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Graylog Enterprise pros and cons

Vendor: Graylog
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

Graylog Enterprise enhances productivity for development and support teams by directly notifying them of issues.
It provides visibility into infrastructure and security-related events.
The build is stable and requires little maintenance, demonstrating excellent scalability across various deployments.
Real-time logging and full text-based searching make Graylog Enterprise valuable for data analysis and log retrieval.
The software integrates seamlessly with platforms like Slack and OpsGenie to proactively alert users, complemented by versatile search functionality and alerting capabilities.

CONS

Graylog Enterprise lacks sufficient documentation, making it challenging for users to fully understand certain features.
Complexities arise with Graylog Enterprise's scalability, especially when updating or editing multiple nodes.
There is an issue with the infrastructure cost associated with Graylog Enterprise, making it a significant concern for many users.
Many users encounter problems with Elasticsearch, particularly memory exhaustion leading to crashes when searching fields.
Graylog Enterprise's integration process could be enhanced to support a broader range of use cases and improve functionality.
 

Graylog Enterprise Pros review quotes

it_user774168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systémový inženýr DS senior
Nov 16, 2017
Message forwarding through the in-built module.
it_user776922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Engineering Manager
Nov 22, 2017
The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance.
it_user805368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer, DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 21, 2018
This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them.
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JC
Senior Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Jan 23, 2018
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.
ITSecuri4852 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 31, 2018
It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events.
JD
Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 18, 2018
Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching.
it_user995112 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Aug 26, 2019
I am very proud of how very stable the solution is.
it_user1270395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 10, 2020
Open source and user friendly.
CN
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2020
Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful.
reviewer1530855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 2, 2021
I like the correlation and the alerting.
 

Graylog Enterprise Cons review quotes

it_user774168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systémový inženýr DS senior
Nov 16, 2017
The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture.
it_user776922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Engineering Manager
Nov 22, 2017
I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install.
it_user805368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer, DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jan 21, 2018
There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature.​
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JC
Senior Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Jan 23, 2018
Elasticsearch recommendations for tuning could be better. Graylog doesn't have direct support for running the system inside of Kubernetes, so it can be challenging to fill in the gaps and set up containers in a way that is both performant and stable.
ITSecuri4852 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 31, 2018
Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved.
JD
Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 18, 2018
More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great.
it_user995112 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Aug 26, 2019
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.
it_user1270395 - PeerSpot reviewer
Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 10, 2020
Lacks sufficient documentation.
CN
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2020
Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution.
reviewer1530855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 2, 2021
I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog.