AxoSyslog
The facts below are what the maker publishes about AxoSyslog, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From AxoSyslog's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| AxoSyslog | Free | Open-source software licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later |
The facts
Each one read from AxoSyslog's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Archive export
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Buffering
- Persistent disk buffering stores messages during server or network outages and forwards them in received order after connectivity returns.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data processing
- FilterX parses, filters, enriches, and reshapes data including JSON, OpenTelemetry logs, and protocol buffers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Installation options include Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes via Helm.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- self-hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Named integrations include Splunk Cloud, Grafana Loki, Amazon S3, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, CrowdStrike, Google Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- AxoSyslog version 4.12 and newer uses the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limit
- AxoSyslog does not interpret or analyze the meaning of log messages or recognize patterns across messages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Log pipelines
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Metrics
- It collects host and transfer metrics such as disk buffer usage, packet loss, and event delay, and can create custom labeled metrics from message fields.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Protocols
- It supports OpenTelemetry, legacy BSD syslog, RFC5424, and HTTP JSON data delivery.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- AxoSyslog is an open-source security data processor for collecting, processing, and routing logs and observability data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- It supports TLS for encrypted communication and X.509 certificate authentication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured log parsing
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- Axoflow offers community and professional support, and professional services for load balancing, UDP loss, dropped messages, buffers, and scaling.checked 11 Oct 2026
- syslog-ng compatibility
- AxoSyslog is a drop-in syslog-ng replacement with the same binaries, configuration files, syntax, and license practices.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Axoflow describes itself as a US-based cybersecurity startup with European origins and says it was founded in 2023.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Windows collection
- Axoflow provides a custom OpenTelemetry Collector distribution to collect logs on Windows hosts and forward them to AxoSyslog.checked 11 Oct 2026
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