Sonicwall - Better visibility

I've been a long time Sonicwall user and have had great results over the years with them. One area that still frustrates me however is visibility into what is happening on the network and into what it is doing.

Many years ago (late 1990's) I used to work with Checkpoint firewalls and one of the things I loved about those was the ability to enable full logging and search and sort things in near real time in the logs. If for instance we became aware that there was a security problem but weren't clear of the details, we could quickly look at everything moving trough the network and drill down on types of traffic, ports, IP's etc and perform actions right from the logs. There was just far more depth there and it was easy to use.

In short we could find the source of problems very quickly, often before they turned into problems.

The Sonicwall's can do virtually all the same functions and often in an easier to manage way and at a very affordable price. But I've always felt sort of blind when managing them. You just can't get the same kind of detail out of the logs even with Analyzer or GMS.  

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone know of any third party tools that might help get better visibility into these things?