Graylog Initial Setup

Andrey Mostovykh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We have top-level engineers, and we didn't have any problems at all, but any random guy could also set it up. It involved the magic of regular Linux commands. It was pretty easy. I would rate it a five out of five in terms of the ease of the setup. It's great.

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Peter Malaty - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at TechStyle Fashion Group

It really depends. If you're going to slap Graylog into a very small environment and do a standalone instance, it's super easy and straightforward. You have to install Mongo, Elasticsearch, and Graylog and connect them to each other, which is super simple. There are tons of easy tutorials online available to help you do that. 

However, if you want to set up a highly scalable cluster, things will get a little bit complex. It's still very manageable, but it's definitely complex.

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Jonas Leeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer & Co-Founder at Plexify GmbH

I would say the initial setup is quite straightforward, but it's pretty straightforward for any kind of logging tool out there. The difference is in how you integrate it into the project, but I don't think there's much of a difference between all of the tools, at least from my perspective. 

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Nicolae CIornii - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Officer at BC Energbank S.A.

The initial setup was complex. The deployment process involved server configuration, setting up alerts, and configuring the system. When upgrading from version 4.2 to 5.1, the configuration took some time.

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Lokesh Puthalapattu - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Marketing Specialist II at Harman International

We had some struggles with the initial setup of Graylog. However, after using the support it works fine.

I rate the initial setup of Graylog a four out of five.

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JC
Senior Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Set up in Kubernetes; not complex once the configuration is right.

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Shivam-Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer Intern at MyKaarma

The solution's initial setup is easy. The deployment process for the new version takes 10-15 days.

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CN
Senior DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Graylog is quite easy to set up. As it comes with a prepackaged installation file, it's not complex to install and takes one to three days to deploy. If you have to study the documentation and then implement it, I think you can do it within a week.

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it_user776922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Engineering Manager

This was the first multi-node installation that I laid out. It seems to be running, and I did not find it overly complicated. I have Apache distributed big data experience, and have used Cloudera within that scope. Having Linux expertise, Apache, Tomcat, REST, and Java experiences may have reduce the complexity. 

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JD
Technology Consultant

Our setup was not straightforward. We opted to create a Docker swarm instance, hosting three Graylog nodes, Nginx for SSL/TLS offloading, and three MongoDB nodes (in a replica set). Then, we installed a three node Elasticsearch cluster on RHEL 7 virtual machines. The majority of the configuration was done through Docker compose.

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AN
Head of Infrastructure

The initial setup was really complex because I did it myself. I had no support and I didn't understand the whole ecosystem. The first deployment took about a month because I had to figure out exactly what I'm capturing, and how to query it afterwards. I also had to manage the clientele, client installations, and the like. After a month or so I had an overall view of everything.

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it_user774168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systémový inženýr DS senior

We did not had any experience with Graylog or its components before this project. We had luck in planning phase, the environment was sized properly to its purpose. 

As Graylog also needs other applications/DB's to run, implementation of each component was a separate challenge, as we are not using the default configuration.

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BK
Network Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward.

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it_user776928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Java Software Developer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It was straightforward.

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JM
IT Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward.

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it_user805368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer, DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It was pretty straightforward.

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AT
Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was relatively straightforward. I was able to deploy it myself in a couple of days. For now, I'm the only user. I know it can be scaled for free for up to five users and I'll test that soon. 

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RF
Systems Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It was easy to set up. 

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