Description
High performance, enterprise-class log management appliance
syslog-ng Store Box, a turnkey appliance to manage your log data.
Key features
Collect and index
The syslog-ng Store Box’s indexing engine is optimized for performance. Depending on its exact configuration, one syslog-ng Store Box can collect and index up to 100,000 messages per second for sustained periods. When deployed in a client-relay configuration, a single SSB can collect logs from tens of thousands of log sources
Search and report
With full-text search, you can search through billions of logs in seconds via the web-based user interface. Wildcards and boolean operators allow you to perform complex searches and drill down on the results. Users can easily create customized reports from the charts and statistics they create on the search interface to demonstrate compliance with standards and regulations such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOX and HIPAA.
Store and forward
You can store large amounts of log data, create automated retention policies, and backup data to remote servers. The largest appliance can store up to 10 terabytes of uncompressed data. You can also forward logs to 3rd party analysis tools or fetch data from syslog-ng Store Box via its REST API.
Secure log data
Log data frequently contains sensitive information. SSB can store log data in encrypted, compressed, and time-stamped binary files restricting access to authorized personnel only. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting settings can restrict access to the SSB configuration and stored logs based on usergroup privileges and can be integrated with LDAP and Radius databases.
Additional Features
Parse key-value pairs
syslog-ng Store Box can separate a message consisting of whitespace or comma-separated key-value pairs (for example firewall logs) into name-value pairs.
Normalize with PatternDB
The syslog-ng application can compare the contents of the log messages to a database of predefined message patterns.
Real time classification
By comparing log messages to known patterns, syslog-ng is able to identify the exact type of the messages, and sort them into message classes. The message classes can be used to classify the type of the event described in the log message. The message classes can be customized, and, for example, can label the messages as user login, application crash, file transfer, etc.
Message Rate Alerting
SSB can be configured to send alerts based on the number of messages being received from sources. Minimum and maximum log message thresholds for specified time periods can be set to monitor the log management infrastructure for any performance issues.
Parse sudo log messages
Privileged user accounts represent the highest security risk, as they allow access to the most sensitive data and resources. The sudo parser enables you to enrich your log message data with details of privilege escalation events.
Extract important information
In addition to classifying messages, you can also add different tags which can be used later for filtering messages, for example, to collect messages tagged as user_login to a separate file or to perform conditional post processing on the tagged messages.
Real time event correlation
syslog-ng also makes real-time event correlation possible. This can be useful in many different situations. For example, important data for a single event is often scattered into multiple syslog messages. Also, login and logout events are often logged far away from each other, even in different log files, making log analysis difficult. Using correlation these can be collected into a single new message.
Cloud-ready
You can run your virtual SSB instances both in Amazon Web Services and in Microsoft Azure.