Graylog vs USM Anywhere comparison

Graylog and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Log Management category. Graylog is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.0, while LevelBlue is ranked #46 with an average rating of 7.3. Graylog holds a 6.4% 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.

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95% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 27, 2025

USM Anywhere and Graylog compete in the field of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. USM Anywhere has the upper hand due to its comprehensive suite of integrated security features, while Graylog stands out for its customizable log management capabilities.

Features: USM Anywhere offers a comprehensive suite that includes SIEM, vulnerability scanning, and asset management. Its all-in-one approach allows extensive event correlation and threat intelligence, known for adaptability and ease of deployment. Graylog shines with its log management capabilities, providing open-source flexibility and integration with Elasticsearch, along with customizable dashboards and alert systems.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere could enhance its vulnerability reporting, search functionality, and deployment simplification, as well as improve options for asset scanning. Graylog users seek better Elasticsearch tuning, enhanced alerting flexibility, and more documentation on open-source components, along with improvements in authentication and user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere supports diverse deployment models, including public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, although its customer service receives mixed reviews. Graylog is known for simpler on-premises deployment but relies more on community resources for support, with less integrated customer service involvement.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is considered cost-effective for SMBs, offering comprehensive SIEM functionalities at competitive prices and achieving ROI through reduced response times and compliance management. Graylog provides a free open-source edition, appealing to budget-conscious users, with its enterprise version offering enhanced features at a higher cost.

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Categories and Ranking

Graylog

Ranking in Log Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Log Management

46th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (32nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (51st), Compliance Management (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Graylog is 6.4%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.4%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Log Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Graylog	6.4%
USM Anywhere	0.4%
Other	93.2%

Log Management

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Ivan Kokalovic

DevOps Engineer at Proton Technologies

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

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

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."

"The build is stable and requires little maintenance, even compared to some extremely expensive products."

"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."

"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."

"It is used as a log manager/SIEM. It provides visibility into the infrastructure and security related events."

"I am very proud of how very stable the solution is."

"Real-time UDP/GELF logging and full text-based searching."

"Graylog is valuable because it bridges technical knowledge to non-technical teams, presenting complex backend processes in a simple timeline."

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"Asset discovery seems to be good."

"The most valuable features of AT&T AlienVault USM are the ease of management and knowledge of what is on the network of my customers. It's easy to understand the problems, and management our alarms and events."

"AlienVault has an advanced component within one package. With this, we can cover more area with one solution."

"There are multiple tools for information security. The solution includes all the latest advances on the network and host intrusion detection systems."

"The Event Correlation and vulnerability scans have been the most useful. As a 24/7 SOC, we use the incoming alarms to give an overview of suspicious traffic going through the network. It's easy to look at the correlated events and see the broad picture of traffic for that customer. Vulnerability scans are good for providing patch and remediation guidelines to keep customer systems secure."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

"It brought our logs into one place for review and set up alarms based on changes we were missing due to lack of having one place for everything to go."

"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."

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Cons

"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."

"I would like to see a default dashboard widget that shows the topology of the clusters defined for the graylog install."

"Graylog can improve the index rotation as it's quite a complex solution."

"The infrastructure cost is the main issue. I like the rest. If the infrastructure costs could be lower, it would be fantastic."

"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-"

"There should be some user groups and an auto sign-in feature."

"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 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."

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"Different functions to customize reports should be added."

"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."

"Windows log collection works with HIDS, but documentation is sparse and confusing."

"The reporting and dashboards have room for improvement."

"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."

"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."

"The only room for improvement I can mention is the initial installation procedures. I found that the online installation instructions for the product were missing important details, they lacked necessary steps."

"I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"There is an open source version and an enterprise version. I wouldn't recommend the enterprise version, but as an open source solution, it is solid and works really well."

"I am using a community edition. I have not looked at the enterprise offering from Graylog."

"If you want something that works and do not have the money for Splunk or QRadar, take Graylog."

"Having paid official support is wise for projects."

"I use the free version of Graylog."

"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."

"We're using the Community edition."

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"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."

"Negotiate the best package for your environment."

"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."

"AT&T AlienVault USM is an expensive solution and we pay for the license and the support separately. We paid for the license and support for three years."

"The ROI is quite good."

"It has good pricing."

"It's saved security costs."

"QRadar, ArcSight and Splunk are some of the most expensive SIEM products out there in the market and not everyone has the budget to buy them. In such cases, AV USM is a very cost effective alternative."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Government

University

Computer Software Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	28
Large Enterprise	25

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?

I am not familiar with the pricing details of Graylog, as I was not responsible for that aspect. It was determined that we didn't need an enterprise plan, which is more suited for clients with less...

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What needs improvement with Graylog?

An improvement I would suggest is in Graylog's user interface, such as allowing for font size adjustments. A potential enhancement could be the integration with Ollama to run large language models ...

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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

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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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