Why enterprises choose
Axoflow Platform vs. SC4S?

Ready to explore SC4S alternatives? Learn why enterprises choose Axoflow Platform - built by the original creators and maintainers of syslog-ng^™ - over Splunk Connect for Syslog.

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Not just syslog, not just Splunk

50-80% of data volume reduction out‑of‑the‑box

12.5x better performance

GUI and advanced metrics

Not just syslog, not just Splunk

Not just for Splunk, not just syslog data - Axoflow supports a multitude of destinations and data formats apart from syslog: Windows, OpenTelemetry, cloud, Webhooks and REST APIs.

50-80% data volume reduction

Automatic security data curation that enables Axoflow to automatically reduce 50-80% of data volumes out-of-the-box, translating to up to 50% SIEM cost reduction.

12.5x better performance

Axoflow Platform has 12.5x better performance, translating to further significant cost savings on the infrastructure side.

GUI and advanced metrics

GUI and advanced metrics - Axoflow comes with an easy-to-use GUI and out-of-the-box metrics helping you visualize, manage, and troubleshoot your whole GDI process.

Mark BONSACK

Co-author of SC4S,
Director of SE Axoflow

We started SC4S with the hope of it becoming something like Axoflow turned out to be. It realizes everything users want to do when it comes to automatic data classification, curation and routing.

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Experience first-hand how Axoflow automates data curation, visualizes your whole GDI process, not just for Splunk and not just for syslog data.

How does the Axoflow Platform uplevel your GDI?

Eliminate vendor lock-in

Axoflow Platform is vendor-agnostic, helping you claim back the ownership of your data. Fancy using another SIEM for a different use case or team? Data tiering? No problem!

Automation

Axoflow automatically discovers, identifies incoming data sources, parses then reduces, and curates data before routing flows to their respective destinations. All of this without writing yet another config.

GUI, advanced metrics

Axoflow Platform removes the complexity of syslog-ng™—often called a programming language—via an intuitive GUI, plus out-of-the-box insights and alerts to prevent data loss.

Comparison

Axoflow vs. Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S)

See full comparison of how the Axoflow Platform – a more performant vendor-agnostic alternative to SC4S, stands out in key areas:

Feature

Axoflow Platform

SC4S

Performance

Data throughput with reduction

2.5 TB/day/core

n/a

Data throughput without reduction

5 TB/day/core

400 GB/day/core

Data support, destinations

Data scope

Syslog/Cloud/OpenTelemetry/Windows/API

Syslog only

Supported destinations

Over 40, including Splunk, Elasticsearch, Google Pub/Sub, MS Sentinel, Amazon S3

Splunk only

GUI

Visual interface to manage configuration

Visualization of the physical infrastructure layer

Collect and visualize host and pipeline metrics

Determine root cause events

Data curation, reduction

Automatic syslog data fixups

Automatic data identification

Automatic inventory

Automatic data parsing

Automatic data reduction

Customer-specific rules and custom configuration

Advanced data processing

Data routing

Based on declarative policies

Based on static rules

Data insights

Metrics

Metrics collection

Out-of-the-box pipeline health visualization

Out-of-the-box identification and analytics of data flows

Real-time data input / output tapping in the GUI

Visualize and repair data issues like malformed messages, missing frames, and headers

Alerting and reporting

via Splunk only

Setup and maintenance

Automatic data discovery

Automatic updates to data field (device) changes

No coding and training needed for users

Other

Support + professional services

Deployment options

SaaS, on-prem, air-gapped

On-prem, air-gapped

Latest release

Released every month

Security certifications

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001

How Axoflow Platform is similar to SC4S

Similar underlying technology

Axoflow is built on top of AxoSyslog, our syslog-ng™ fork.

Carrier-grade performance and scalability

Deployed at scale in the world’s most demanding IT environments.

Fully supported

The Axoflow Platform is fully supported and Axoflow also offers professional services and support for your log management deployments.

Choose Axoflow for upleveling your GDI process with significantly higher performance, centralized configuration, GUI, metrics, and automatic data curation delivering up to 50% cost reduction.

And the best part: no costly retraining needed!

Learn more about how we instrument SC4S with metrics

Ready to see Axoflow in action?

Request a Sandbox and experience how automation unlocks:

50%

reduction

in SIEM ingestion costs

Up to

85%

lower MTTR

Real-time

observability

over your GDI infrastructure

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