This document provides an overview of Central Log Management at the University of Cape Town. It discusses Splunk and the ELK stack for collecting, analyzing, and monitoring machine data from various sources. Splunk is featured for its collection, search, reporting, and alerting capabilities. The ELK stack deployed at UCT includes Logstash to process logs from firewalls and send them to Elasticsearch for storage and querying in Kibana for visualization. Shipper and indexer configurations are shown for ingesting Palo Alto firewall logs into Elasticsearch.