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    Top Answer:For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior.
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    Top Answer:The pricing is in the middle. I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with one being expensive and ten being cheap.
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    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in terms of observability. Additionally, a possible new feature could be Kafka integration.
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    Fortra
    One Identity
    Overview

    Tripwire Log Center is a comprehensive log management tool that enables users to track, analyze, and monitor log data for security and compliance purposes. 

    With real-time monitoring, customizable alerting, and a user-friendly interface, users can efficiently detect and respond to security threats. The platform's guided questions also help improve collaboration and decision-making within organizations.

    Optimizing SIEM
    syslog-ng is the log management solution that improves the performance of your SIEM solution by reducing the amount and improving the quality of data feeding your SIEM.

    Rapid search and troubleshooting
    With syslog-ng Store Box, you can find the answer. Search billions of logs in seconds using full text queries with Boolean operators to pinpoint critical logs.

    Meeting compliance requirements
    syslog-ng Store Box provides secure, tamper-proof storage and custom reporting to demonstrate compliance.

    Big data ingestion
    syslog-ng can deliver data from a wide variety of sources to Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Kafka as well as many others.

    Universal log collection and routing
    syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management.

    Secure data archive
    syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.

    Sample Customers
    1. Aetna 2. Adobe 3. ADP 4. Airbus 5. Amazon 6. American Express 7. Aon 8. ATT 9. Bank of America 10. Barclays 11. BASF 12. Bayer 13. Bechtel 14. Boeing 15. BNP Paribas 16. Cisco 17. CocaCola 18. Comcast 19. Dell 20. Deutsche Bank 21. Eni 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. GE 25. Google 26. HP 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. JPMorgan Chase 30. Kelloggs 31. Lockheed Martin 32. McDonald's
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Fortra's Tripwire Log Center is ranked 61st in Log Management while syslog-ng is ranked 17th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Fortra's Tripwire Log Center is rated 0.0, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Fortra's Tripwire Log Center is most compared with Elastic Security and Wazuh, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog, Grafana Loki, Logstash and Elastic Security.

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