FREE Windows Syslog Server!

Logs can tell us all the stories of our networks. What's working, what's not, and when someone who isn't supposed to be there is. Sometimes we need to collect logs quickly and on the fly -- enter this FREE Windows Syslog Server! It's SUPER easy and organized!

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[tonyhall]

Excellent, thank you. Remember to open a port on the Windows server. The default protocol for sending syslog files is UDP with a default port of 514.

[jeffpaewai]

Just brilliant ! had it up and running before the end of the video. Thanks Willie

[caimer]

Windows Explorer shows 0 Kb because the file is open. If you open it, it will show the loggings :-)
Nice with another free tool!

[teqie]

Nice find - I think Draytek have had a free simple syslog server for Windows for a long time, not too sure how it compares to grandstream's or how vendor-agnostic it is. I also know Synology have syslog receiver built-in, as a longer-term logging option?

[PEDoers]

Nice opportunity Willie. You got my 'like'

[Practical-IT]

Great tool. I might have to set this up at my day job to play with.
From looking at the Grandstream page, it sounds like this was meant for their (presumably Unix/Linux-based) devices. Since it is a no-frills program, people aren't going to be able to pull Windows log files into this without some other helper program to do the conversion from the MS binary format. Unless I totally missed something here.

Thanks, as always for the video!

[jfkastner]

Syslog uses UDP so you will never see a "log send error" from whatever Device you are getting the logs from - so if you terminate the windows app the Grandstream will continue to send log entries but they will just go to waste

[ctnspvtltd]

howmany devices can this syslog server take..?

[kristopherleslie]

Willie isn’t Microsoft monitoring your traffic on edge 😮 heard it was an unintentional bug

[mouradbenahmeddaho]

from my side, only the time is shown, not all the logs !

[MadMike]

I have port forward setup to RDP into my computer. i think someone is hacking into that port. Do you know a way to view logging for anything hitting that port?

[janchivdorjtsedendamba]

Can this log server interwork with VRF_internet?

[kristopherleslie]

Less that 5 min done with your solution lol 1 hour later still trying to work on Graylog lol however haha.