Graylog: Is Graylog free
This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. You can view the complete guide here: Introduction to Graylog, everything you need to know about it.
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Graylog is available in two editions. Graylog Open is the community edition — free to use, including in production. It covers the essential log management needs: collection, indexing, search, dashboards, streams, pipelines, and basic alerting. The source code is available on GitHub. Graylog Operations and Graylog Security are commercial editions that add features such as anomaly detection, compliance reporting, advanced correlation rules, and enterprise support.
One important licensing note: in 2023–2024, Graylog changed the license of its core codebase from Apache 2.0 to the Server Side Public License (SSPL). For the vast majority of users — companies running Graylog internally for their own logs — this change has no practical impact. You can continue to use Graylog Open for free. The SSPL mainly affects organizations that want to offer Graylog as a hosted service to third parties. If you specifically require the Apache 2.0 license, the last Apache-licensed release was Graylog 5.0; versions 5.1 and later are under SSPL.