Sentinel allows you to monitor and manage a variety of functions. Some of the main functions include:
Real-time views of large streams of events
Reporting capabilities based on real-time and historical events, through the Web interface
Managing users and what they are able to see and do by permission assignment
Managing access to events for different users
Organizing events into incidents for efficient response management and tracking
Detecting patterns in events and streams of events
An intuitive and flexible rule-based language for correlation
Rules compiled for high performance
Embedded Sentinel database, based on the open source PostgreSQL database engine
Web-based search tool to quickly search for strings and patterns within the Sentinel event database
Web-based client application launch and installation
Sentinel processes communicate with each other through message-oriented middleware (MOM).