Graylog vs Logentries vs Logstash

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Graylog

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Logentries

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Logstash

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Pros of Graylog
Pros of Logentries
Pros of Logstash
  • 19
    Open source
  • 13
    Powerfull
  • 8
    Well documented
  • 6
    Alerts
  • 5
    User authentification
  • 5
    Flexibel query and parsing language
  • 3
    User management
  • 3
    Easy query language and english parsing
  • 3
    Alerts and dashboards
  • 2
    Easy to install
  • 1
    A large community
  • 1
    Manage users and permissions
  • 1
    Free Version
  • 34
    Log search
  • 27
    Live logs
  • 19
    Easy setup
  • 14
    Heroku Add-on
  • 5
    Backup to S3
  • 2
    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    Search/query with regex
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    E
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    Free
  • 18
    Easy but powerful filtering
  • 12
    Scalable
  • 2
    Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log
  • 1
    Great to meet GDPR goals
  • 1
    Well Documented

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Cons of Graylog
Cons of Logentries
Cons of Logstash
  • 1
    Does not handle frozen indices at all
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    • 4
      Memory-intensive
    • 1
      Documentation difficult to use

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    What is Graylog?

    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.

    What is Logentries?

    Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

    What is Logstash?

    Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.

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    Splunk
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    Loggly
    It is a SaaS solution to manage your log data. There is nothing to install and updates are automatically applied to your Loggly subdomain.
    Kibana
    Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
    Elasticsearch
    Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching it in near real time. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash are the Elastic Stack (sometimes called the ELK Stack).
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