Send reports to HR, Department Managers, Employees, and IT by email attachment (PDF, Word, HTML, CSV or Text) or via a secure web portal (the Vantage Web Module).

Automate!

Automate the entire log import and reporting process.

New in Vantage 3.0

Vantage 3.0 draws on two decades?of log analysis experience to bring unparalleled flexibility when it comes to defining your log reporting process.

WebSpy Vantage 3.0 Now Available

The development team at Fastvue have been hard at work over the past year updating WebSpy Vantage for the latest .NET Framework, improving performance, integrating Fastvue’s innovative Site Clean engine, and more!

New Features in WebSpy Vantage 3.0

The following major features have been introduced in WebSpy Vantage 3.0.

Updated User Interface

The most noticeable change is that WebSpy Vantage 3.0 and the Web Module have received an updated look and feel. General navigation remains the same, so the experience is very familiar if you’re used to v2.2. We hope you like it!

Viewing a report in the WebSpy Vantage Web Module.

Analyzing data on the Analysis tab in WebSpy Vantage.

Fastvue Site Clean Integration

A common requirement when reporting on web-based log files, such as those from a proxy server or web gateway, is to view a clean list of websites that represent what people actually browsed, rather than showing every background CDN site or advertising widget.

WebSpy Vantage 3.0 integrates the Fastvue Site Clean engine?that cleans a majority of web traffic. Replace any Site Domain?columns in your report templates with the Origin Domain?summary to see the results. Results are improved dramatically if your log files contain referrer URLs.

Built for .NET 4.6

WebSpy Vantage is now compiled for the .NET 4.6 framework, which brings with it a range of performance benefits including more efficient memory management and faster import and reporting speeds.

Performance

In addition to the performance improvements through the upgraded .NET framework, the reports engine is now up to 90% faster in certain reporting situations. The improvement is most notable when publishing reports to the Web Module ‘for each manager’ in your organization, or ‘for each group’ (departments, offices etc.), where the number of groups are in the hundreds.

New Report Templates

A new range of report templates have been added for the following log file formats:

Palo Alto Networks (both Threat/URL and Traffic logs)
Fortinet
WatchGuard
McAfee Web Gateway
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER
Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA – previously IronPort)

There are also new templates for?any ‘web’? based formats (any supported log file that contain URLs, Usernames and Timestamps).

Vantage 2.2 users: After using the migration wizard to copy your settings from Vantage 2.2, you will not have these new templates but you can open them manually.?Go to the Upgrading Existing Installations?tab on our Getting Started page,?for further instructions on upgrading from 2.2 to 3.0, including loading the new templates and aliases.

SCP / SFTP importing

Log files can now be directly imported over SCP / SFTP. Specify the server, path, port and file mask, along with either a username and password, or a username, identity file and passphrase. Also supports Gzip over SFTP.

Improved Organization Import from LDAP

Several improvements have been made to the Import Organization from LDAP?wizard to make?mapping log data to Active Directory objects easier.

You can now import from the ‘default domain controller’, rather than a hard-set server name or IP making the import more fault tolerant to changes in your infrastructure.

The new ‘Use the default domain controller’ option.

The ‘User Details’ page now has an ‘Active Directory Defaults’ option that imports the most common username formats both with and without domain prefixes accounting for most log analysis situations. Previously you needed to know?how usernames were represented in your log file (raw login name, domain\username, domain\username@auth etc.), and prefix/suffix the appropriate?text around the username. This change removes that requirement so it all ‘just works’ the first time around for most cases. If you need to make any adjustments to match AD users to your?log data, click the?Custom?option to change the attributes imported along with and prefix/suffix options.

The new ‘Use Active Directory Defaults’ option.

Users that do not belong to a group are now imported into an ‘Ungrouped’ group. This lets you easily see users that?do not have a ‘department’ or ‘office’?configured in Active Directory, and correct those issues if necessary. Previously, users that did not have a group configured would not be imported or reported on, unless you removed the group from the Grouping page.

Importing and Viewing Ungroups Users.

Note: WebSpy Vantage Ultimate’s licensing is based on the number of users imported. If you have a large number of users that do not belong to one of your configured groups, this change will impact the total number of users imported. You can?disable this behavior on the ‘Grouping’ page of the Import Organization wizard.

URL?Parsing Supports?New?Generic Top Level Domains (new gTLDs)

With new Generic Top Level Domains (New gTLDs) continually being released (think, .ninja, .guru, .walmart, .google etc.), parsing URLs into domains, sub-domains and TLDs required a new approach.

WebSpy Vantage now uses the list of public suffixes?published by publicsuffix.org?to?correctly parse URLs into domain components.

WebSpy Vantage automatically?receives updates?to the public suffixes list behind the scenes.

Other Notable Improvements and Fixes in WebSpy Vantage 3.0

In addition to new features, the following notable improvements have been made.

Resuming Import from Gzip Files

Vantage 3.0 now remembers its position when importing logs within gzip files and can resume from that position if the import is stopped, or if the log file is appended to.

Improved Event Log Support

The underlying technology and user interface for importing Windows Event Logs has been updated, streamlining the process of importing all, or selected event logs from one or many machines.

PDF Report Fixes

The PDF report engine has also received an update fixing many PDF generation errors in the process.

Optimized for Internet?Usage Reporting

WebSpy Vantage is a generic log analysis application, but we’ve included?some?powerful?features to make Internet?usage reporting simple and useful.

Site Clean

Identify real websites visited. Not every CDN, ad, or background tracking pixel (via Fastvue Site Clean).

Active Directory / LDAP Integration

Match authenticated firewall log data to real users in Active Directory.

Secure Access

Secure access to sensitive reports using the Vantage Web Module – a?secure intranet portal where HR, IT, managers, and employees?can view reports they have permission to view.

Reports the way you want them.

Vantage’s powerful report template designer puts you in full control over your report content.

Aliases. Because logs are ugly.

WebSpy Vantage’s Aliasing system lets you group IPs into subnets, users into departments, error codes into descriptions, user agents into applications and more! Display these aliased values in your report content, use them in filters, or split reports into multiple reports.

IP Addresses into Subnets

Usernames into Departments

User Agents into Applications

Active Directory / LDAP Integration

Utilize Active Directory information to group people and managers by departments, offices, OUs.

Map People to Web Traffic

Vantage imports users from your directory server and maps them to authenticated usernames in your log files.

Group Users

Group and report on users by AD attributes such as Departments, Offices and Companies, or OU Containers.

Reports for Managers

Utilize the manager/subordinate hierarchy in Active Directory to create and distribute reports to managers.

Deliver

Email reports to the intended recipients, or provide secure web-based access to reports via the Vantage Web Module.

Automate

Automate the entire reporting process from importing logs, synchronising with Active Directory and resolving IPs, to delivering reports.

No?Data Import Limits

Import as much data as your hard drives can store, from over 200 common network devices.

Select from over 200 supported log file formats.

See All Supported Log Files

Text Logs

Import text logs, compressed or uncompressed, from local or networked folders, FTP, and SCP / SFTP.

Windows Event Logs

Import Windows Event Logs directly from servers and workstations in your network.

Database Logs

Import logs?from SQL databases (Microsoft ISA, TMG, IIS, TrendMicro, ClearSwift and Bloxx)

Trusted by Great Companies Worldwide

WebSpy Vantage is used by thousands of companies, educational institutions and government organisations across almost every industry and?continent (still waiting on Antartica…)

“I recommend Vantage to any organization that is looking to understand how their Internet resources are being used.”

Jonathan Humphrey (IT Director), Codemasters

“Without WebSpy, we would literally be poking around in the dark…”

Etienne Liebetrau, Woolworths

“It’s always a pleasure to talk to people who are nice, kind, polite, caring and knowledgeable. I think the whole support team at Fastvue and WebSpy fit that bill. As I’ve stated before, you are my favorite vendor and support team to deal with. ?You care and you stand behind your products. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

Karla Marciszewski (Network Security Specialist), Cuyahoga County

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