Nagios Log Server - Jesse Olson: Nagios Log Server Architecture | Nagios Con 2015

This presentation will provide a high-level introduction to Nagios Log Server. Nagios Log Server is a commercial grade log monitoring solution from Nagios Enterprises. View, Sort, and Manage all your Log Data on your infrastructure.

The Nagios World Conference 2015 took place in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.

The Nagios World Conference is ideal for individuals and organizations that are looking to deploy or enhance a Nagios monitoring solution in their environment, or increase their knowledge of Nagios and its extensive suite of addons

Log Server is a powerful enterprise-class log monitoring and management application that allows organizations to quickly and easily view, sort, and configure logs from any source on any given network. Log Server is designed to analyze, collect, and store log data based on custom specifications, and provide users with extended insight into the data on their network’s infrastructure

Ease of Use
Nagios Log Server greatly simplifies the process of searching your log data. Set up alerts to notify you when potential threats arise, or simply query your log data to quickly audit any system. With Log Server, you get all of your log data in one location, with high availability and fail-over built right in. Quickly configure your servers to send all log data with easy source setup wizards and start monitoring your logs in minutes.

Infinite Scalability
Log Server can scale to meet the needs of your entire IT infrastructure, so as your organization grows you can easily add additional Log Server Instances to your monitoring cluster. This allows you to quickly add more power, speed, storage, and reliability to your overall log analysis platform. Nagios Log Server is designed for organizations of any size and can adapt with the click of a button.

Your Data in Real Time
Easily correlate log events across all servers in a few clicks. Log Server allows you to view log data in real-time, providing the ability to quickly analyze and solve problems as they occur. This keeps your organization safe, secure, and running smoothly.

Adaptability
Nagios Log Server has a fully accessible API allowing for complete integration to fit the needs of your external applications. Log Server easily integrates with third-party solutions or your current infrastructure.

Network Security
Log Server is a premier solution that’s perfectly designed for security and network auditing. Easily create alerts from the web-interface based on queries and thresholds most important to you. Notify users via Nagios XI / Nagios Core, email, SNMP traps, Nagios Reactor Event Chains or execute a script to ensure quick problem resolution. Log Server lets you dive into the issue to help you find a solution. Additionally, Log Server can keep historical archives of all events should a security audit be needed, keeping your organization in compliance with security requirements.

Advanced User Management
Multi-user capabilities allow IT teams to work together efficiently. Admins can add, modify, and remove users, as well as set access permissions. Admins can also grant specified users access to the external API via an access key.

Customized Dashboards
A powerful GUI provides for customization of layout, design, and preferences on a per-user basis, giving your customers and team members the flexibility they want. Users can create custom dashboards in the web-interface to see quick views of data most important to them. Users can also easily share dashboards with a custom URL to enhance team collaboration.

Network Insights
Nagios Log Server provides users with advanced awareness of their infrastructure. Dive deep into network events, logs, and security events. Use Log Server to provide the evidence necessary to track down security threats, and quickly resolve vulnerabilities with built-in alerts and notifications.