Corner Bowl Server Manager
About Corner Bowl Server Manager
Corner Bowl Server Manager Pricing
1 Node: $20 10 Nodes: $120 100 Nodes: $640 500 Nodes: $2,120
Starting price:
$132.00 one time
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for Corner Bowl Server Manager
1 - 5 of 40 Reviews
Asaf
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2021
Reliable & Efficient
Excellent High Tier software. Does exactly what we need and more. Allows reliable log and SIEM monitoring for security and compliance with custom options including retention. Feature requests are taken into consideration most of the time. Support is outstanding.
PROSInstallation and setup was very fast. It's very reliable and runs smoothly on the server. Support team is super responsive, attentive and extremely professional. The first setup is easy with excellent guidance from the team over the phone and/or remote support. UI is very easy to navigate after a short period of time.
CONSMissing custom range filtering by date for logs.
Reason for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager
The previous product we tried was too heavy on our system and consumed high cpu and memory.
Reasons for switching to Corner Bowl Server Manager
The previous product we tried was too heavy on our system and consumed high cpu and memory.
Vendor Response
Thanks so much for the great review. To view data in a custom range create a report then when configuring the report specify the custom date range to include in the report from the Date Range tab.
Replied November 2021
Nathan
Farming, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
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.
PROSThe 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.
CONSIt 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.
Reason 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
Randy
Government Administration, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed January 2022
Fair product that needs refinement
It seems to provide some alerting, but setup is difficult.
PROSGeneral log monitoring. Product pricing was good.
CONSThe interface is not intuitive. Searching is difficult. Support is non-existent.
Reason for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager
Pricing with the expectation of minimal log management.
Vendor Response
I am so sorry to hear you say support is non-existent. I just checked our support email history for the last two years and I do not have a single request from anyone at your organization for support. For others reading, the number on complement we receive is our excellent support. We offer email and phone support M-F 8-6 Mountain Time. We do not outsource our support. If you are using the latest version, searching has been greatly enhanced. If you are unable to search the logs please contact us and we can do a remote session to help resolve any issues you might have.
Replied January 2022
Karim
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Great SIEM / Monitoring / Log collection / Alerting solution
It's an all-in-one solution! Cornerbowl provides supports us with Regulatory and Alerting.
CONSCurrently testing with SQLlite. There is a possibility that we may have to move to MS SQL, which we'll need a license for.
Reason for choosing Corner Bowl Server Manager
Cornerbowl met our company requirements and was financially attractive in comparison to other solutions
Vendor Response
Karmin, thanks for the great review. We just discovered the issue with Sqlite throwing database lock issues and have released a fix! Sqlite cannot process multiple transactions from different threads.
Replied March 2024
Knut Kristan
Publishing, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
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.
PROSWe 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.
CONSThis 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!)
Reason 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