It can collect logs from files in various formats, receive logs from the network remotely over UDP, TCP or TLS/SSL on all supported platforms. It supports platform specific sources such as the Windows Eventlog, Linux kernel logs, Android device logs, local syslog etc. Writing and reading logs to/from databases is also supported for many database servers. The collected logs can be stored into files, databases or forwarded to a remote log server using various protocols.

A key concept in nxlog is to be able to handle and preserve structured logs so there is no need to convert everything to syslog and then parse these logs again at the other side. It has powerful message filtering, log rewrite and conversion capabilities.

Using a lightweight, modular and multithreaded architecture which can scale, NXLog can process hundreds of thousands of events per second.

Here is a short summary of its features:

  • Open source
  • Multi-platform - support for GNU/Linux, IBM AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD, Android and Microsoft Windows (from XP through 2012)
  • Modular architecture through dynamically loadable plugins
  • Scalable, high-performance I/O - collect messages at blazing speeds (can achieve above 500k EPS)
  • Message buffering and prioritization - no lost or dropped messages
  • Simple configuration format with a powerful language similar to Perl
  • Scheduled tasks and built-in log rotation
  • Support for different formats such as Syslog, CSV, GELF, JSON, XML, Windows EventLog and even custom formats
  • Offline processing mode for post processing, conversion or transfer
  • Event classification and pattern matching
  • Log message rewrite, conversion between different formats
  • Event correlation
  • Secure network transport over SSL
  • Internationalization for supporting different character sets and on the fly auto-detection of encoding

To join the NXLog Community - click here to download the agents, the agents can be downloaded with no license cost or limitations. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.