What is Graylog?

Graylog is a powerful Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution and log analytics platform that centralizes, secures, and monitors machine-generated data across diverse sources. Whether used for cybersecurity, IT operations, or compliance, Graylog empowers teams with actionable insights through fast search, alerting, and visualization capabilities.

Core Security and Operational Capabilities

Graylog delivers critical capabilities to support your security posture and IT operations:

  • Data aggregation and enrichment

  • Real-time threat detection and alerting

  • Security analytics and dashboards

  • Forensic and incident investigation

  • User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)

  • IT compliance reporting

  • Threat intelligence integration

  • Event correlation and monitoring

Graylog Solutions

Each Graylog product is tailored to meet specific use cases:

Graylog Open

Free and open-source, Graylog Open offers centralized log management: collect, parse, enrich, and analyze data across environments. It’s backed by a vibrant community driving continuous innovation.

Graylog Enterprise

Built for scale, Graylog Enterprise extends Graylog Open with advanced features like correlation, archiving, reporting, and premium support. Available for both self-managed and cloud deployments.

Graylog Security

A focused TDIR (threat detection, investigation, and response) solution, Graylog Security enhances Enterprise with dedicated features for cybersecurity teams. It supports compliance, rapid detection, and root-cause analysis.

Graylog Cloud

Graylog Cloud delivers Graylog Enterprise as a fully managed, scalable SaaS offering. It reduces overhead, accelerates deployment, and ensures always up-to-date log management without compromising control or security.

Graylog Illuminate

Graylog Illuminate enriches log data through ready-to-use content packs—including parsing rules, pipelines, and lookup tables—that normalize data to Graylog’s schema (GIM), enabling streamlined analysis across common log sources. Included with Enterprise and Security, no extra license needed.

Graylog API Security

Graylog API Security provides in-depth visibility into API behavior to detect attacks, leaks, and other threats to your APIs. It discovers your APIs and the risks from their use by legitimate customers, malicious attackers, partners, and insiders.

Graylog Core Features

Graylog’s core functionality is underpinned by robust building blocks:

  • Streams: Route, tag, and filter logs in real-time to organize and control data flow and access.

  • Search: Intuitive UI with powerful queries and time-range filters for immediate log analysis.

  • Dashboards: Create custom visualizations—charts, graphs, KPIs—with role-based access control.

  • Alerts: Triggered by configurable event definitions, supporting real-time and historical monitoring.

  • Indexing: Define retention, rotation, and sharding policies to manage storage with precision.

  • Inputs: Define how and from where Graylog receives data—whether from syslog, GELF, Beats, or custom sources—allowing flexible configuration for various log types and protocols.

  • Pipelines: Apply logic for message enrichment, routing, or transformation as logs flow in.

Get Started with Graylog

Deploy Graylog in a way that fits your environment, then use the intuitive web interface to start collecting, searching, and analyzing log data in minutes. With flexible architecture and guided setup, Graylog makes it easy to gain visibility and control over your data from day one.

1. Plan Your Deployment

Evaluate your infrastructure scale and use case to design an architecture—ranging from single-node setups to distributed clusters.

2. Install the Platform

Follow Graylog’s comprehensive documentation to install on your preferred environment.

3. Explore the Interface

Leverage the intuitive web interface to configure sources, run searches, build dashboards, and manage events and alerts with ease.