Logentries and AWS Partner to Centralize CloudTrail, CloudWatch and Log Data Monitoring

BOSTON, July 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Logentries, the most connected log management and analytics service, today announced a new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing centralized monitoring and alerting for CloudTrail, CloudWatch and system log data. As a new AWS CloudTrail partner, Logentries enables recording of AWS API calls, publication of log files to an Amazon S3 bucket in JSON format, and real-time notification and monitoring of log data. Logentries also integrates directly with AWS CloudWatch to enable a single dashboard view across CloudTrail, CloudWatch and system log data for more efficient troubleshooting, security and compliance analysis, and system monitoring.

"Boxever's customer intelligence and personalization platform depends on collecting and aggregating passenger information, from web behavior to transactions, to provide real-time actionable insights to travel retailers," said Alan Giles, CTO, Boxever. "Security and compliance are of paramount importance to our architecture, and Logentries' integration with CloudTrail allows us to track what is happening across our AWS environment. Logentries makes it incredibly easy to centralize and protect our AWS log files using data encryption, obfuscation, and data filtering."

Logentries collects and centralizes CloudTrail data for a deeper understanding of AWS account activity and security assurance. The Logentries integration enables easy aggregation, correlation, and analysis of the CloudTrail log files with CloudWatch and application log information for security, troubleshooting and business analytics. When issues arise, Logentries offers out-of-the-box tags and alerts for common CloudTrail events that notify users immediately via email, SMS, or through a third-party service such as HipChat, PagerDuty, and Campfire.

"Logentries provides pre-defined queries for important events so that you do not have to write complex queries," described Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist, in a recent blog post. "Additionally, Logentries provides out-of-the-box tagging and alerting to highlight and notify you when an important security event takes place."

Real-time alerting for AWS log data and important events include:  

• EC2 Security Group created, deleted, or edited
• New IAM user is created
• User's IAM permissions are changed

The Logentries service features a unique pre-processing engine that collects and analyzes log files in real-time to offer immediate alerting, visualizations, and tailing of the data. There is no complex query language required, making searching the data easy and intuitive with click-through navigation.

"Unlike traditional log management and analytics tools, Logentries is built for the cloud," said Trevor Parsons, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Logentries. "We developed the Logentries service with an open architecture that supports rich connections to AWS in order to centralize the monitoring and alerting of CloudWatch and CloudTrail information, and to also support real-time aggregation and correlation of all log data generated within AWS environments."

Logentries will be unveiling the new CloudTrail integration on Thursday July 10^th, 2014 at the AWS NYC Summit. Logentries Co-founder and Chief Scientist Trevor Parsons will be available to demonstrate the Logentries service at booth #232 from 11:00am-7:00pm. Logentries' CloudTrail support is available today in the free Logentries account. For more information please visit the CloudTrail documentation page, or contact us directly at [email protected].

About Logentries
Logentries is the world's most connected log management and analytics service, making business insights from machine-generated log data easily accessible to development, IT and business operations teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users. While traditional log management and analytics solutions require advanced technical skills to use, and are costly to set-up, Logentries provides an alternative designed for managing huge amounts of data, visualizing insights that matter, and sharing that information across its global user community. To sign up for the free Logentries service, visit http://www.logentries.com/.

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