You can watch the screen, but you won’t get an email or Slack message if “CRITICAL” appears. That makes it useless for on-call monitoring.
No hidden 30-day trial. No nag screens. No data limit (just source limit). The Bad (Frustrations in 2025) The 5-source limit is harsh One router + one switch + two servers + one firewall = cap reached. You cannot even monitor a single hypervisor’s host + its 4 VMs. kiwi syslog free download
Only plain UDP 514 or TCP 1468. In 2025, sending logs over the network unencrypted is a security red flag. You can watch the screen, but you won’t
The free version does not rotate or compress old logs. A busy device can fill your C: drive overnight. You’ll need a scheduled task to move/delete logs. No nag screens
You can create basic rules to ignore debug logs or highlight critical errors. Works exactly as it did 10 years ago – stable but dated.