Why Enterprises Choose Axoflow Platform vs. syslog-ng Premium Edition?

Ready to explore syslog-ng™ PE alternatives? Learn why enterprises choose Axoflow Platform - built by the original creators and maintainers of syslog-ng™ - over Premium Edition.
Modernized log and data pipeline management with GUI, metrics, and automatic security curation.
Automatically reduces data volume by 50-80%, translating to up to 50% SIEM cost reduction.
Actively developed and professionally supported by the creators of syslog-ng.

Modernized log and data pipeline management

Axoflow is not just an alternative, it’s the complete modernization of your log management with GUI, out-of-the-box metrics, and automatic security data curation. It also comes with a Windows agent, WEC, cloud sources, and OpenTelemetry support, and other features that will transform the way you collect and work with your security data to improve the security posture of your company.

cost reduction

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

Professional support

Axoflow is actively developed and professionally supported. We are not only the original creators of syslog-ng™ but we are still contributing to syslog-ng™ Open Source Edition.

Try Axoflow Platform for your existing PE environment for free

Deploy Axoflow Platform easily and realize immediate operational benefits for your existing PE environment by visualizing the data flows, infrastructure, and the health of your security data pipeline! Free for a 30-day trial!

How the Axoflow Platform modernizes log management?

… but Axoflow Platform is much, much more than just a log management platform for syslog data.
Comparison

Axoflow vs. syslog-ng Premium Edition

See full comparison of how Axoflow Platform a modern, automated alternative to syslog-ng Premium Edition, stands out in key areas:

Feature
Axoflow Platform
syslog-ng Premium Edition
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
Dynamic policies
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
Setup and maintenance
Automatic data discovery
Automatic updates to data field 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
20 November 2023
Security certifications
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001

How Axoflow Platform is similar to Premium Edition

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 Automatically reduced, high-quality data, and true cost savings!
And the best part: no costly retraining needed!

Case study

Imagine working in the dark everyday and then one day someone walks in and turns on the lights… Axoflow turns on the lights.

How a large government organization instrumented its syslog-ng PE with Axoflow

Learn how Axoflow instrumented the SLED customer’s existing deployment with metrics resulting in data quality improvements, reducing the total number of tickets, and a 85% lower MTTR – from hours to minutes in troubleshooting daily issues with their data flows.

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 syslog infrastructure