We performed a comparison between Graylog and syslog-ng based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."
"Storing logs in Elasticsearch means log retrieval is extremely fast, and full text search is available by default."
"Everything stands out as valuable, including the fact that I can quantify and qualify the logs, create pipelines and process the logs in any way I like, and create charts or data maps."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."
"Open source and user friendly."
"I like the correlation and the alerting."
"The ability to extract and store the logs is the most valuable feature of syslog-ng."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the use of compound search for searching logs at a specific time, by a specific user, or specific behavior."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"Syslog-ng has a separate config file in addition to the core configuration."
"Syslog-ng provides easy access to all my logs. It helps me show managers and other clients precisely where an incident occurred. I also like it because you can integrate syslog-ng with multiple solutions to allow real-time monitoring."
"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."
"Graylog could improve the process of creating rules. We have to create them manually by doing parses and applying them. Other SIEM solutions have basic rules and you can create and get more events of interest."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."
"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."
"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."
"I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."
"Lacks sufficient documentation."
"It's hard to find people who know how to use syslog-ng. I often find problems with configurations, and solutions aren't integrated correctly with syslog-ng. For example, there might be data with extra decimals, or the collector agents are incorrectly named. It isn't a problem with the solution; it's a lack of professionals."
"There is room for improvement in terms of observability."
"There is always the potential for additional integration and protocol extensions."
"Syslog-ng has built-in features that we can use to create alerts for a SIEM solution. It isn't a true SIEM solution, but it's sufficient for the time being."
"The filtering has room for improvement."
Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 18th in Log Management with 5 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. 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 syslog-ng writes "It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial product in some cases". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Elastic Security, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Grafana Loki, Logstash, Elastic Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Graylog vs. syslog-ng report.
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