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Graylog Enterprise pros and cons

Vendor: Graylog
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

Graylog Enterprise enhances productivity for development and support teams by directly notifying them of issues.
It provides visibility into infrastructure and security-related events.
The build is stable and requires little maintenance, demonstrating excellent scalability across various deployments.
Real-time logging and full text-based searching make Graylog Enterprise valuable for data analysis and log retrieval.
The software integrates seamlessly with platforms like Slack and OpsGenie to proactively alert users, complemented by versatile search functionality and alerting capabilities.

CONS

Graylog Enterprise lacks sufficient documentation, making it challenging for users to fully understand certain features.
Complexities arise with Graylog Enterprise's scalability, especially when updating or editing multiple nodes.
There is an issue with the infrastructure cost associated with Graylog Enterprise, making it a significant concern for many users.
Many users encounter problems with Elasticsearch, particularly memory exhaustion leading to crashes when searching fields.
Graylog Enterprise's integration process could be enhanced to support a broader range of use cases and improve functionality.
 

Graylog Enterprise Pros review quotes

NC
Security Officer at JSC "Moldtelecom" S.A.
Jan 9, 2026
It is easier to find some issues, and if I find some issues, then it is easier to resolve them.
reviewer2704128 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Security & CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 22, 2025
The Graylog features that have proven to be most beneficial for our data analysis in particular are that we tend to use it as a big data store, so we have the correlation rules that, if something matches under certain conditions, it raises an alarm.
reviewer2806998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 4, 2026
With Graylog Enterprise, monitoring improved by up to 80 percent because of having all the logs centralized.
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AK
Security Analyst at Netsharqs cybersecurity GmbH
Jan 27, 2025
It has data adapters and lookup tables that utilize HTTP calls to APIs.
GP
Dev Ops Team's Lab at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Jan 8, 2026
Troubleshooting is straightforward with Graylog Enterprise.
Nicolae CIornii - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Officer at BC Energbank S.A.
Dec 26, 2023
The product is scalable. The solution is stable.
Andrey Mostovykh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees
Sep 27, 2022
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.
Peter Malaty - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at TechStyle Fashion Group
Sep 30, 2022
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.
Jonas Leeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer & Co-Founder at Plexify GmbH
Sep 22, 2022
One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview.
Shivam-Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer Intern at MyKaarma
Mar 24, 2023
The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface.
 

Graylog Enterprise Cons review quotes

NC
Security Officer at JSC "Moldtelecom" S.A.
Jan 9, 2026
The problem was with the complexity and the cost to add extensions.
reviewer2704128 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Security & CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 22, 2025
The area in Graylog that needs to be improved or enhanced would be the integrations.
reviewer2806998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineering at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 4, 2026
The documentation for Graylog Enterprise can be improved, as this has been a pain point.
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AK
Security Analyst at Netsharqs cybersecurity GmbH
Jan 27, 2025
When it comes to configuring the processing pipeline, writing the rules can be very tedious, especially since the documentation isn't extensive on how the functions provided for these rules work.
GP
Dev Ops Team's Lab at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Jan 8, 2026
There are many other applications in the market that influenced my rating reduction.
Nicolae CIornii - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Officer at BC Energbank S.A.
Dec 26, 2023
I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex.
Andrey Mostovykh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees
Sep 27, 2022
The infrastructure cost is the main issue. I like the rest. If the infrastructure costs could be lower, it would be fantastic.
Peter Malaty - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at TechStyle Fashion Group
Sep 30, 2022
Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous.
Jonas Leeb - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer & Co-Founder at Plexify GmbH
Sep 22, 2022
It would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community.
Shivam-Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer Intern at MyKaarma
Mar 24, 2023
Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes.