Thank you all for your thoughts....

I am partial to open source for now.  I need to be able to show some value
before looking for a budget on this one (other than my time).  It sounds
like the consensus is pointing to Splunk as a good starting point.  I do use
Aanval on my IDS boxes and should probably look at it for this...  I wanted
to get some opinons first though.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM, scott burkhart <[email protected]>wrote:

> A previous poster mentioned Cisco Mars, I utilize a Mars device and can
> highly recommend it. We process over 30 million events (firewall logs,
> windows event logs, linux logs, router logs) a day and it makes short work
> of analyzing data. Used Splunk (still actually use splunk installed locally
> as needed) for a while and it worked great as well.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Michael Douglas <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> If you're not opposed to commercial products, I can highly recommend
>> LogRhythm.  It's quite powerful, yet easy to use.  Note that with any
>> log analyzer, the setup is a pain.
>>
>> - Mick
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:58 PM, John Lowry<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I really like using OSSEC on my syslog machine to scan for EOI for me an
>> > alert me when stuff happens. I then use Splunk for searching through
>> > those events.
>> >
>> > Paul Asadoorian wrote:
>> >> Splunk was one of those tools that got popular after I left the
>> >> university.  I think we need to do a tech segment on it as its been
>> >> highly recommended by many.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Paul
>> >>
>> >> Russell Butturini wrote:
>> >>> Commercial or open source? For commercial we like Cisco’s CS-MARS, but
>> >>> that’s a big investment.  Free tools, Splunk is pretty darn good.
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