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Check Point Security Management vs Graylog Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 15, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Check Point Security Manage...
Ranking in Log Management
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (11th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) (3rd)
Graylog Enterprise
Ranking in Log Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Check Point Security Management is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Graylog Enterprise is 2.8%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Graylog Enterprise2.8%
Check Point Security Management0.9%
Other96.3%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

RL
TI at a security firm with 51-200 employees
Simplified threat detection and reduced policy deployment time
The standout features of Check Point Security Management are unified policy management, real-time visibility, and automation capabilities, making it a powerful tool for security management. Consistency across environments with Check Point Security Management helps me ensure that instead of maintaining separate rules for firewalls, cloud workloads, and data centers, we apply one unified policy that covers them all. This reduces misconfigurations and ensures compliance, proving to be a time-saver because rolling out a new rule or updating an existing one takes minutes, not hours, because it is propagated everywhere automatically. Automation is one of the most valuable aspects of Check Point Security Management, and it often does not get enough attention compared to headline features like unified policies or visibility. With policy automation, routine tasks such as rule creation, compliance checks, or policy updates can be automated, reducing human error and saving hours of manual work. Check Point Security Management has simplified administration in my organization because instead of juggling multiple consoles, everything is managed from a single pane of glass. This has reduced complexity and saved significant time for our IT team, improving our operational efficiency. For a policy update, I used to spend two or three hours across multiple consoles. Now, with unified management in Check Point Security Management, it takes thirty to forty minutes, resulting in about a seventy percent reduction in effort, greatly boosting productivity.
NC
Security Officer at JSC "Moldtelecom" S.A.
Log analysis has become clearer and faster but visualization and extensibility still need work
The problem was with the complexity and the cost to add extensions. We found this very expensive to buy another version with additional features. I think that Graylog Enterprise does not have customizable dashboards. I did not see them in Graylog Enterprise because most of the time we used the open source free version, which is limited. I think Graylog Enterprise should improve some things that they have in the paid version and perhaps provide users with a menu that gives examples of parsing logs and draws graphics so that people do not need to improve another system such as Grafana. This would be interesting. When it comes to functionalities, I found the log management in Graylog Enterprise acceptable. It is very simple to use and to collect logs. It has support for different protocols and different ports, and the sidecar is easy to use. However, in visualization, I think it needs to be much better.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Check Point Security Management has a great feature that allows you to automate the request of the automated server."
"All limitations above can be solved with Check Point Management API."
"The most valuable feature for me is Identity Awareness."
"Check Point Security Management has positively impacted my organization, with one benefit being that I create one security management for controlling any gateways."
"Check Point Security Management has improved our organization because all corporate firewalls can be managed with a single interface."
"The tool is cost-effective."
"Check Point management is one of the most complete solutions for managing Check Point Firewall appliances."
"Check Point Security Management has simplified administration in my organization because instead of juggling multiple consoles, everything is managed from a single pane of glass, which has reduced complexity and saved significant time for our IT team, improving our operational efficiency."
"Graylog is valuable because it bridges technical knowledge to non-technical teams, presenting complex backend processes in a simple timeline."
"The product does all the things it must do very well."
"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."
"The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"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."
"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."
"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."
"Message forwarding through the in-built module."
 

Cons

"My experience with Check Point Security Management's customer support in the past was not the best."
"The L1/L2 agents seem inexperienced. Cases often need to be escalated."
"You need some technical expertise to use the solution. I don't think it's accessible to the typical end-user. You need to access the box and use some command lines or the web interface. It would be nice to have a user-friendly dashboard and comprehensive reporting."
"Check Point Security Management could be improved by enhancing its user interface, expanding third-party integrations, and refining reports and automation capabilities to make it more intuitive and scalable for diverse enterprise environments."
"We sometimes have trouble with the performance of the solution. Maybe some performance tuning options could be added in a future release. There should be more visibility about which blade in your firewall is causing the latency."
"I would like this solution to be integrated directly into the Cluster XL equipment."
"Some costs are ridiculously high."
"It sometimes blocks safe sites when I am researching, affecting the overall output and wasting time."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog. The report is plain, they could be improved."
"For Python developers, it would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community."
"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."
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."
"Over six months, I had two similar issues where searches were performed on field "messages". It exhausted all the memory of the ES node causing an ES crash and a Graylog halt."
"The documentation for Graylog Enterprise can be improved, as this has been a pain point."
"The support from the Graylog community is helpful, but they can do better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing can be estimated around 3 or 4 out of 10 in terms of expense."
"This product can be used for 25 security gateways on a basic license."
"The solution is expensive and there is an annual license."
"Do the homework because Check Point is rather expensive."
"If one will be very expensive, and ten means low price, I rate the tool's price as a three out of ten."
"Check Point is much cheaper than the competition ($4/server as compared to $17/server)."
"Price-wise, it is an expensive solution."
"The solution is expensive."
"I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."
"We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive."
"​You get a lot out-of-the-box with the non-enterprise version, so give it a try first."
"Graylog is a free open-source solution. The free version has a capacity limitation of 2 GB daily, if you want to go above this you have to purchase a license."
"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"
"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
"Consider Enterprise support if you have atypical needs or setup requirements.​"
"We're using the Community edition."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
8%
Security Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
11%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business55
Midsize Enterprise31
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Check Point Security Management?
Based on my experience with Check Point Security Management, I do not see anything lacking. It is currently managing all the gateways, and we are able to achieve what we want from our perspective. ...
What is your primary use case for Check Point Security Management?
I am using Check Point Security Management in our day-to-day operations to centrally manage all Check Point Security Gateways within my organization. All of these Check Point Security Gateways are ...
What advice do you have for others considering Check Point Security Management?
I advise anyone having multiple security gateways that are managed stand-alone to deploy Check Point Security Management and manage all security gateways from a central console and central team. Th...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Graylog?
I am not sure about the pricing, setup cost, and licensing because that was dealt with by a different team that handled the licensing and procurement.
What needs improvement with Graylog?
Graylog Enterprise performs well overall; however, the UI could be improved because the SOC team creates multiple dashboards based on their use cases, and creating dashboards is complex. If there w...
What is your primary use case for Graylog?
Graylog Enterprise is used primarily for log management and to perform security analytics. It helps the organization collect logs from different sources and centralize them in one place. We can sea...
 

Also Known As

R80.10, R80, R77.30, R77, Check Point R80.10 Security Management, R80 Security Management
Graylog2
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Hedgetec, Geiger
Blue Cross Blue Shield, eBay, Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP, King.com, Twilio, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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