The router is the central part of the logging system. All log messages are sent to the router, which can distribute the messages from there to listeners, such as viewers, text files, binary files, event logs, databases, and more. You would typically have the router installed on a separate machine from the rest of your logging system, but you do not have to. Once installed and configured (the configuration out of the box is usually suitable for most situations), the router runs as a Windows service and has no user interface, as shown in the following screenshot: