IT managers and system and network administrators face a daunting task when trying to manage a large business infrastructure consisting of countless moving parts. Few tasks can be more frustrating than trying to determine the state of the system when an unusual event occurs. Poring over logs can sometimes reveal information, sometimes not. Even when information is revealed, it tends to be a clue to the next stage in the data hunt, rather than an illumination of the root cause.
NitroSecurity's NitroView ESM and ELM solution -- tops among the seven leading log managers we reviewed -- make log analysis in real time a far easier job. NitroView ESM and ELM excel at collecting and rolling up event data for display in remarkably flexible and configurable dashboards. There, patterns and exceptions can be spotted visually in graphs or in ordered data presentation. Immediate drill-down to low levels of detail allows a user to follow breadcrumbs easily across data sources. NitroView supports 325 different data sources out of the box, so it's truly enterprise capable -- an aspect that is bolstered by its capacity to process millions of event records quickly.
