Ingestion and retention costs keep climbing
Usage-based pricing can make normal growth, incident spikes, and longer retention expensive to predict.
Centralized log management
Centralize Your Logs Without Paying More as Volume Grows
Nagios Log Server brings logs from servers, applications, network devices, and cloud resources into one searchable platform—with self-hosted control, configurable retention, and no per-GB software fees.
Why teams start looking for a better log-management platform
The pain usually shows up in cost, investigation time, fragmented data, and the difficulty of keeping enough history to answer questions later.
Logs are scattered everywhere
Servers, applications, network devices, and cloud services produce evidence in different places and formats.
Troubleshooting takes too long
Incidents drag on when teams have to jump between systems instead of searching events in one place.
You need history after the incident
Security reviews, audits, forensics, and recurring problems often depend on logs that are still searchable weeks or months later.
Keep the data useful
Collect once. Search quickly. Keep the history your team needs.
Nagios Log Server centralizes Syslog, Windows Event Logs, flat files, application logs, and other structured or custom formats from on-premises and cloud environments.
OpenSearch-based indexing, dashboards, filtering, and alerting make the data searchable in near real time, while configurable retention, compression, and archiving let you control how long that history remains available.
- Centralize logs from servers, applications, network devices, and cloud resources
- Search, filter, correlate, and alert on patterns across sources
- Control retention, compression, archiving, and role-based access
- Send log-derived signals into Nagios XI when infrastructure monitoring needs the context
A different way to budget for log growth
Size storage and capacity for your workload—not the software license for every additional gigabyte.
No per-GB fees
Nagios Log Server software is not licensed by log volume.
Control retention
Keep the history your policies and investigations require, subject to the storage you provision.
Built to scale
Add clustered instances for capacity, redundancy, and failover.
Plan the deployment
Plan for volume, retention, and resilience
MCS can help estimate log volume, retention needs, storage, query load, and redundancy requirements, then determine whether a stand-alone or clustered Log Server deployment makes sense.
Nagios recommends clustered deployments when redundancy and automatic failover matter, so the architecture should be sized around the operational requirement—not just today’s ingest rate.
Evaluating log management?
Start with volume, retention, and what you need to know
Tell us where logs come from today, how much data you generate, how long you need to keep it, and what your team needs to search, alert on, or prove.
- Log sources and approximate daily volume
- Retention, compliance, and archive requirements
- Redundancy, failover, and search-performance needs
- Log Server licensing, sizing, and XI integration
Review my log environment
Approximate numbers are enough to start; MCS can help work through the sizing.