedmmalicious content.
System and device health: Interface errors, system status changes, fan failures, clock updates, voltage fluctuations, and temperature status to ensure the operational reliability of your SonicWall devices.

Key benefits of integrating SonicWall with Log360

Log360 delivers significant benefits for organizations monitoring SonicWall environments, including:

Unified log management: Aggregate and analyze SonicWall logs alongside logs from Windows, Linux, cloud platforms, and databases.
Real-time threat detection: Identify policy violations, unauthorized access, and malware activity through predefined and custom alerts.
Firewall change tracking: Monitor all configuration changes and associate them with users to ensure accountability and reduce misconfigurations.
User and VPN activity auditing: Gain insights into user behavior, detect unusual login patterns, and monitor remote access attempts.
Advanced analytics: Use correlation and UEBA to detect stealthy attacks that span firewall, endpoint, and user activity.

Addressing SonicWall security and compliance use cases

Log360 effectively resolves common challenges faced in SonicWall security and compliance. Here's how:

Challenges	How Log360 helps
Tracking firewall rule changes	Monitors and records all firewall configuration changes in SonicWall—including rule additions, deletions, and modifications. Each change is timestamped and linked to the user who initiated it, ensuring accountability and supporting configuration drift detection.
Detecting network-based threats	Correlates SonicWall traffic logs with IDS/IPS events to detect potential threats such as port scans, DoS attacks, brute-force attempts, and malicious IP communications. Provides real-time alerts and visualizations to aid in threat triage and response.
Monitoring VPN and remote access	Tracks successful and failed VPN logins, access origin (IP and geolocation), and duration of remote sessions. Detects anomalies such as logins from unusual locations, outside business hours, or repeated failed attempts. Helps ensure secure remote access compliance.
Preventing insider threats	Audits privileged user actions, such as unauthorized rule changes, suspicious login behavior, or excessive failed access attempts. Behavioral baselines and risk scoring via UEBA help detect misuse or compromise of admin credentials.
Simplifying compliance	Provides out-of-the-box compliance report templates for PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, the GDPR, and more, using SonicWall log data. Reports include rule audits, access logs, security events, and configuration changes—helping satisfy audit requirements with minimal effort.

The Log360 advantage for SonicWall

While deep SonicWall log analysis is core to this integration, Log360 extends the value through its unified SIEM approach:

Cross-platform correlation: Easily link SonicWall events with Active Directory, endpoints, and cloud logs for deeper context.
UEBA: Efficiently detect deviations in normal user or entity behavior tied to firewall activity.
Threat intelligence integration: Match SonicWall logs with global threat feeds to detect communications with malicious IPs and domains.
Centralized platform: View firewall, server, user, and application logs in a single pane for efficient monitoring and response.

Explore SonicWall use cases

Want to see real-world scenarios? Discover how Log360 helps secure your SonicWall environment against misconfigurations, remote access threats, and firewall rule violations.