Does anybody know of a good tool to collect and analyse the application logs from a number of different Windows servers running on VMWare? All servers are on the same domain.
Ideally the tool would be free and open source.
Thanks
Windows Server Event Log Collection and Analysis
log-filesloggingwindows-server-2003
Best Answer
Splunk is the new hot player on the market. It's a sorta-free model. A single server is free, but if you want to correlate multiple servers logs into a single server you need to pay.
Zenoss has a much less robust log aggregator, but it works, and you can do many other things with Zenoss as well. Zenoss operates under a sorta-free model as well, but there is no limit on the free version, only a few missing features.
FWIW, I would pay for splunk. It's that good