Graylog Other Advice

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

I'm pretty happy with the features of the product, but I'm not happy with the infrastructure costs. Feature-wise or from the end user perspective, Graylog is just great.

For small enterprises, it's a good start because they tend to use cheaper products, at least until they grow. Graylog is a good fit there because you can pick a very cheap cloud provider and then just install it there. It is pretty cheap. For big companies that are focused on reliability and availability, Graylog either requires over-provisioning or will cost a lot, which is not ideal. There are better solutions out there in the market, but one important point is that Graylog can be placed in your local data center. Some companies are very suspicious of clouds or have some restrictions from authorities or as per their policies and business model. There are countries, for example, Pakistan, where the network is poor, and if you use the closest data center of any cloud provider, that will most likely be Thailand. For these types of setups, Graylog is pretty much the only choice.

Before Humio, I would have rated it a 10 out of 10. It's a great product, but because of its cost, I would rate it a 9 out of 10.

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

My advice to people considering this solution is to first determine where they can use it. The server sizing depends on the amount of logs generated and where you get the logs from. For example, it it a Kubernetes cluster with a lot of things on it, or just a bunch of VMs, or just a couple of VMs? What's the size of that? Based off of this, you would then decide the server sizing and how big your Elasticsearch needs to be and how scalable it needs to be. Graylog is like ELK Stack. It's very, very resource hungry.

I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten. 

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

I would say that it's definitely worth looking into the extensive search and filtering functionality of Graylog in order to make the most out of it. I would also suggest having a look into the dashboard view functionalities for doing some kind of quick performance overview on the application set. I think the coolest feature of Graylog if you're a developer is that you are able to really narrow down or to specify the search.

For TeamCity, for example, there is specific query language and you can build dashboards and queries there as well, but this feature was kind of limited when I was using it. Even though it was available, I didn't like the feature overly much. I know that there are other similar tools available, but I enjoy using Graylog the most.

I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten because the integration with Python isn't perfect, but if that's fixed in the future, I would say it would be a nine or ten.

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

Overall, I rate the product a six out of ten.

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

I rate Graylog a seven out of ten.

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

Make sure your Elasticsearch cluster is sized right, memory-wise.

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Shivam-Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer Intern at MyKaarma

The solution's community version works well for a lesser workload. It will help if you opt for the solution's enterprise version if you plan to increase the load.

I recommend the solution to others and rate it as a seven.

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

Graylog is straightforward to install and easy to maintain. It also comes with alerting. But one has to be mindful of the support and disadvantages like the index rotation.

On a scale from one to ten, I give Graylog an eight.

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it_user776922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Release Engineering Manager

Start with the defaults. Do not be afraid to start over. Having a test or sandbox to work with to figure out how to create streams, extractors, and inputs is a good way to go. Recommend interacting with MongoDB and Elasticsearch from the command line, if you have the time; nothing deep. Knowing the underlying CLI's may help you if you need to understand how or why something may not line up correctly.

I would consider myself Graylog2's number one fan or at least a big advocate of the utility of this product. Step one in any application inception should begin with application messaging, and couple that with Graylog2, and you will cover many bases of insight and compliance right out of the gate. 

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JD
Technology Consultant

Thoroughly read the Graylog documentation and consider Enterprise support if you have atypical needs or setup requirements.

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AN
Head of Infrastructure

In the next version I would perhaps like to see less overlapping in in the interface. Some users feel that it is still very rigid and boxy. Pretty old school. So a more user-friendly interface with less overlapping in the structures would be great. I rate this solution 9.5 out of 10.

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it_user774168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systémový inženýr DS senior

Do not give up. Look forward and good luck. The worst phase was the planning one, so I would offer this advice: Don't underestimate anything. 

Graylog is worth the given effort.

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

I would definitely recommend Graylog to others who are interested in using it.

At this point with the features that I have used, I would rate Graylog a ten out of ten.

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

Send all logs to Graylog instead of just your errors. This will make it easier to investigate problems.

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

Just go ahead with the product. 

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

I will say that if you are using this, then explore all the features. You will find this like a swiss army knife.

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

This is a good product and I would rate it an eight out of 10. 

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

I would recommend this solution to others. It is for small and medium organizations.

I would rate it a seven out of 10.

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