We performed a comparison between Graylog and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."The product is scalable. The solution is stable."
"UDP is a fast and lightweight protocol, perfect for sending large volumes of logs with minimal overhead."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is that you are able to do a very detailed search through the log messages in the overview."
"Message forwarding through the in-built module."
"The ability to write custom alerts is key to information security and compliance."
"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."
"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."
"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."
"vRealize Log Insight has been running without any issues."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"Our current costs are too high, and this tool will help us to better optimize our infrastructure."
"One of the things I like about it is its interface. When it comes to generating reports on VMs and stuff, it's very quick. This is very handy for the technical team, who need to generate reports quickly. So that's really good."
"It allows us to gain a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"It would be great if Graylog could provide a better Python package in order to make it easier to use for the Python community."
"I would like to see some kind of visualization included in Graylog."
"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-"
"The biggest problem is the collector application, as we wanted to avoid using Graylog Collector Sidecar due to its architecture."
"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."
"Graylog needs to improve their authentication. Also, the fact that Graylog displays logs from the top down is just ridiculous."
"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."
"The infrastructure cost is the main issue. I like the rest. If the infrastructure costs could be lower, it would be fantastic."
"They should improve their web interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I think that it should be able to integrate with other third-party backup and recovery solutions, more that it does now."
"The tool is expensive."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
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Graylog is ranked 11th in Log Management with 18 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Graylog is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Graylog is most compared with Grafana Loki, Wazuh, syslog-ng, Splunk Enterprise Security and IBM Security QRadar, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, IBM Security QRadar and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Graylog vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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