Can Zabbix work as a central syslog storage?

[hasan101]

Hey all,

I like to use Zabbix for monitoring and alerting needs. Everything is just fine even if I am a GUI user and have some backend skills. However, I would like to have a log archive of some components of our company such as firewall, NAS logs. I was doing it periodically backup and compress text files into a storage area until now. But it seems I need to migrate this method to a better automated environment. So, I already have Zabbix. I read some documents that say Zabbix can do it, but I couldn't find any details. So, can it?

Cheers.

[cyber]

Zabbix is not a log management tool. One thing is read those logs for patterns and trigger stuff based on it. But log storage is completely different matter...
So... No.

[guille.rodriguez]

Elasticsearch is what you're looking for.

And if you parse the logs, you can query after looking for some data, like show me all logs from network vlan A to network vlan B (host source, host destination, port, action(allow, drop, reject))