Case Study: University of Victoria achieves centralized log management and faster incident response with syslog-ng

Secure Log Management with syslog-ng™

The University of Victoria, a leading Canadian university serving more than 20,000 users, needed a better way to centralize log collection across 700+ Unix and Windows systems and more than 1,500 network devices. To reduce total cost of ownership and speed incident response, the university turned to syslog-ng Premium Edition after finding that native tools like syslogd and Windows Eventlog could not reliably consolidate and filter logs across its diverse IT environment.

syslog-ng implemented a central log management solution for UVic that used PatternDB to classify log messages in real time, scale to high message volumes, and tag events for flexible filtering and post-processing. With syslog-ng, UVic’s administrators gained the ability to identify incidents as they occurred, improving monitoring and response capabilities across the university’s infrastructure.

University of Victoria

Evan Rempel

Senior System Administrator