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    Graylog

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AGraylog, headquartered in Houston, offers their eponymous platform for centralized log management that helps users find meaning in data faster so as to take action immediately. Graylog is available via Enterprise and Cloud plans, but also has a Small Business Plan, and an Open (free) plan with limited features.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    Graylog
    Chose Graylog
    Azure Monitor is not exactly what I mean, but I couldn't find Azure Application Insights. Anyway, for a large organization, Azure makes more sense than using Graylog because a lot of logging will already be inside Azure. And you don't want to have two "central" logging …
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    Chose Graylog
    We use the free edition, because it is free and open source. We evaluated numerous other products, but we decided to go down the Graylog track because of initial costs. While the competition (Splunk, AlienVault, etc.) are very good products and come highly recommended, it …
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    Chose Graylog
    In terms of log aggregation, the free product fully stacks up with the competitors listed. Full control over the data ingests for flexible configuration. Graylog even better on that front than AlienVault USM because you cannot configure the variable mapping. We haven't used …
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    Chose Graylog
    Graylog does what other similar products that cost more do, but the more expansive one typically has more features or are multiple products wrapped in one. We went with Graylog because it does everything we need it too, and the price was less than other and fit into our budget. …
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    Chose Graylog
    We previously used Syslog(-ng) and considered moving to the Logstash with Kibana as part of the standard ELK stack as we are consumers of ELK in other scenarios, but we determined that maintaining a distributed Graylog system was going to require less work overtime for our main …
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    Chose Graylog
    Graylog provides some great functionality for free. There are some more premium products that would handle more logs and would be a little easier to configure.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Graylog
    Small Businesses
    SolarWinds Papertrail
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Loggly
    Score5.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Graylog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.6
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Graylog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Graylog
    For small companies, Graylog is the best solution possible. It's easy to configure and "just works." Above everything else, it's free. The only thing I hold against it is the fact that it's Linux-based. [This] makes sense because Elasticsearch is Linux-based. But Linux adds a layer of complexity that we don't need for something basic as a logging server. I'm pretty sure that we would have had a logging server years earlier if I had to convince quite a few decision-making people to go ahead with it anyway.
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    Pros
    Graylog
    • Graylog does a great job of its core function: log aggregation, retention, and searching.
    • Graylog has a very flexible configuration. The backend for storage is Elasticsearch and MongoDB is used to store the configuration. You have to option to make your configuration as simple as possible by storing everything on one box, or you can scale everything out horizontally by using a cluster of Elasticsearch nodes and MongoDB servers with several Graylog servers pointed to all the necessary nodes.
    • Graylog does a good job of abstracting away a fair portion of Elasticsearch index management (sharding, creation, deletion, rotation, etc).
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    Cons
    Graylog
    • Support for more log sources
    • Event alerts/emails - Some cases where unable to separate data from multiple clients, and no easy fix
    • API - Limits results to 10,000 and can cause server to lockup on queries that exceed the limit
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    Support Rating
    Graylog
    Community support does not give simple straightforward answers; simply search up Graylog Issues and look at some of the responses on the forums. The documentation is your only hope if you are on the free version, as you can NOT purchase only support. The few times I have worked with Graylog Enterprise support they were great though.
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    Graylog
    In terms of log aggregation, the free product fully stacks up with the competitors listed. Full control over the data ingests for flexible configuration. Graylog even better on that front than AlienVault USM because you cannot configure the variable mapping. We haven't used the threat exchange stuff or correlation. But with regex searches, we have created function dashboards that show threat theater pictures of our network based on logs from our firewall.
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    Return on Investment
    Graylog
    • Graylog is just less expensive than some other options which meant it fit into our budget otherwise we might not be able to justify a higher cost.
    • Being able to track issues that we normally couldn't track using other tools is a bonus to help us know of any issues we have and can fix before an outage or failure that could potentially cost money.
    • We have had to spend more time than I would like to understand and customize Graylog which has taken time away from other tasks and projects.
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