Kiwi Syslog Server vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging

Kiwi Syslog Server is self-hosted software for collecting and managing syslog messages, SNMP traps, and Windows event logs in a central console. It gathers data from network devices and Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems, with filters for hostname, IP address, priority, time, source, and message text. Rules can send email alerts, run scripts, forward messages, or write logs to files or ODBC databases. Its scheduler can archive and clean up logs, including compressing, encrypting, moving, renaming, and deleting them. SolarWinds lists integrations including Loggly, Network Performance Monitor, Papertrail, Security Event Manager, and Splunk. Kiwi Syslog Server NG supports secure TCP syslog using TLS and certificate-based server authentication. The complete trial runs for 14 days without a credit card. The listed Free Edition is free, but SolarWinds currently marks it “Coming Soon”; it is limited to five network devices, a 500 message buffer, and 10 display windows. The Licensed Edition is listed at $999, paid once.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging is a cloud service for collecting and working with audit logs, OCI service logs, and custom application logs. It supports SQL-like searches, filtering, aggregation, and visualization across infrastructure, application, audit, and database logs, with structured parsing and log pipelines. Custom logs can come from OCI instances, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, on-premises environments, and other cloud providers. Listed service sources include Network Flow Logs, Load Balancer, Object Storage, Functions, API Gateway, and Events. You can use the OCI console, an SDK, command-line interface, REST API, or Terraform. Connector Hub can route logs to Monitoring, Notifications, Streaming, third-party destinations including Splunk, or Object Storage; exports to Object Storage can provide indefinite retention. Ingestion uses Fluentd, and events are normalized to CloudEvents 1.0. Access is managed through log groups and Oracle Identity and Access Management policies. The free tier includes 10 GB of log storage per month, with ingestion and search free. Pay-as-you-go storage is $0.05 per GB stored per month.