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Graylog vs Splunk: What are the differences?
Graylog: Open source log management that actually works. Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information; Splunk: Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.
Graylog and Splunk can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.
Graylog is an open source tool with 4.9K GitHub stars and 760 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Graylog's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Graylog has a broader approval, being mentioned in 75 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Splunk, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.
Pros of Graylog
- Open source17
- Powerfull12
- Well documented7
- Flexibel query and parsing language5
- User authentification5
- Alerts5
- Easy query language and english parsing2
- Alerts and dashboards2
- User management2
- Easy to install1
- Honestly the worst tool I ever used1
- A large community1
- Manage users and permissions1
Pros of Splunk
- Alert system based on custom query results2
- API for searching logs, running reports2
- Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc2
- Ability to style search results into reports1
- Query any log as key-value pairs1
- Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc1
- Granular scheduling and time window support1
- Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing1
- Dashboarding on any log contents1
- Rich GUI for searching live logs1
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Cons of Graylog
- Does not handle frozen indices at all1
Cons of Splunk
- Splunk query language rich so lots to learn1
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