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Graylog Enterprise vs NetWitness Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Graylog Enterprise
Ranking in Log Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetWitness Platform
Ranking in Log Management
36th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (34th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Graylog Enterprise is 2.5%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetWitness Platform is 1.2%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Graylog Enterprise2.5%
NetWitness Platform1.2%
Other96.3%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

Gabriel R. Sousa - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultor De Informação Plena at Protivity Brasil
Centralized logging has provided full security visibility and supports faster incident investigations
I think one of the positive points Graylog Enterprise offers is this centralization of logs, which greatly facilitates investigation work. Another point is its ability to perform searches, apply filters, and run queries so that you can look for a specific event, user, or IP. I think Graylog Enterprise brought efficiency gains because when you run a search or do some research, you can save it, so you do not need to enter the query again; you just retrieve what is already saved. I think the main point regarding Graylog Enterprise features is that it helps a lot in event analysis and identification because it brings in a lot of logs and a lot of information, so you can access all the information about the alert there. I believe Graylog Enterprise's AI features are very good, allowing you to use AI to run specific searches, which brings a lot of results. Regarding the AI features of Graylog Enterprise, I did not use them in such depth as to accurately evaluate their reliability, but I believe that AI can help speed up analysis and identify some suspicious patterns, though it is important that the result is always validated by an analyst.
reviewer1130436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Security and Infrastructure Expert at a government with 201-500 employees
Helps to deal with potential attacks and is available at a reasonable price
My company has had many benefits from the use of the product in the last eight years. The tool has streamlined our company's incident response process since it serves as a log repository, which allows us to correlate events and access different technology stacks. In our company, we were able to actually find some potential attacks, so it has been very helpful. The tool's integration capability isn't so great. In my company, we managed to integrate it with our Microsoft Azure Subscription, after which we managed to integrate it with other tools. You will face a lot of difficulties if you want to integrate it with your database monitoring tool, PAM solutions, or IAM products. The product has done well overall for my company's teams to deal with their workflow efficiency. I would not recommend the product to others. I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Graylog Enterprise as a SIEM is fantastic for receiving logs, and the integrations with external connectors also add many features."
"Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"The Graylog features that have proven to be most beneficial for our data analysis in particular are that we tend to use it as a big data store, so we have the correlation rules that, if something matches under certain conditions, it raises an alarm."
"Graylog Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by significantly minimizing our workload and making it easier to identify any issues in a service."
"Allowing us to set up alerts and integrate with platforms we already use, such as Slack and OpsGenie to alert users of these errors proactively, is also a very useful feature."
"With Graylog Enterprise, monitoring improved by up to 80 percent because of having all the logs centralized."
"It has data adapters and lookup tables that utilize HTTP calls to APIs."
"Packet Solution: Allows analyst proactive hunting and alerting on daily sophisticated APTs."
"The most valuable feature is the hunting ability to work in a CERT."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication and then being able to investigate based on that, where you can see the payload and deconstruct the packets."
"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."
"Thanks to this tool, we have a small SOC running in our company."
 

Cons

"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."
"Graylog could improve the process of creating rules. We have to create them manually by doing parses and applying them. Other SIEM solutions have basic rules and you can create and get more events of interest."
"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."
"The area in Graylog that needs to be improved or enhanced would be the integrations."
"I believe Graylog Enterprise could improve by having a simpler system for locating records and a more efficient system of filters and monitoring."
"More customization is always useful."
"Over six months, I had two similar issues where searches were performed on field "messages". It exhausted all the memory of the ES node causing an ES crash and a Graylog halt."
"I wouldn't recommend the enterprise version, but as an open source solution, it is solid and works really well."
"One thing to be improved in NetWitness is the capability to correlate event logs in a general sense."
"It is overly complicated. It has taken years to implement and the return on investment just isn't there."
"RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets is far behind the competition."
"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."
"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."
"I use the free version of Graylog."
"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."
"Consider Enterprise support if you have atypical needs or setup requirements.​"
"We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive."
"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."
"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."
"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"
"The tool is very expensive, so I rate the pricing a ten out of ten. The solution has an annual subscription."
"In comparison to other SIEM solutions such as Splunk, NetWitness is less costly."
"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."
"The product price was reasonable for my region and the market."
"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."
"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."
"Our license is for one year."
"We are on an annual license for the use of the solution."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Graylog?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Graylog Enterprise to be somewhat expensive. However, it is cost-effective compared to other larger platforms. The pricing depends on factors such a...
What needs improvement with Graylog?
One improvement I want to see in Graylog Enterprise is artificial intelligence to help us automatically identify unusual patterns and suggest possible causes. I also want to see more ready-made das...
What is your primary use case for Graylog?
Graylog Enterprise serves as my main centralized log management solution. In our environment, we have many systems that generate logs, including servers, applications, network devices, and security...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?
The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.
What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?
There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.
What is your primary use case for NetWitness Platform?
I use NetWitness Platform ( /products/netwitness-platform-reviews ) in the financial industry as a good product with excellent capabilities and integration with various devices.
 

Also Known As

Graylog2
RSA Security Analytics
 

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Sample Customers

Blue Cross Blue Shield, eBay, Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP, King.com, Twilio, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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