We performed a comparison between Graylog and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Graylog stands out with its exceptional search functions, seamless integration with Elasticsearch, and real-time data access. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Graylog could benefit from additional customization options and an improved rule-creation process. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Graylog's customer service is generally well-regarded, with reviewers noting effective solutions and satisfactory experiences. While response times may differ, Graylog's support is considered superior compared to that of other products. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Some Graylog users said the setup was easy. Other reviewers faced challenges, but these were easily resolved with help from the vendor’s support staff. Graylog is easier to set up in smaller environments, but it could get complicated in large clusters. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Graylog offers an enterprise edition and an open-source option with a daily capacity restriction. Some users said that data costs can be expensive. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Graylog can offer some cost savings. The precise ROI may vary depending on the organization’s size and use case. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"We have scaled from a single machine installation (a VM with a Graylog + ES + MongoDB) to (2 Graylog + 2 ES + 3 MongoDB). This was done smoothly with a minimal impact on logging."
"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."
"We're using the Community edition, but I know that it has really good dashboarding and alerts."
"I like the correlation and the alerting."
"We run a containerized microservices environment. Being able to set up streams and search for errors and anomalies across hundreds of containers is why a log aggregation platform like Graylog is valuable to us."
"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."
"UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."
"If they support a solution, it is easy to do an integration."
"Its cost-effectiveness is the most valuable aspect."
"Wazuh's logging features integrate seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services. There are also Wazuh agent configurations for different use cases, like vulnerability scanning, host-based intrusion detection, and file integrity monitoring."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The main thing I like about it is that it has an EDR."
"Wazuh offers an enhanced HDR version that outperforms its competitors."
"Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved."
"Lacks sufficient documentation."
"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."
"More customization is always useful."
"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."
"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature."
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"The implementation is very complex."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Graylog writes "Great detailed search features and easy Java integration, but needs improvement in integration with Python". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, syslog-ng, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Security, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and IBM Security QRadar. See our Graylog vs. Wazuh report.
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