Kiwi Syslog Server vs SolarWinds Loggly

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.

SolarWinds Loggly is a cloud service for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting, visualizing, and reporting on logs, with collaboration features. It collects logs without proprietary agents and accepts syslog over TCP, UDP, or TLS, as well as HTTP/S. Sources include public and private clouds, AWS, Azure, hybrid environments, devices, containers, Linux, Windows, Mac, and serverless systems. Loggly automatically parses logs and provides search, filters, statistical analysis, field exploration, charts, dashboards, and surround search. It integrates with Slack, GitHub, Jira, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, custom webhooks, and other DevOps tools. The fully functional 30-day trial needs no credit card and includes Enterprise-tier features; afterward, the account converts to the free Lite package. Lite lists 200 MB per day and seven-day retention. Standard costs $79 a month, billed annually, and includes 1 GB per day with 15-day retention. Data is automatically and permanently deleted at the end of the retention period.