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10,226 views|8,623 comparisons
94% willing to recommend
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1,354 views|944 comparisons
90% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Graylog and Logz.io 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Graylog vs. Logz.io Report (Updated: April 2024).
771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"We're using the Community edition, but I know that it has really good dashboarding and alerts.""Open source and user friendly.""I am very proud of how very stable the solution is.""The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface.""This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them.""UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead.""The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance.""The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."

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"InsightOne is the main reason why we use LogMeIn. This is mostly because of log data that we are pushing tools and logs in general.""We use the product for log collection and monitoring.""The other nice thing about Logz.io is their team. When it comes to onboarding, their support is incredibly proactive. They bring the brand experience from a customer services perspective because their team is always there to help you refine filters and tweak dashboards. That is really a useful thing to have. Their engagement is really supportive.""The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable.""It is massively useful and great for testing. We can just go, find logs, and attach them easily. It has a very quick lookup. Whereas, before we would have to go, dig around, and find the server that the logs were connected to, then go to the server, download the log, and attach it. Now, we can just go straight to this solution, type in the log ID and server ID, and obtain the information that we want.""The tool is simple to setup where it is just plug and play. The tool is reliable and we never had any performance issues.""The visualizations in Kibana are the most valuable feature. It's much more convenient to have a visualization of logs. We can see status really clearly and very fast, with just a couple of clicks.""We use the tool to track the dev and production environment."

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Cons
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great.""I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install.""I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog.""With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license.""Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution.""I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex.""We ran into problems with Elasticsearch throwing a circuit-breaking exception due to field data size being too large. It turned out that the heap size directly impacted this size in a high-throughput environment, causing unexplained instability in Graylog. We were able to troubleshoot on the Elasticsearch size, but we should have been able to reference some minimum requirements for Graylog to know that our settings weren't sufficient.""Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."

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"I would like granularity on alerting so we can get tentative alerts and major alerts, then break it down between the two.""The solution needs to improve its data retention. It should be greater than seven days. The product needs to improve its documentation as well.""I would like them to improve how they manage releases. Some of our integrations integrate specifically with set versions. Logz.io occasionally releases an update that might break that integration. On one occasion, we found out a little bit too late, then we had to roll it back.""The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective.""When it comes to reducing our troubleshooting time, it depends. When there are no bugs in Logz.io, it reduces troubleshooting by 5 to 10 percent. When there are bugs, it increases our troubleshooting time by 200 percent or more.""The solution needs to expand its access control and make it accessible through API.""The price can be cheaper and they should have better monitoring.""Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Having paid official support is wise for projects."
  • "I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."
  • "If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"
  • "​You get a lot out-of-the-box with the non-enterprise version, so give it a try first."
  • "Consider Enterprise support if you have atypical needs or setup requirements.​"
  • "I use the free version of Graylog."
  • "It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
  • "We're using the Community edition."
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  • "You pay for what you need, and that is a good model. They are also quite happy to talk to you about your uses and your use case. They will even go as far as suggesting things that you don't need to do in order to save you money. At one point, I was quite surprised at how cheap it could be if we wanted it to be or how much they would help us manage our costs."
  • "At the time it was set up, we thought Logz.io was very reasonable for what we were getting in terms of how much time and hosting costs it was saving us, because you don't have to run the servers for it anymore."
  • "The tool is an open source product."
  • "The product is a little expensive."
  • "The product's pricing is cheaper than other solutions."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product is scalable. The solution is stable.
    Top Answer:We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive.
    Top Answer:Since it's a free tool, I don't have much to say. Troubleshooting is important to me. The initial setup is complex. I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and… more »
    Top Answer:The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable.
    Top Answer:The product is a little expensive. We're pushing 17 TB. It costs us one and a half million dollars a year.
    Top Answer:Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle. The product must add some AI capabilities to learn from previous behaviors. Instead of us setting thresholds, the tool should learn the… more »
    Ranking
    11th
    out of 95 in Log Management
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    Rating
    7.3
    24th
    out of 95 in Log Management
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    1,354
    Comparisons
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    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    314
    Rating
    8.4
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    Also Known As
    Graylog2
    Logz
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    Overview

    Graylog is purpose-built to deliver the best log collection, storage, enrichment, and analysis. Graylog is:

    • Considerably faster analysis speeds.
    • More robust and easier-to-use analysis platform.
    • Simpler administration and infrastructure management.
    • Lower cost than alternatives.
    • Full-scale customer service.
    • No expensive training or tool experts required.

    Logz.io is a leading cloud-native observability platform that enables engineers to use the best open source tools in the market without the complexity of operating, managing, and scaling them. Logz.io offers four products: Log Management built on ELK, Infrastructure Monitoring based on Prometheus, Distributed Tracing based on Jaeger, and an ELK-based Cloud SIEM. These are offered as fully managed, integrated cloud services designed to help engineers monitor, troubleshoot and secure their distributed cloud workloads more effectively. Engineering driven companies like Siemens, Unity and ZipRecruiter use Logz.io to simplify monitoring and security workflows, increasing developer productivity, reducing time to resolve issues, and increasing the performance and security of their mission-critical applications.

    Sample Customers
    Blue Cross Blue Shield, eBay, Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP, King.com, Twilio, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
    Dish Network, The Economist, Forbes, Holler, Kenshoo, OneSpan, Siemens, Sisense, Unity, ZipRecruiter
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Government8%
    Educational Organization7%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider29%
    Insurance Company14%
    Healthcare Company14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise50%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise57%
    Buyer's Guide
    Graylog vs. Logz.io
    April 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Graylog vs. Logz.io and other solutions. Updated: April 2024.
    771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while Logz.io is ranked 24th in Log Management with 8 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while Logz.io is rated 8.2. 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 Logz.io writes "The solution is a consistent logging platform that provides excellent query mechanisms". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, whereas Logz.io is most compared with Datadog, Wazuh, Coralogix, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Graylog vs. Logz.io report.

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