NXLog vs. Retrospective Comparison


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About Achieve complete security observability with powerful insights from your log data. Improve your infrastructure visibility and enhance threat prevention with a versatile multi-platform tool. With support for over 100 operating system versions and more than 120 configurable modules, gain comprehensive insights and increased security. Cut the cost of your SIEM solution by reducing noisy and unnecessary log data. Filter events, truncate unused fields, and remove duplicates to increase the quality of your logs. Collect and aggregate logs from systems across the entire breadth of your organization with a single tool. Reduce complexity in managing security-related events and decrease detection and response times. Empower your organization to meet compliance requirements by centralizing some logs in an SIEM and archiving others in your long-term storage. NXLog Platform is an on-premises solution for centralized log management, with versatile processing.	About Retrospective is a desktop application for convenient and effective searching in local and distributed log files as well as log data from container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Such data sources are accessed on local and/or remote computers and the log data of different format is extracted, combined and displayed in one place (the result table). Advanced features such as profile definition, data source monitoring, sorting/filtering result entries, highlighting, bookmarking, exporting etc. enable fast and robust log data exploration. Retrospective assists you in early error detection by monitoring application servers’ logs, searching for exceptions, etc. The highly optimized search engine together with the aforementioned features ensures that much precious time is saved. Being able to access all log data in one place makes log data processing incredibly efficient, thus ensuring quick and effective reactions to problems, and therefore gain customers’ trust and loyalty.
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Not Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Security teams wanting a tool to streamline their logging and IT security operations	Audience IT specialists ranging from business analysts, software developers, testers to system administrators
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing $92 per year Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
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	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Easy to use for people like me that are not working daily with complex grep commands. sorting fetching and exclude text form a search. perfect to drag n drop a file and analyse it. Cons the great features are sometimes hidden. The handbook will help you to find some, in case you are reading Handbooks.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Not Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information NXLog Founded: 2014 United States nxlog.co	Company Information centeractive AG Founded: 2005 Switzerland retrospective.centeractive.com
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Categories Log Analysis Supported Log Monitoring Supported	Categories Log Analysis Supported Log Management Supported Log Monitoring Supported

Integrations Kubernetes Supported Apache Tomcat Supported Azure Monitor Supported Azure Table Storage Supported CENTUM CS Supported Datadog Supported ERP-AIX Supported Google Cloud Logging Supported Google Security Operations (SecOps) Supported IBM AIX Supported Microsoft IIS Supported Microsoft Sentinel Supported NetApp Cloud Insights Supported OpenText Enterprise Security Manager Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supported SAP Cloud Platform Supported SIMATIC SCADA Supported Symantec Endpoint Protection Supported Synology Drive Supported Trellix XDR Supported Show More Integrations View All 97 Integrations	Integrations Kubernetes Supported Apache Tomcat Not Supported Azure Monitor Not Supported Azure Table Storage Not Supported CENTUM CS Not Supported Datadog Not Supported ERP-AIX Not Supported Google Cloud Logging Not Supported Google Security Operations (SecOps) Not Supported IBM AIX Not Supported Microsoft IIS Not Supported Microsoft Sentinel Not Supported NetApp Cloud Insights Not Supported OpenText Enterprise Security Manager Not Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Not Supported SAP Cloud Platform Not Supported SIMATIC SCADA Not Supported Symantec Endpoint Protection Not Supported Synology Drive Not Supported Trellix XDR Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 2 Integrations
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