User Reviews of Graylog & syslog-ng

Updated March 2024

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Graylog review

Andrey Mostovykh
Andrey Mostovykh
Senior Data Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Real-time analysis, easy setup, and open source
We stopped using it for analytics because of its price, and at the moment, we are using it mostly for log centralization. If you use it with high traffic for analytical purposes, as well as for the logs, the infrastructure costs are unbelievable. Graylog is a great product backed by Elasticsearch as the storage and query engine. It is just...
syslog-ng review

RyanVargas
RyanVargas
Senior Director and Senior Systems Engineer (Dual Role), IT Infrastructure and Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's a user-friendly open-source solution that can replace or augment a commercial...
I rate syslog-ng 10 out of 10. It's free and easy to use. It has built-in tools that help us index the various logs sent to it. It's a solid log product. If you're looking for a SIEM solution, syslog-ng will work as a stopgap measure at beginning of the project. It can also work as an injector for a true SIEM solution. You can send all the...

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