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Looking for an SC4S alternative? See how Axoflow routes, classifies, and normalizes syslog and other data to any SIEM — cutting SIEM costs by 40–70% and ending Splunk lock-in.

Store security logs long-term without SIEM costs or vendor lock-in. See how the Axoflow Storage Layer uses open Parquet files on object storage you control.

What the seven-platform SDPP comparisons miss: two criteria that change the answer for enterprise security teams evaluating pipelines in 2026-2027.

Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle dropped standalone security data pipelines and added Security Data Lakes. What this market shift means for your SOC.

How Federal Agencies can meet the requirements of the OMB M-26-14 logging mandate, and how Axoflow can help them to get there fast and in a cost-effective way

AI SOCs underperform when fed messy, human-oriented telemetry. Why machine-readable, normalized security data is the real foundation of an AI-native SOC.

How Axoflow solves the Getting Data In problem for Cortex XSIAM: automated LEEF formatting, XDM normalization, and clean, ready-to-use security data.

Schema drift silently breaks parsers and creates detection gaps. Learn how pipeline-layer validation catches drift before your SIEM does.

Struggling with pipeline sprawl? Discover how Axoflow brings visibility, control, and consolidation to complex data pipelines—without risky rip-and-replace.

Monolithic SIEMs are failing under cloud scale and rising costs. Why decoupled security architectures and pipelines replace ingest-everything models.

A government organization cut infrastructure by 85% and log volume by 40% with Axoflow's security data pipeline during its Google SecOps migration.

syslog-ng was the right choice for years, but modern log pipelines demand more than stability. Why log infrastructure needs to evolve, and where to go next.

Indexed fields can make Splunk searches up to 10x faster. See how Axoflow sends payload- and externally-derived metadata to Splunk efficiently.

Gain strategic control with Axoflow's autonomous data layer: Axolake, AxoStore, and Locker for automated curation, cost cuts, and compliance.

Security data pipelines are becoming the SOC's control plane. Key report findings on cost efficiency, data quality, and faster investigations.

Learn how a leading U.S. healthcare company used Axoflow to gain log observability, improve syslog-ng monitoring, and cut data costs by 30% in days.

Axoflow's storage strategy for the Security Data Layer: edge storage, cost-efficient data lakes, stream processing, and air-gapped deployments.

Optimize firewall logs before they hit Splunk with AxoRouter: better data quality, lower ingestion costs, no more noisy unstructured messages.

Redundant log delivery quietly duplicates data, distorts analytics, and inflates your SIEM bill. Learn how to detect and prevent duplication.

AxoSyslog, our syslog-ng fork, moves to a single clear open source license: GPL-3.0-or-later. What changes for users and contributors.

How Axoflow natively integrates with Google SecOps, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Private Service Connect to secure your security data pipelines.

Activity report of the first year of AxoSyslog, our drop-in syslog-ng fork.

See how you can be a hero by connecting machines and logging data to your analytics tool of choice in 12 minutes or less using the Axoflow Platform.

Optimize SIEM data ingestion with automated classification. Improve accuracy, reduce costs, and eliminate log chaos. Learn how Axoflow can help!

An end-to-end look at how security data travels from appliance to SIEM, and the ingestion failures that silently hide events from your SOC.

How do you use AxoRouter as a Windows Event Collector (WEC) server to collect Windows Event Logs and forward them to your SIEM.

How high-quality security data cuts SIEM costs, improves detection accuracy, and boosts SOC efficiency. Real strategies and a 50% savings story.

Upgrade syslog-ng to AxoSyslog in minutes with no configuration changes. What the drop-in replacement means and how the migration works.

How to configure OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Windows Event Logs and forward them to an AxoRouter aggregator via OTLP.

Axoflow will use its $7 million seed funding to make security data easy-to-handle everywhere: during collection, routing, and in the SIEM.

Four practical tricks to reduce SIEM data volume and cut ingestion costs. Collect better data instead of more data, without losing visibility.

Building a community is no small feat. A quick recap of what the Axoflow team does together when we're not working on security data pipelines.

Learn how security data pipeline management tools like Axoflow improve data quality, cut SIEM costs, and boost security team efficiency.

Six months into AxoSyslog, the binary-compatible syslog-ng fork: development activity, new features, and what's ahead for the project.

Discover the flexible deployment modes of Axoflow, and learn how you can streamline SIEM data management, reduce costs by 50%, and improve data quality.

Our automated data engine solves syslog issues: fixes, optimizes, and structures security logs before they reach your SIEM, improving performance and accuracy

Without reliable host attribution, security teams lose vital context. Axoflow's inventory enriches data so you can pinpoint every event's source.

FilterX makes filtering and modifying logs easier and faster, handling nested JSON and OpenTelemetry logs as a syslog-ng filter replacement.

AxoSyslog automatically detects and tags formatting errors in syslog messages, improving data quality and reducing false positives in your SIEM.

Watch how to use log tapping to detect rogue devices, investigate parsing errors, and find out what’s wrong with the syslog messages your devices are sending.

AxoRouter auto-identifies log sources and fixes missing hostnames, invalid timestamps, and formatting errors. No rule maintenance required.

Log tapping samples your pipeline's log flow on demand. Filter by labels and investigate problematic syslog events with just a few clicks.

AxoSyslog is now a real fork of syslog-ng: still open source under the same license, actively maintained with new features from its creators.

Meet the Axoflow team at KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris at Booth L36: Logging operator, Telemetry Controller, and pipeline observability.