Graylog vs VMware Aria Operations for Logs comparison

"We're using the Community edition, but I know that it has really good dashboarding and alerts."

"Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."

"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."

"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."

"I like the correlation and the alerting."

"What I like about Graylog is that it's real-time and you have access to the raw data. So, you ingest it, and you have access to every message and every data item you ingest. You can then build analytics on top of that. You can look at the raw data, and you can do some volumetric estimations, such as how big traffic you have, how many messages of data of a type you have, etc."

"UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."

"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."

"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."

"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."

"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."

"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."

"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."

"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."

"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."

"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."

"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."

"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."

"I would like to see a date and time in the Graylog Grok patterns so that I can save time when searching for a log. I like how the streams and the search query work, but adding a date and time will allow me to pull out a log in a milli-second."

"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."

"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."

"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."

"Over six months, I had two similar issues where searches were performed on field "messages". It exhausted all the memory of the ES node causing an ES crash and a Graylog halt."

"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."

"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."

"The monitoring landscape is getting bigger. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we need more visibility. VMware needs to integrate more related applications and third-party products. That would make it more appealing to an audience beyond the VMware team."

"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."

"The pricing of the solution could be improved."

"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."

"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."

"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."

"The tool is expensive."

"We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive."

"I use the free version of Graylog."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."

"It's open source and free. They have a paid version, but we never looked into that because we never needed the features of the paid version."

"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"

"We're using the Community edition."

"Having paid official support is wise for projects."

"The license cost for any other monitoring tool is too high compared to this product."

"Pricing is good because it is part of the suite package. It comes in a bundle for us."

"I am not sure what the exact cost is. However, I believe the vRealize suite costs $2,500.00 per year."

"I think it is a reasonably priced product."

"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Pricing could always be lower. If it were free, I would be more satisfied."

"The pricing has been updated recently."

"The product's price is reasonable, but when it comes to SQL licensing, it's a bit expensive."