Best Log Analysis Softwares

Alert Logic Log Analysis Software with ActiveWatch is a security-as-a-service -based solution that helps enterprises to meet the compliance requirements and detect security issues across complex IT infrastructures. The platform collects, processes, and analyzes the logs across on-premises as well as cloud. The company uses various technologies while developing the log manager solution, such as event correlation, analysis and reporting, compliance support, and SaaS. The log management portfolio helps organizations to scale their businesses to particular business needs, and offers in-depth security from advanced vulnerabilities and security breaches. Alert Logic is highly focused on its R&D investments, which help in creating innovative and enhanced solutions and services in the log management market.

AlienVault offers a huge set of softwares, such as vulnerability management, threat detection, behavioral monitoring, log analysis software, compliance management, and security intelligence. The company provides log management solutions across on-premises as well as cloud, including log management for AWS and log management for Microsoft Azure. Automated log analysis and management in AlienVault USM offers threat detection and protection across various IT platforms. The company launches advanced log management offerings to meet the customer requirements. Recently, in 2017, it launched the USM platform to provide effective threat detection, incident response, and compliance management across on-premises as well as cloud environment. In 2015, AlientVault launched the enhanced Open Threat Exchange (OTX) to offer better threat intelligence capabilities across networks. In addition, it enhanced its USM platform to help enterprises secure their IT infrastructure, thus expanding the regulatory and compliance requirements. AlienVault delivers a strong log analysis service for the IT security, which provides a strong event management across enterprise cloud and on-premises.

BlackStratus offers log management offerings through its robust platform, called LOGStorm. The platform detects and defends against sophisticated threats across enterprises by simplifying compliance requirements and enhancing security. It is a powerful and flexible log management solution that provides in-depth and real-time visibility of events and logs. The various features of the solutions include real-time incident identification, automated correlation technology, centralized event logging management and storage, vulnerability data correlation, zero-day attack identification, in-depth incident summaries, security and compliance reports, and extensive device support. BlackStratus focuses on the strategies of product enhancements and new products launches. In 2016, it launched the first SIEM platform, called CYBERShark to monitor security events and manage compliance requirements across enterprises.

In log management, the company provides IBM QRadar log manager suite, which collects, preserves, and reports network security log events to help enterprises to safeguard their IT infrastructure from sophisticated cyber-attacks, insider attacks, and advanced security breaches. IBM also offers intelligent log management for the cloud environment.

The company's McAfee Enterprise Log Analysis Software offers comprehensive log collection and management capabilities with a flexible storage. It improves security investigations and incident responses, and automates the event management system. It also helps to meet the compliance requirements. The company is expanding its product portfolio by launching new products.

Loggly provides enterprise-class log analysis softwares, which offer various capabilities, such as proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, data analysis and optimization, and team collection and integration. The platform helps enterprises in real-time monitoring of logs and events across small as well as large enterprises. The company is continuously focusing on developing and enhancing new products. In 2016, it launched a new log analysis technology tool, Gamut Search, to instantly respond to massive data volumes across the enterprise IT environment. In addition, it integrated the Atlassian JIRA Software to its cloud-based log management solution to further improve its log management capabilities. In 2015, Loggly enhanced its log management platform to provide intelligence and structure to automatically monitor the logs for one-click navigation.

LogRhythm Log Analysis Software has a wide product portfolio in next-generation security intelligence, log management, network forensics, endpoint monitoring, and analytics solutions. The company's next-generation log management platform collects, stores the logs, analyzes the events, and performs faster threat detection by advanced visualizations. The LogRhythm platform provides various features, such as high-performance processing, faster indexing, flexible search interface, efficient data management, real-time high availability, and easy expansion. Effective organic growth strategy has put LogRhythm in a leading position in the log management market. For instance, in 2016, the company launched a new security intelligence and analytics platform, LogRhythm 7.2, which offered more efficient and powerful threat management capabilities.

Rapid 7 offers a cloud-based log analysis software, that helps to manage log events and used to achieve regulatory compliances. The solution offers various functionalities like searching, visualizing, analyzing, and real time reporting of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured log data. In terms of User Interface (UI) the solution is less user-friendly. Furthermore, the solution offers only a single log based response at a time. The company launching new products to boost its portfolio in log management market. For instance, recently in 2017, Rapid7 launched two new solutions namely, InsightVM, for vulnerability management and InsightAppSec, for application security testing. These new offerings provided an effective vulnerability management, user behavior analytics, and IT log analytics to its customers. In 2016, it announced a launch of a new IT operation solution, InsightOps with the integration of endpoint visibility and log analytics capabilities to provide IT professionals with the continuous operational visibility. Furthermore, in 2015, Logentries (a part of Rapid7) enhanced its SIEM platform to provide a complete set of logging, auditing, and monitoring capabilities in an easy-to-use, affordable service to the enterprise.

Logsene is a cost-effective log management and analytics tool, provided by Sematext, which helps users to access their logs in one place. It provides alerts for each generated query, can store queries as saved searches, displays log charts for saved searches at a glance, works with all standard logging facilities, and offers support for various programming languages and their logging libraries. Importantly, Logsene exposes the popular Elasticsearch API, lending itself to a wide range of integrations with data ingestion tools, as well as data visualization and BI tools, such as Kibana, Grafana, and Zoomdata. Logsene itself includes a fully integrated Kibana interface, thus enabling not only log search for DevOps teams, but also easy analytics, charts, dashboards, and report generation for businesses. The platform runs on AWS infrastructure and follows a number of compliance standards, such as SOC 1/SSAE, SOC 2, SOC 3, 16/ISAE 3402, FISMA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, and HIPAA. The company's Logagent is an advanced, open source, and lightweight log shipper platform, which offers secure transport and bulk indexing to Elasticsearch and Logsene. The platform is full of various comprehensive capabilities, such as easy installation, suitable for edge servers, IoT devices, sensors, built-in Elasticsearch, secure and reliable data transfer, and support for on-premises as well as cloud environment. The company focuses on continuous enhancement in its product portfolio to offer better security for the enterprise IT infrastructure. For instance, in 2016, it launched a new solution called Logagent, which identifies log formats automatically using the built-in pattern definition. It also created Sematext Docker Agent, which lets Sematext customers easily collect all their Docker operational intelligence with one easy-to-use tool. Sematext provides customer support in the form of various professional services. The powerful and flexible log management solutions provide in-depth and real-time visibility of events and logs.

SolarWinds offers a comprehensive log analysis software and event manager platform that provides various features, such as fast compliance reporting, advanced search and forensic analysis, file integrity monitoring, and real-time event correlation. The platform identifies the malicious activities, defends against the sophisticated cyber threats, and improves the overall security concerns within the organizations. The company focuses on launching new products to boost the overall log management offerings. In 2015, it launched SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 10.0. to help clients improve the performance of corporate, cloud, and SaaS applications. SolarWinds has a large customer base across various verticals. The company has a strong R&D cell that develops innovative solutions. It has highly connected distribution channels across the globe. However, the company has been witnessing a reduction in revenues across businesses, which in turn is affecting the total revenue.

Splunk Inc. has been known for making one of the best log analysis software  that can help a different kind of businesses. The analysis is done in a drill-down way which provides minute details about the log, and ad-hoc searches can also be utilised. It is quite simple to use the platform, and along with it, the user will be able to know about specific things and follow the trends or check for anomalies in no time. 

Veriato Log Manager is a comprehensive event and security log analysis software. It is formally called as SpectorSoft Log Manager, which provides powerful reporting and consolidation tools for log files. The platform delivers various powerful features, such as event logs, security events, consolidation, filtering, text log monitoring, alerts, actions, and automatic report generation. Launching innovative products is the strategy followed by the company to boost its set of offerings. Recently, in 2017, Veriato launched 2 solutions, namely, Veriato Recon and Veriato 360 to help organizations to easily detect and respond against advanced insider threats. In addition, it launched RansomSafe solution to better detect and protect the IT infrastructure from ransomwares. In 2015, the company unveiled a new Server and Application Monitoring (SAM) solution, which helped clients to manage and monitor mail, web, databases, and FTP servers. Veriato is one of the leading providers of cutting-edge technology solutions, offering the most comprehensive log manager portfolio. The company focuses on integrating its security platforms with its efficient security solutions to provide complete security solutions to its customers.