A comparative study of network based system log management tools

Author

Aeri, Amit ; Tukadiya, Shyam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Nat. Technol. Inst., Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Nowadays numerous log management tools are available in the market to analyze, report and manage data. To find out the best log management tool it has to be still determined. Firstly we will discuss about log, Log is a detailed information of any application, user activity and system performance. These days organization invest in log management tool to keep an eye on the network as it can track down any activity ongoing in the network. In this research paper five different log management tools have been looked at with a view to determine the features and to rank them in various metrics. As conducting our research we came to know that Kiwi syslog comes with more metrics requirement. So as per our research Kiwi sys log server is the best log management tool.

Keywords

computer network management; computer network performance evaluation; data analysis; network servers; system monitoring; Kiwi sys log server; data analysis; data management; data reporting; metrics requirement; network based system log management tools; system performance; user activity; Electronic mail; Monitoring; Operating systems; Organizations; Security; Servers; Graphical report; Log Analyse; Log Management; Network Monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCI.2015.7218075

Filename

7218075