Compare the Top Log Monitoring Tools for Windows as of October 2025

What are Log Monitoring Tools for Windows?

Log monitoring tools are software tools designed to collect, analyze, and track log data generated by systems, applications, and networks in real-time. They help organizations detect anomalies, performance issues, and security threats by providing insights into operational events and system behaviors. These tools often feature alerting mechanisms that notify administrators of potential issues, ensuring rapid response and minimizing downtime. By aggregating logs from multiple sources, log monitoring tools simplify troubleshooting and provide a centralized view of system health. They are essential for maintaining system reliability, compliance, and proactive problem management in IT environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best Log Monitoring tools for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    Pandora FMS

    With more than 50,000 customer installations across the five continents, Pandora FMS is a truly all-in-one monitoring solution, covering all traditional silos for specific monitoring: servers, networks, applications, logs, synthetic/transactional, remote control, inventory, etc. Pandora FMS gives you the agility to find and solve problems quickly, scaling them so they can be derived from any source, on-premise, multi cloud or both of them mixed. Now you have that capability across your entire IT stack and analytics to find any problem, even the ones that are hard to find. Thanks to more than 500 plugins available, you can control and manage any application and technology, from SAP, Oracle, Lotus, Citrix or Jboss to VMware, AWS, SQL Server, Redhat, Websphere, etc.
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    Starting Price: €90/month
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    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    Dynatrace

    The Dynatrace software intelligence platform. Transform faster with unparalleled observability, automation, and intelligence in one platform. Leave the bag of tools behind, with one platform to automate your dynamic multicloud and align multiple teams. Spark collaboration between biz, dev, and ops with the broadest set of purpose-built use cases in one place. Harness and unify even the most complex dynamic multiclouds, with out-of-the box support for all major cloud platforms and technologies. Get a broader view of your environment. One that includes metrics, logs, and traces, as well as a full topological model with distributed tracing, code-level detail, entity relationships, and even user experience and behavioral data – all in context. Weave Dynatrace’s open API into your existing ecosystem to drive automation in everything from development and releases to cloud ops and business processes.
    Starting Price: $11 per month
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    Graylog

    Graylog

    Graylog

    Built on the Graylog Platform, Graylog Security is the industry’s best-of-breed threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) solution. It simplifies analysts’ day-to-day cybersecurity activities with an unmatched workflow and user experience while simultaneously providing short- and long-term budget flexibility in the form of low total cost of ownership (TCO) that CISOs covet. With Graylog Security, security analysts can: 1. Decrease risk and metrics like mean time to detect (MTTD) by aligning threat detection coverage to meet your security objectives 2. Reduce TCO with native data routing and data tiering functionality 3. Reduce key metrics like mean time to respond (MTTR) by quickly resolving the alerts that matter. Graylog Security is a robust, scalable solution that empowers analysts to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats efficiently. With integrated SOAR functionality, it automates repetitive tasks, orchestrates workflows, and accelerates incident response.
    Starting Price: $1550/month
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    EventSentry

    EventSentry

    NETIKUS.NET ltd

    Hybrid SIEM solution combining real-time (event) log monitoring with comprehensive system health & network monitoring provides users with a complete picture of their servers and endpoints. The included security event log normalization & correlation engine with descriptive email alerts provides additional context and presents cryptic Windows security events in easy to understand reports that offer insight beyond what is available from raw events. EventSentry's NetFlow component visualizes network traffic, can detect malicious activity and offers insight into bandwith usage. Keeping track of Active Directory changes is easy with EventSentry's ADMonitor component that records all changes to AD & Group Policy objects and provides a complete user inventory to help identify obsolete accounts. Various integrations & multi-tenancy available.
    Starting Price: $85.00/one-time
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    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor

    LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything from networks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. Bridge the gap between tech, teams, and IT with powerful real-time dashboards, network device configurations, full data center visibility, network scanning, and flexible alerting and reporting.
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    Trunc

    Trunc

    Trunc

    All your logs. One place. Troubleshoot errors, detect attacks, audit your users and solve compliance requirements with Trunc. Keep all your logs, easily accessible, with full-text logging search. Logs are automatically categorized, correlated and stored. Alerts and active response included.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    NXLog

    NXLog

    NXLog

    Achieve complete security observability with powerful insights from your log data. Improve your infrastructure visibility and enhance threat prevention with a versatile multi-platform tool. With support for over 100 operating system versions and more than 120 configurable modules, gain comprehensive insights and increased security. Cut the cost of your SIEM solution by reducing noisy and unnecessary log data. Filter events, truncate unused fields, and remove duplicates to increase the quality of your logs. Collect and aggregate logs from systems across the entire breadth of your organization with a single tool. Reduce complexity in managing security-related events and decrease detection and response times. Empower your organization to meet compliance requirements by centralizing some logs in an SIEM and archiving others in your long-term storage. NXLog Platform is an on-premises solution for centralized log management, with versatile processing.
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    SysTools Exchange Log Analyzer
    Provides a save scan option to load the saved exchange log file. Export scanned Exchange files into multiple file formats. Provides support for export as PDF, MSG, EML, and HTML options. Exchange log analyzer provides the option to repair corrupt Exchange log files. Provision to analyze Exchange server log file along with all data items. It does not impose any edb.log file size limitation. EDB file is necessary to analyze and open Exchange log files. Supports various Exchange versions to extract emails from Exchange database files. Option to perform a date-based filter on Exchange Log files. A user can use the Exchange Log Analyzer tool to view & load transaction edb.log of the Exchange server. The software will first analyze the Exchange log reader file and then, provide a view of all the required data such as emails from Exchange Server 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007 transaction log files file. However, it is necessary to have an EDB file also to perform log analysis.
    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    Retrospective

    Retrospective

    centeractive AG

    Retrospective is a desktop application for convenient and effective searching in local and distributed log files as well as log data from container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Such data sources are accessed on local and/or remote computers and the log data of different format is extracted, combined and displayed in one place (the result table). Advanced features such as profile definition, data source monitoring, sorting/filtering result entries, highlighting, bookmarking, exporting etc. enable fast and robust log data exploration. Retrospective assists you in early error detection by monitoring application servers’ logs, searching for exceptions, etc. The highly optimized search engine together with the aforementioned features ensures that much precious time is saved. Being able to access all log data in one place makes log data processing incredibly efficient, thus ensuring quick and effective reactions to problems, and therefore gain customers’ trust and loyalty.
    Starting Price: $92 per year
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    LogFusion

    LogFusion

    Binary Fortress Software

    LogFusion is a powerful realtime log monitoring application designed for system administrators and developers! Use custom highlighting rules, filtering and more. You can even sync your LogFusion settings between computers. Use LogFusion's powerful custom highlighting to match text strings or regex patterns and format the matched log lines to suit your needs. Use LogFusion's Advanced Text Filtering to filter and hide lines that don't match your search text, all in realtime as new lines are being added. Complex queries allow you to easily narrow down your results. LogFusion can automatically add new logs from Watched Folders. Just specify the folders to monitor, and LogFusion will automatically open any new log files created in those folders.
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    SolarWinds Log Analyzer
    Easily investigate machine data to help identify the root cause of IT issues faster. Powerfully designed and intuitive log aggregation, tagging, filtering, and alerting for effective troubleshooting. Fully integrated with Orion Platform products, enabling a unified view of IT infrastructure monitoring and associated logs. We’ve worked as network and systems engineers, so we understand your problems and how to solve them. Your infrastructure is constantly generating log data to provide performance insight. Collect, consolidate, and analyze thousands of syslog, traps, Windows, and VMware events to perform root-cause analysis with log monitoring tools from Log Analyzer. Perform searches using basic matching. Execute searches using multiple search criteria and apply filters to narrow results. Save, schedule, and export search results within the log monitoring software.
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    Burstek LogAnalyzer
    In a perfect world there would be no need to track employee Web usage. It's not a perfect world. So, for today's world filled with malicious code, illegal file sharing, spyware, adware, hacking, cracking, and Phishing, there has to be a serious solution: bt-LogAnalyzer from Burstek. Burstek's bt-LogAnalyzer is Web log analysis software that offers comprehensive reporting in a concise format. As a core component of Burstek's Enterprise suite of products, bt-LogAnalyzer provides the level of security insight and Internet log analysis necessary to make informed decisions about deployment, use and protection of a company's Internet and Email resources, and how to optimize these vital resources for maximum business benefit. bt-LogAnalyzer reads Internet logs for all outbound Web activity and generates categorized graphical and numerical Web usage reports that either detail or highlight all Web usage within an organization.
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    Snare

    Snare

    Prophecy International Holdings Ltd.

    Snare Central is a centralized log management solution that collects, processes, and stores log data from various sources across an organization’s network. It provides a secure and scalable platform for aggregating logs from systems, applications, and devices, allowing for efficient monitoring and analysis. With advanced filtering and reporting capabilities, Snare Central enables organizations to detect security threats, ensure compliance, and optimize operational performance. The platform supports integration with third-party tools for enhanced analytics and provides customizable dashboards for real-time insights. Snare Central is designed to meet the needs of security, compliance, and IT teams by providing a unified view of log data and supporting detailed investigations.
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