We performed a comparison between Graylog and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."
"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."
"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."
"Open source and user friendly."
"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."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The solution's simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility are valuable features as we can integrate everything in vRealize."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"It is very scalable and can handle a large workload."
"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."
"Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved."
"It would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"The infrastructure cost is the main issue. I like the rest. If the infrastructure costs could be lower, it would be fantastic."
"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."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
"Technical support should be improved."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"In vRealize login files, we have limitations regarding log partitions."
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Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and IBM Security QRadar, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar. See our Graylog vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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