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."Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."
"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."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."
"Allowing us to set up alerts and integrate with platforms we already use, such as Slack and OpsGenie to alert users of these errors proactively, is also a very useful feature."
"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."
"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."
"The best feature of Graylog is the Elasticsearch integration. We can integrate and we can run filters, such as an event of interest, and those logs we can send to any SIEM tool or as an analytic. Additionally, there are clear and well-documented implementation instructions on their website to follow if needed."
"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."
"We use the on-premises version of this solution for log analysis and to find details about certain issues."
"I like the interface."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"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."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"More customization is always useful."
"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."
"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 a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."
"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."
"The solution is a very good tool, but it has a lot of limitations. One of the main issues is around how you define your retention policy, for instance, in Log Insight. It doesn't have it. You can't define a log retention policy. You also can't define the destination or location for your logs. All of the logs are in one index or one bucket."
"The solution isn't user-friendly for admins."
"I don't use the solution on a day to day basis, so I'm not sure what specifically can be improved."
"The tool is expensive."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made more user-friendly."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved."
"The tool does not provide a centralized pane for monitoring."
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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, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and IBM Security QRadar, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Wazuh. See our Graylog vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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