Server Log Management and Analysis
Reliable and efficient server log management software
Run reports on server log files to prove compliance
Server log management can help you analyze internal security policies and demonstrate compliance with industry auditors. That’s why SolarWinds® Security Event Manager’s (SEM) server log management tool was built to generate over 200 standard and industry-specific reports, designed to help your team make better decisions about your organization's security practices.
Standard reports in SolarWinds SEM can be used to gather information on specific server events during a particular time period, while industry reports (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and more) can be generated to help your organization demonstrate compliance with industry auditors.
Users can also create custom reports on an ad hoc basis or save their favorite reports to the dashboard. Additionally, server log reports can be scheduled at a time of your choosing or be generated on-demand as needed.
Powerful server log analysis correlation
With SEM, users can decide which IT infrastructure components they want to monitor by selecting the proper agent and non-agent devices.
For server logs, simply select the server you want to monitor, and configure the agent to send server log events right to SEM. Since you can select multiple agents and non-agent devices, server logs can be parsed and viewed alongside other log data from your network, including logs from domain controllers, workstations, firewalls, routers, and switches.
With SEM closely tracking real-time changes in log data, you can define custom thresholds to trigger automated alerts or initiate automated responses like shutting down hazardous processes.
Robust server log analysis tools
Since logs are generated at a near-constant rate, keeping track of them all can be a serious challenge—but SEM is designed to make it easy to get the server log insights you need. Users can configure SEM to track server logs on the systems in their network to track errors, monitor events in real time, and more easily identify security threats before an incident occurs.
The SEM agent service is also built to collect and normalize server log data before sending to the SEM Manager using SSL/TLS encryptions and compression, which provides many benefits including helping ensure data integrity, minimizing bandwidth usage, and more.
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Do you find yourself asking…
Server log management is the process of collecting, aggregating, centralizing, and analyzing log data from your network servers. Server logs are generated and stored automatically by your server over time. When these events occur, your server will add a line to its log. Usually, these logs are generated in the form of text files, and they hold tons of valuable information about the health and performance of your organization’s servers.
However, since these logs are stored in the form of unfiltered files, it can be hard to turn the raw data into actionable information, especially when it’s generated in large volumes around the clock. Server log management includes collecting and organizing server logs, so they can be viewed, monitored, and analyzed with ease.
Server log management is the process of collecting, aggregating, centralizing, and analyzing log data from your network servers. Server logs are generated and stored automatically by your server over time. When these events occur, your server will add a line to its log. Usually, these logs are generated in the form of text files, and they hold tons of valuable information about the health and performance of your organization’s servers.
However, since these logs are stored in the form of unfiltered files, it can be hard to turn the raw data into actionable information, especially when it’s generated in large volumes around the clock. Server log management includes collecting and organizing server logs, so they can be viewed, monitored, and analyzed with ease.
Server log management software to optimize your security
Security Event Manager
- Generate industry, standard, or custom reports.
- Monitor server log events around the clock to improve security practices.
- Correlate server logs alongside other log data for a holistic network view.
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