We performed a comparison between Graylog and SolarWinds Log Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."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."
"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."
"We run a containerized microservices environment. 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."
"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."
"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."
"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer works for specific conditions, like when someone needs to monitor a specific log or do specific actions."
"Its scalability gets complicated when we have to update or edit multiple nodes."
"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."
"I hope to see improvements in Graylog for more interactivity, user-friendliness, and creating alerts. The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks sufficient documentation."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."
"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."
"SolarWinds Log Analyzer should deliver more integrated products so you can manage the console and easily configure the solution."
Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is ranked 48th in Log Management with 1 review. Graylog is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Log Analyzer is rated 0.0. 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 SolarWinds Log Analyzer writes "Can be used to monitor a specific log or do specific actions, but its initial setup is not so easy". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, whereas SolarWinds Log Analyzer is most compared with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Wazuh, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, syslog-ng and Loggly.
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