Open Source Logging Software

smartmontools contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks. It is derived from smartsuite.

ANSI C functions and macros for flexible logging to files and other destinations. It is modeled after the Log for Java library (http://www.log4j.org), staying as close to their API as is reasonable. Intended for use in time-space critical environments

Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis. Development has been moved to GitHub, https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap

syslog-ng is the log management solution that improves the performance of your SIEM solution by reducing the amount and improving the quality of data feeding your SIEM. With syslog-ng Store Box, you can find the answer. Search billions of logs in seconds using full text queries with Boolean operators to pinpoint critical logs. syslog-ng Store Box provides secure, tamper-proof storage and custom reporting to demonstrate compliance. syslog-ng can deliver data from a wide variety of sources to Hadoop, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and Kafka as well as many others. syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management. syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.

MSLB is a crossplatform Simple Logbook program / application to write work logs or even a diary. MSLB can also use a bunch of presets that you can add with a simple doubleclick :) Logs get saved in a simple folder system. And its all portable.

pcapsipdump is libpcap-based SIP sniffer with per-call sorting capabilities. It writes SIP/RTP sessions to disk in a same format, as "tcpdump -w", but one file per SIP session (even if there is thousands of concurrent SIP sessions). Getting started: http://pcapsipdump.sf.net/

A complete OpenSource Network Management System Is SNMP-Standard Oriented (tested on Cisco and Linux). It Integrates Syslog, Tacacs, RRDtool (Performance Graphs), Maps, Traps, TFTP, Autodiscovery, Sound Alerts, AAA, Modular and Extensible.

Lire is a pluggable log analyzer, supporting HTTP, email, DNS, FTP, firewall and print services. Output generated can be txt, (X)HTML, PDF, RTF, and DocBook. The latter four support graphics. For news/support visit the project homepage.

Clockwork Eye is the agent daemon with modules, monitors your machine's resources, watches your services and sends traps. This project aims to provide a monitoring service and a relationship as agent-manager.

Bukkit Log Viewer is a simple, easy-to-use and lightweight program, which loads Bukkit server logs, and highlights the different logs, depending on the logger level. Below is a colour code: FINE = > green FINER = > green FINEST = > green INFO = > cyan SEVERE = > red WARNING = > yellow

Impost is a network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind protocol exploitation.

An easy-to-use Java desktop application to centrally monitor resources from a variety of environments, including the ability to dynamically set up rules to trigger actions based on monitoring. Clients connect via simple and efficient UDP based protocol.

NeTAMS - Network Traffic Accounting and Monitoring Software. It is built for UNIX and works for networks with Cisco routers or PC Unix routers (Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris).

This is a port to Qt/C++ of the Jakarta project's excellent log4j package. Qt users can now benefit from a logging package that can be configured at run-time, thus minimizing (and ideally, eliminating) recompilation.

Spacewatcher monitors the amount of free disk space on machines and alerts designated people when that space falls below predefined thresholds.

Port of Berkeley syslogd version 5.45 daemon that logs to a DB Server like MySQL, Oracle 8i (OCI8). Supported on BSD an Solaris 8...

Flexible web-based firewall log analyzer, supporting netfilter and ipfilter, ipfw, ipchains, cisco routers and Windows XP system logs, and mysql or postgresql database logs using the iptables ULOG or NFLOG target of netfilter others mapped to the ulogd format with a view. Fully supports IPv6 for database logs, and netfilter and ipfilter system file logs. Also supports Maxmind's GeoIP version 2 location databases. For Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, OSX,etc.

The bsmGUI provides a graphical interface to the auditreduce | praudit common criteria tools, to simplify filtering of audit data.

A resource-conscientious, flexible, modular, platform-independent, scalable and robust server based on ircd-ratbox.

ttyrpld is a multi-OS kernel-level TTY keylogger and screenlogger with (a)synchronous replay support. It runs on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.