SolarWinds Security Event Manager Alternatives

SolarWinds Security Event Manager is described as 'Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager) is an affordable and easy-to-use SIEM tool, a hardened virtual appliance with encryption capabilities for data in transit and at rest, SSO/smart card integration, and more' and is a web log analyzer in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SolarWinds Security Event Manager for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted and SaaS apps. The best SolarWinds Security Event Manager alternative is Sigma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SolarWinds Security Event Manager are Event Log Explorer, LastActivityView, MyEventViewer and Event Viewer.

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  1. Sigma icon
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    Sigma is a generic and open signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events in a straightforward manner. The rule format is very flexible, easy to write and applicable to any type of log file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Sigma is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • Sigma is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • Sigma is Free and Open SourceSolarWinds Security Event Manager is Paid and Proprietary
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    Event Log Explorer is an effective software solution for viewing, monitoring and analyzing events recorded in Security, System, Application and other logs of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Event Log Explorer greatly extends standard Windows Event Viewer monitoring...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Event Log Explorer is the most popular Windows alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • Event Log Explorer is Freemium and ProprietarySolarWinds Security Event Manager is Paid and Proprietary
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    LastActivityView is a tool for Windows operating system that collects information from various sources on a running system, and displays a log of actions made by the user and events occurred on this computer. The activity displayed by LastActivityView includes: Running .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. MyEventViewer icon
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    MyEventViewer is a simple alternative to the standard event viewer of Windows. As opposed to Windows event viewer, MyEventViewer allows you to watch multiple event logs in one list, as well as the event description and data are displayed in the main window, instead of opening a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Event Viewer icon
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    Event Viewer is an advanced tool that displays detailed information about significant events on your computer. It can be helpful when troubleshooting problems and errors with Windows and other programs.

    27 Event Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Nagios Log Server is a powerful enterprise-class log monitoring and management application that allows organizations to quickly and easily view, sort, and configure logs from any source on any given network.

    68 Nagios Log Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Nagios Log Server is the most popular Web-based & Linux alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • Nagios Log Server is the most popular commercial alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • Nagios Log Server is Paid and ProprietarySolarWinds Security Event Manager is also Paid and Proprietary
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    An application to view live log files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • macOS Console is the most popular Mac alternative to SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

    • macOS Console is Free and ProprietarySolarWinds Security Event Manager is Paid and Proprietary
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    View, analyze and monitor events recorded in Microsoft Windows event logs with Event Log Observer, a powerful software tool that helps you find and analyze security warnings, problems and any other events that occur within Windows operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Motadata icon
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    To provide uninterrupted services to the users, an operational team needs correlated data, integrations across the board to collect & automate and analytics capabilities to monitor & visualize critical KPIs to make more informed decisions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    VirtualMetric is a secure real time infrastructure monitoring for Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS, Bare Metal. It is an agentless reporting software, monitoring your hosts and clusters to provide statistics and reports.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • VMware Server
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Microsoft IIS
     
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    Event Log Monitor Software to monitor and manage windows system events. It facilitates to get ability to collect event logs, DNS server logs, query based reports, system logs and receive alerts from multiple computers across the overall network and makes event browsing easy with...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Crescendo icon
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    Crescendo is a real time event viewer for macOS that uses the ESF to show process executions and forks, file events, share mounting events, kernel extension loads, and IPC event data. ESF provides a vast amount of data, but the goal was to just pick out the things that analysts...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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