Security Log Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of security logs and security data – including access logs, audit logs, application logs, log files, event logs, service logs, and system logs on Windows servers, Linux servers, and Unix servers. Nagios is capable of managing and monitoring security logs, system logs, application logs, log files, and syslog data, and alerting you when a log pattern is detected.

Benefits

Implementing effective security log monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased security
• Increased awareness of network infrastructure problems
• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures
• Fast detection of failed processes, services, cron jobs, and batch jobs
• Audit compliance
• Regulatory compliance

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide security log monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios Log Server

See Also

• Audit Log Monitoring
• Access Log Monitoring
• Log Monitoring
• Application Log Monitoring
• System Log Monitoring
• Linux Log Monitoring
• Unix Log Monitoring
• Windows Event Log Monitoring