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Syslog Watcher : https://syslogwatcher.com

Syslog Server
A syslog server collects, parses, stores, analyses, and explains syslog messages to professional network administrators, helping to improve the stability and reliability of the network.

Syslog Watcher installs a dedicated syslog server, integrating log data from multiple network devices into a single, easily manageable and accessible place. Collecting and analysing syslogs is essential for maintaining network stability and auditing network security.

SNMP Soft’s “Syslog Watcher” is an excellent SYSLOG server for home and commercial use.

Features and options that make it a great contender when it comes to Syslog and SNMP. The interface is and simple and intuitive, with an up-front view of all the configuration options and tasks you would want to quickly perform. The server can be started and stopped, status can be pulled, logs can be managed and retrieved, servers can be required, events can be filtered and searched, imported and exported, reports can be fun, and so forth.

Compatibility it works well in windows server versions, 2008 and 2012, both initial and R2 versions.

On the downside, this portion of the program is somewhat lacking when it comes to customization – the overall look of it is very plain and can be hard to sort through visually without taking the time to apply filters and perform searches. By no means is it a deal breaker, but it does make it a bit harder to use “at a glance” than some other offerings. None the less, the main window provides a great deal of the information one would want to see, with a handy tabbed setup for easily jumping between different subsections of that data.

As far as a general list of features, Syslog Watcher has a log to brag about. For being a smaller and lower-cost program, it can handle upwards of 5000 Syslog messages per second, and runs as a Windows service, making it better for server-less or small-server environments.

Data and archiving are handled automatically, with more critical messages being kept longer to avoid removing important log information in favour of a rush of less important messages, thus helping reduce signal to noise ratio substantially in histories.
Thankfully, a little testing is easy to do with the personal version without any real risk of cost, and thankfully via the import/export, it’s not very hard to ramp up from the personal version into the more appropriate Standard or Pro versions that your environment might demand.