Log Collector Tool for Servers
Access logs in one place with a log collector
Collect logs from multiple systems with a log collector
The many devices and systems making up your network are constantly producing log data for anything from basic performance insight to troubleshooting and root cause identification when problems arise. While it’s possible to try to make sense of all the data manually, you can save yourself the trouble—a log collector tool like SolarWinds® Log Analyzer is built to help you aggregate and organize logs and display them with a log viewer. Log Analyzer can help you aggregate logs from across your systems including syslogs, event logs, SNMP traps, and more.
View normalized log data in an interactive chart
To make sense of your collected log data, you first need it to be normalized. Since your devices and systems can generate different types of logs, it can be difficult to compare all your log data even if it’s been aggregated by a log collector tool.
SolarWinds Log Analyzer can help you deal with this problem by normalizing your log data, so it’s in a single, intelligible format. The tool can also present the data in an interactive chart that lets you search through logs, visualize volume, and refine the timeframes of your collected log data to help give you a clearer image of your network performance.
Find the logs you need with advanced filters and a powerful search engine
Your network systems and devices produce a huge amount of log data. Even once it’s collected by a log collector tool, you still need some way to narrow the data to find what you’re looking for when troubleshooting a problem or optimizing performance.
SolarWinds Log Analyzer comes with a powerful search engine and intuitive, out-of-the-box filters designed to make it easier for you to find the logs you’re looking for, whether you have a specific file in mind or you’re looking for logs that could help you troubleshoot a problem.
Export data from collected logs for faster troubleshooting
While it’s great to have your logs collected and aggregated within your log collector tool, sometimes you need to share information about your logs and search results outside of the solution.
With SolarWinds Log Analyzer, it’s built to be easier to filter and export your search results to a CSV file. You can use those CSV files to share your search results with members of your team, attach results to a help ticket, or even archive the results for your historical records. Each record you export can include the date, time, IP address, severity level, node, message, and source.
Put collected logs in context with the Orion Platform
Your logs can be an incredibly useful tool on their own for troubleshooting and performance optimization, but they can be even more powerful when they’re viewed alongside other network information, including performance metrics.
Since SolarWinds Log Analyzer can be integrated with the SolarWinds Orion® Platform, you can see Log Analyzer data alongside other SolarWinds tool insights to gain a deeper understanding into your network and system performance through a centralized dashboard.
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Do you find yourself asking…
A log collector is a tool that aggregates the logs from different sources across your system, normalizes them, and offers a way to view the logs more easily. While logs are a critical part of your system and integral to everything from troubleshooting problems to optimizing network and device performance, they can be difficult to understand without a log file collector to help make them usable. The goal of a log collector tool is to help automate and streamline the manual log management process.
Your system is constantly generating a huge amount of log information, whether it’s in the form of SNMP traps, syslogs, or Windows event logs. This data can offer crucial insights, but only if you know how to make sense of it. That’s where a log file collector comes in.
The best log collector works as a syslog collector, event log collector, Windows log collector, and more all in one. It combines log data from across your network and systems, including from devices, applications, services, and hosts. The log collector then gives you a single place where you can access these logs, which serve as records of the events that have occurred within your applications and infrastructure over time. More importantly, with an all in one log file collector, the data from those various sources can be normalized, so your log data is in a single, easy-to-read format. This helps make it easier not only to read the logs in the first place, but to understand how logs from different sources relate to each other, which can be critically important when it comes to troubleshooting problems.
Without a log collector tool, you run the risk of not detecting potential problems within your system until they’ve already had a major impact. Also, without a tool to collect logs and troubleshoot issues proactively, you may only be made aware of problems once end users are already affected.
A log collector is a tool that aggregates the logs from different sources across your system, normalizes them, and offers a way to view the logs more easily. While logs are a critical part of your system and integral to everything from troubleshooting problems to optimizing network and device performance, they can be difficult to understand without a log file collector to help make them usable. The goal of a log collector tool is to help automate and streamline the manual log management process.
Your system is constantly generating a huge amount of log information, whether it’s in the form of SNMP traps, syslogs, or Windows event logs. This data can offer crucial insights, but only if you know how to make sense of it. That’s where a log file collector comes in.
The best log collector works as a syslog collector, event log collector, Windows log collector, and more all in one. It combines log data from across your network and systems, including from devices, applications, services, and hosts. The log collector then gives you a single place where you can access these logs, which serve as records of the events that have occurred within your applications and infrastructure over time. More importantly, with an all in one log file collector, the data from those various sources can be normalized, so your log data is in a single, easy-to-read format. This helps make it easier not only to read the logs in the first place, but to understand how logs from different sources relate to each other, which can be critically important when it comes to troubleshooting problems.
Without a log collector tool, you run the risk of not detecting potential problems within your system until they’ve already had a major impact. Also, without a tool to collect logs and troubleshoot issues proactively, you may only be made aware of problems once end users are already affected.
Unite logs from across your system using a log collector
Log Analyzer
- Collect and normalize logs from multiple sources.
- Filter logs to find the information you’re looking for faster.
- Integrate log data with performance metrics.
