We performed a comparison between Graylog and Snare based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"Storing logs in Elasticsearch means log retrieval is extremely fast, and full text search is available by default."
"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."
"Graylog's search functionality, alerting functionality, user management, and dashboards are useful."
"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"What I like about Graylog is that it's real-time and you have access to the raw data. So, you ingest it, and you have access to every message and every data item you ingest. You can then build analytics on top of that. You can look at the raw data, and you can do some volumetric estimations, such as how big traffic you have, how many messages of data of a type you have, etc."
"Message forwarding through the in-built module."
"The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value."
"The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency."
"Snare has good agents, especially for Windows."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"We ran into problems with Elasticsearch throwing a circuit-breaking exception due to field data size being too large. It turned out that the heap size directly impacted this size in a high-throughput environment, causing unexplained instability in Graylog. We were able to troubleshoot on the Elasticsearch size, but we should have been able to reference some minimum requirements for Graylog to know that our settings weren't sufficient."
"More customization is always useful."
"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."
"Since container orchestration systems are popular and Graylog fits the niche well, perhaps they could officially support running in docker containers on Kubernetes as a StatefulSet as a use case. That way, the declarative nature of Kubernetes config files would document their best case deployment scenario-"
"Elasticsearch recommendations for tuning could be better. Graylog doesn't have direct support for running the system inside of Kubernetes, so it can be challenging to fill in the gaps and set up containers in a way that is both performant and stable."
"It would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community."
"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."
"Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare."
"Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit."
"The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet."
Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while Snare is ranked 41st in Log Management with 3 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while Snare is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Graylog writes "Great detailed search features and easy Java integration, but needs improvement in integration with Python". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, whereas Snare is most compared with syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM and Elastic Security. See our Graylog vs. Snare report.
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