Corner Bowl Server Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Corner Bowl Server Manager

4.8

(67)

Pricing

Starting at $132.00 one time

About Corner Bowl Server Manager

Corner Bowl Server Manager is a SIEM, compliance software, an Uptime Monitor and a Server Monitor software tool for IT professionals. Server Manager includes the following components:

Event Log Manager - an on-premise log management software tool designed to help IT professionals monitor, save and analyze log files from a central location. Save log file entries to SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite and Corner Bowl’s own file format. Backup raw Windows EVTX files and Linux/Unix Audit Logs to a central file server. Generate reports to fulfill PCI/DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR and other compliance requirements. Monitor Windows Account Lockouts in real-time.

Disk Monitor - an enterprise Free Disk Space, Ransomware Monitoring and File Access Permissions Monitoring Software Tool for IT professionals. Monitor disk space on all your servers with just a few clicks. Continually monitor Ransomware attacks using our File Integrity Monitor. Fulfill compliance requirements with our detailed recursive Directory and File Access Permissions Reports. Monitor directory sizes, file activity, automatically delete temporary files and much more. Supports Windows, Linux and other Unix flavors using Windows Shar...

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Corner Bowl Server Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $132.00 one time

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Corner Bowl Server Manager Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of Corner Bowl Server Manager
Activity Dashboard
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Anomaly Detection
Archiving & Retention
Audit Management
Audit Trail
Authentication
Automated Scheduling
Automatic Backup
Availability Testing
Bandwidth Monitoring
Charting
Configurable Alerts
Configuration Management
CPU Monitoring
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Database Monitoring
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Device Management
Diagnostic Tools
Downtime Tracking
Drag & Drop
Email Alerts
Email Monitoring
Event Logs
Event Tracking
Firewalls
For MSPs
For Websites
FTP Monitoring
HIPAA Compliant
Intrusion Detection System
Inventory Management
IP Address Monitoring
Issue Management
Issue Tracking
IT Asset Management
IT Reporting
Log Collection
Log Parsing
Log Rotation
Mail Server Monitoring
Mobile Alerts
Monitoring
Multi-Location Monitoring
Multiple User Accounts
Network Analysis
Network Monitoring
Network Resource Management
Network Security
PCI Compliance
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Policy Management
Predictive Analytics
Real-time Alerts
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Remediation Management
Remote Monitoring & Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Risk Alerts
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduled Testing
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Secure Login
Security Auditing
Security Tools
Self Service Portal
Server Logs
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Single Sign On
SSL Monitoring
SSL Security
Status Tracking
Task Management
Task Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Response
Threshold Alerts
Trend Analysis
Uptime Reporting
Usage Tracking/Analytics
User Management
Virtual Machine Monitoring
Visual Analytics
Website Analytics
Web Traffic Reporting

Corner Bowl Server Manager Integrations

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL

SQLite

Corner Bowl Server Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

81%

18%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.7

Steve T.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2024

Corner Bowl Server Manager

It's a great tool! Mike is awesome to work with and very responsive to helping get things configured to exactly what you want.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to get setup and running. Lots of options to make sure your environment is running well.

Cons:

Still finding little bugs now and then, but they get resolved very quickly.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review and your patience when you find bugs.

Replied May 2024

Nathan R.

Verified reviewer

Farming

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2023

Best Value in Monitoring & Log Managment

I have only scratched the surface of what I can do with this software. While initially looking for a low-cost replacement for our previous tool that was primarily used for AD user account monitoring (e.g., new accounts created, privilege escalation, etc.) and some basic auditing of activity on network shares, I found this tool that can do those things and so much more. It can do everything from basic alerts on server free disk space to helping discover & troubleshoot network issues using the syslog server and everything in-between and beyond. The documentation is thorough and accurate. There are also numerous YouTube videos available to help get things configured. The developer's passion for this software is evident, as he's eager to assist with any issues. I look forward to finding more ways to expand my company's usage of CBSM.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The flexibility and extensibility of this software is amazing. The ability to easily monitor and receive alerts on so many diverse machines (basically anything that produces any type of a log - even text files in the filesystem) through one tool makes this a great fit for SMBs, but it's also evident that it can scale to enterprise infrastructure as well.

Cons:

It takes a little time to get a firm understanding of how the software works. Although you can get it installed and monitoring/collecting logs from a single server in ~10 minutes, you will want to spend some time learning how to properly configure your database to suit your environment and how to customize your templates. The documentation and tutorials on the website cover all of this and more.

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

Cost, ease of use, flexibility, support

Reasons for switching to Corner Bowl Server Manager

A 30% cost increase for annual renewal had me looking for alternative solutions. I recalled Corner Bowl from one of my previous employers. The cost is a fraction of the competition, and it can do so much more.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the detailed review, Nathan. As always, please let us know if there is any functionality you would like to see added to the software.

Replied June 2023

Radosław D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2022

Everything is good with that software

I am working with that software from last 3 years and i dont have problem with that. Software were usefull for me.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software meets my requirements. I like that architecture of that product. Its easu to use and configure. Esepcially last version with new UX/UI.

Cons:

The software meets my requirements. I like that architecture of that product. Its easu to use and configure. Esepcially last version with new UX/UI.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for the great review! Please let me know if there are any new features you would like to see.

Replied May 2022

Knut Kristan W.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2022

A *perfect* but not only real-time eventlog monitoring tool

We use this tool the the maximum. We had about let´s say 100 hours to understand completey the architecture and possibilities provided. This tool can be as complex as the questions you want to drill down with. It can analyse the most complex situations - but *then* you need the know-how (or just let you help). As we want to develop this tool ourselves, it was not a kind of "make it work for us and finish". It was like a "program these functions missing also into it", so that it gets even more capable. We are under permanent development as there are new alerts to be made visible with nearly every month. Different behaviour in NTLM, Kerberos, LDAPS, ... ... ... gives us the need to find legacy systems running into problems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We were analysing the capabilities of a dozen other produts. Nearly none of them is as capable as this. One competitor we used the last 15 years was quite good. But they decided not to follow the path into the cloud. With corner bowl our Azure AD audit-logs, sign-ins and risk events are as easy to control as our on premises active directory events.

Cons:

This software a completely modular. To an extent you would not have expected. This gives numerous options to achieve the goal. Some pathways are better, there is not a single way to built a solution. We had to find out what works best for us. And we had some redesign of the hierarchies of rules and so on we built. It is not totally easy to understand. (But that should be obvious because of the dramatic functional possibilities!)

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

The *only* product which provides real-time monitoring (offloaded intelligence to the distributed agents) of about 150 different event IDs and their correlation in a landscape fo about > 50 million events a day and event log sizes of 100 GB native Windows events logs growth per DAY.

Reasons for switching to Corner Bowl Server Manager

They were no longer able to support our German SQL database servers, german texts, Ä,ö,ü,ß and so on. Not 10 % of the capabilities and modular logic - and a complete lack of Azure AD monitoring.

Vendor Response

Knut, first, thank you for the great review. We are happy the software is monitoring your on-premise servers and Azure environment as required. Yes, you are correct there are many ways to accomplish the same task. This can be overwhelming and confusing at times. With powerful software comes complex implementation. We will be working diligently in 2023 to include more tutorials so users can better understand the best method to implement their monitoring and audit compliance requirements.

Replied December 2022

Paul N.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

Simple software with a good amount of features, great price and gets the job done

I have been using this for the past 8-10 years (I don't remember when I first started using it) and it has been a lifesaver for me and my customers. No budget, no infrastructure, no technical experience then no problem. I didn't even read instructions when I started using it, just clicking around and looking at what the product does with the built in templates got me going.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product is as close to plug and play as you can get for a log management software. Some built-in filters get you started and making your own is pretty simple. This software is made for small businesses and small environments. I use it for collecting logs from a few systems and applications then spit out a report for me weekly. It assist me with meeting compliance requirements without the big cost and infrastructure to make it happen. I like how it can help with other features, such as processor utilization, disk drive space and setting up a near-real-time monitor for functions (account lockout, services stopped)

Cons:

If you are looking for something comparable to Splunk or Alienvault OSSIM, this is not it. This software will help you grab logs, parse through it (based on what you want it to look for) and generate a simple report for you. If you need to parse through large amounts of data (6-12 months) and correlate them with each other, it will be a little more work for you and it will take a bit more time.

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

Ease of use, functionality needed, within the budget, ease of deployment and limited infrastructure needed.

Vendor Response

Thank you very much for the reiview!

Replied July 2020

Marshall J.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2023

Corner Bowl Server Manager

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Preconfigured to meet JSIG and NIST compliance. Excellent customer service and support.

Cons:

I would like to see more preconfigured items such as agent staying connected out the box however this is as simple as checking a box on each machine so not really a con

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

Cost, ease of use, customer support, and preconfigured auditing compliance.

Reasons for switching to Corner Bowl Server Manager

Cost, ease of use, customer support, and preconfigured auditing compliance.

Vendor Response

Marshall, Thanks for the review. If you install our latest build, new hosts are now configured to automatically stay connected. Thanks for the option request.

Replied September 2023

Marc D.

Verified reviewer

Packaging and Containers

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

Great features for a reasonable price

We started using another tool many years ago, to collect eventlog information for SOX reporting. Although that system was supposed to have redundancy builtin, we experienced quite some downtime on several occasions so, we decided to install a second, different eventlog collection system for better redundancy and went for Cornerbowl server manager. It’s very stable and is quite low on system resources.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The rich feature set and the reporting are great at this price range. We use another product too that is much more expensive and has less features and with poor reporting.

Cons:

The rich feature set is perhaps also its weakness as it makes it a bit difficult to find things from time to time.

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

We had already used Cornerbowl log manager many years ago, with great success so, the choice was easy.

Reasons for switching to Corner Bowl Server Manager

Application stability, poor reporting since v.5 and high system resource usage, high yearly maintenance costs

Vendor Response

Thank for for the great review Marc. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to find things better.

Replied August 2020

Manny R.

Verified reviewer

Printing

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2022

Great Product

Great

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the ease of setting up the event log consolidation, directory size monitor, and many more I think I have to explore with this product that will be helpful in monitoring our network devices. Honestly, I am learning a lot, not just the features of this product but as a whole this product helps me improved my IT knowledge and skills.

Cons:

Nothing right now. I believe the product is being developed for more features and I am looking forward to see more in the future.

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

Inexpensive and perfectly fits to what we currently need.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review. Please let me know what other features you would like to see.

Replied November 2022

Michael T.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

Server Manager Review

Amazing! Always picks up the phone when help is needed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Server Manager is both a feature and budget friendly application based by a customer-focused support structure. I am able to add monitoring functionality in minutes -- not hours -- and you can literally have the product installed and working in less than 1 hour.

Cons:

Based on the use case of the software for our organization I see no cons at this time.

Reasons for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager

Use of setup, use, and administration along with price

Vendor Response

Michael, thanks for the excellent review.

Replied July 2020

Joseph P.

Verified reviewer

Textiles

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Easy Windows Device Log monitoring solution

So far, good, one issue so far, but this was solved within a day with support. And so far, what data I needed to gather, I have been able to gather with minimal difficulty.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is easy to set up and manage. It is template based, so once you have a good template set up, group your devices, and then mass deploy templates to all the devices. Updating works the same; change something on the template, and it's replicated to all devices. The software makes it easy to centralize logs. Not just Windows logs but text logs, Syslog, etc as well. You can then create custom columns based on regex's to create custom columns to finally create that alert you are looking for or the right report to hand out.

Cons:

There is a learning curve. Documentation is good, support is good, and the beginning templates were really helpful, but there is a learning curve, and there definitely needs to be an investment of time if you are looking for unique data. But if you are looking for basic data ( disk space, CPU utilization, security log consolidation), that is available out of the box. Lots of buttons, with customizability, you need lots of buttons, but still, lots of buttons to push.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the great review!

Replied October 2022

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