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Graylog vs USM Anywhere comparison

Graylog and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Log Management category. Graylog is ranked #16 with an average rating of 6.5, while LevelBlue is ranked #42 with an average rating of 7.3. Graylog holds a 6.7% mindshare in Log Management, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Graylog users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.
Graylog
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95% willing to recommend
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92% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

USM Anywhere and Graylog are competitors in the security management and log analysis space. Based on various feature offerings and user feedback, USM Anywhere appears to have a slight advantage due to its comprehensive functionality and seamless integration with security tools.

Features: USM Anywhere provides centralized log management, IDS integration, and real-time alerts, with a focus on flexibility and ease of use. Its vulnerability assessment and file integrity monitoring are especially lauded. Graylog, being open-source, is favored for real-time log management, strong alerting support, and an easy dashboard creation process.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere can enhance its reporting capabilities, asset scanning, and search functionalities while improving documentation. Users of Graylog would like to see more support for alert flexibility, simplified index management, and improvements in authentication and logging presentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere is versatile in both cloud and on-premises deployments, with generally responsive customer service, though some inconsistency is noted. Graylog offers similar deployment options with commendable community support but lacks detailed support for complex configurations.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is competitively priced with flexible licensing, making it attractive for small to medium businesses due to its comprehensive security offerings that yield positive ROI. Graylog’s open-source model offers a low-cost entry with significant functionality, although infrastructure costs may rise with larger deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Graylog
Ranking in Log Management
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
USM Anywhere
Ranking in Log Management
42nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
115
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (31st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (53rd), Compliance Management (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Graylog is 6.7%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.4%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management
 

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Ivan Kokalovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates backend service monitoring with efficient log retrieval and API flexibility
Graylog is valuable because it bridges technical knowledge to non-technical teams, presenting complex backend processes in a simple timeline. It boosts the knowledge of sales and customer support teams by allowing them to see the backend operations without needing to read the code. Its API is flexible for visualization, and its powerful search engine efficiently handles large volumes of log data. Moreover, its stability, fast search capabilities, and compatibility with languages like ANSI SQL enhance its utility in IT infrastructure.
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Kris Nawani - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software
USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Graylog is very handy."
"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."
"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."
"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its new interface."
"This had increased productivity for the dev and support teams, because we are directly notifying them."
"The best feature of Graylog is the Elasticsearch integration. We can integrate and we can run filters, such as an event of interest, and those logs we can send to any SIEM tool or as an analytic. Additionally, there are clear and well-documented implementation instructions on their website to follow if needed."
"I like the correlation and the alerting."
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"Having everything in a central place has been helpful."
"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."
"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."
"It allows you to define what alerts you want to see, or not to see, as well as if you want them grouped, or ungrouped."
"On any given day I could give you a different answer regarding the most valuable features of the product. The feature that is most important is the fact that it has a lot of features, that it's not just a log collection and correlation system, that it has a lot of other components built in. The bundle of features is really the killer feature."
"We're using it more for reporting, that's all. We're using it to help our customers to pass any kind of audits that they receive."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it gives you insight into your environment to know what systems need to be updated or patched."
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Cons

"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 some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"With technical support, you are on your own without an enterprise license."
"More complex visualizations and the ability to execute custom Elasticsearch queries would be great."
"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."
"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature.​"
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"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-"
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"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."
"As this software is in the cloud, you do not have control on updates and general changes which are happening."
"It was easy on PoC, but when we got to the product it was different story. We had to learn the product again and got feeling that the PoC was a different product."
"Their threat intelligence platform needs to be broadened. They should integrate it with more threat intelligence platforms. For the threat feed that they get from open intelligence, I would like them to add a few premium threat intelligence platforms. They can provide a bundle in which AlienVault has the threat intelligence background of other premium products."
"The vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improve. The tool has vulnerability scanning, but it is not that efficient."
"I've been told that AlienVault doesn't have a full version of NES running in there, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or if my engineer made it that way. I'm not sure he was completely honest either because we had NES in the environment before. Those tools could be improved because AlienVault is a SIEM, and it added all these other features."
"I feel that some areas of improvement would be vulnerability scanning. We use a separate product that seems to do a much better job."
"Adding a parsing interface for the customers would make AT&T AlienVault USM better."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive."
"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."
"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog.​​"
"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."
"​You get a lot out-of-the-box with the non-enterprise version, so give it a try first."
"Consider Enterprise support if you have atypical needs or setup requirements.​"
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"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."
"​The price point is good.​"
"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."
"It allows you to do a lot with a small price tag... The pricing is the best on the market."
"Use an MSSP instead. It is much cheaper."
"​The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license.​"
"We checked out several competitors. For what it can do and the cost, it was the best option!"
"It's affordable for most customers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
7%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Graylog?
The product is scalable. The solution is stable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Graylog?
We are using the free version of the product. However, the paid version is expensive.
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What needs improvement with Graylog?
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. P...
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What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?
The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?
The pricing is amazing and really cheap.
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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?
There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.
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Also Known As

Graylog2
AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity
 

Overview

Graylog is purpose-built to deliver the best log collection, storage, enrichment, and analysis. Graylog is:

  • Considerably faster analysis speeds.
  • More robust and easier-to-use analysis platform.
  • Simpler administration and infrastructure management.
  • Lower cost than alternatives.
  • Full-scale customer service.
  • No expensive training or tool experts required.
Graylog

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

  • Network asset discovery
  • Software & services discovery
  • AWS asset discovery
  • Azure asset discovery
  • Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

  • SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
  • User activity monitoring
  • Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

  • Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
  • Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

  • Forensics querying
  • Automate & orchestrate response
  • Notifications and ticketing

Assess

  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Cloud infrastructure assessment
  • User & asset configuration
  • Dark web monitoring

Report

  • Pre-built compliance reporting templates
  • Pre-built event reporting templates
  • Customizable views and dashboards
  • Log storage
LevelBlue
 

Sample Customers

Blue Cross Blue Shield, eBay, Cisco, LinkedIn, SAP, King.com, Twilio, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom
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