We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Graylog based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"I like the correlation and the alerting."
"We have scaled from a single machine installation (a VM with a Graylog + ES + MongoDB) to (2 Graylog + 2 ES + 3 MongoDB). This was done smoothly with a minimal impact on logging."
"Storing logs in Elasticsearch means log retrieval is extremely fast, and full text search is available by default."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"Message forwarding through the in-built module."
"UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."
"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"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."
"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature."
"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."
"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."
"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Graylog is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Beats writes "A robust solution with a whole spectrum of features that's extremely scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Graylog writes "Great detailed search features and easy Java integration, but needs improvement in integration with Python". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer.
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