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Bronto vs Graylog Enterprise comparison

 

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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

Bronto
Ranking in Log Management
44th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Graylog Enterprise
Ranking in Log Management
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Bronto is 0.1%. The mindshare of Graylog Enterprise is 4.1%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Graylog Enterprise4.1%
Bronto0.1%
Other95.8%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2784753 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Developer III at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Proactive log monitoring has reduced production issues and now identifies errors before release
The best features Bronto offers, from what I've seen so far, are mainly the log analysis, integration with other third-party tools, such as Jira and ticketing systems. I'm impressed with how the integrations with Jira and ticketing systems work for me so far. I haven't come across any challenges, but we're still evaluating Bronto against some other providers as well. It's pretty seamless. The thing that surprised me about the features is how easy it was to get set up and get everything put together. Bronto integrates and can pull CloudWatch logs without needing separate SDK calls from our code. Bronto has positively impacted my organization even in this early evaluation phase by being very useful for looking at lower environment logs and evaluating potential issues before they even make it out. We have resolved at least one issue just from the monitoring that Bronto provided.
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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

"Bronto has positively impacted my organization even in this early evaluation phase by being very useful for looking at lower environment logs and evaluating potential issues before they even make it out."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"I know that there are other similar tools available, but I enjoy using Graylog the most."
"It has data adapters and lookup tables that utilize HTTP calls to APIs."
"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."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"We're using the Community edition, but I know that it has really good dashboarding and alerts."
"The best feature of Graylog is the Elasticsearch integration; we can integrate and run filters, such as an event of interest, and those logs we can send to any SIEM tool or use as analytics, and there are clear and well-documented implementation instructions on their website to follow if needed."
"We run a containerized microservices environment, and being able to set up streams and search for errors and anomalies across hundreds of containers is why a log aggregation platform like Graylog is valuable to us."
 

Cons

"The only thing that I would suggest for further improvement is an expansion on Bronto's offerings so far."
"Dashboards, stream alerts and parsing could be improved."
"The technical support is a weak point in this product. It's not so easy to contact them and they don't answer immediately."
"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."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog. The report is plain, they could be improved."
"I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."
"I would like to see a date and time in the Graylog Grok patterns so that I can save time when searching for a log. I like how the streams and the search query work, but adding a date and time will allow me to pull out a log in a milli-second."
"Graylog could improve the process of creating rules. We have to create them manually by doing parses and applying them."
"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"
"​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."
"We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive."
"I use the free version of Graylog."
"We're using the Community edition."
"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
"It's open source and free. They have a paid version, but we never looked into that because we never needed the features of the paid version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
41%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
University
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Bronto?
The only thing that I would suggest for further improvement is an expansion on Bronto's offerings so far.
What is your primary use case for Bronto?
I just started looking into Bronto as I need to be able to analyze logs, so we're testing out and evaluating different products that support that observability. My main use case for Bronto is mostl...
What advice do you have for others considering Bronto?
I purchased Bronto through the AWS Marketplace. If you're looking for some log monitoring and observability, Bronto is definitely an option. My company does not have a business relationship with 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?
The documentation for Graylog Enterprise can be improved, as this has been a pain point. I think the visualization aspect of Graylog Enterprise can be made more rich, similar to what we have in Gra...
What is your primary use case for Graylog?
I remember using Graylog Enterprise in the past at a software house where we used it for logging. During that time, we were using Graylog Enterprise as a log aggregator, collecting logs from multip...
 

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