Graylog: What makes Graylog so great

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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Stackhero offers a ready-to-use Graylog cloud solution that provides a host of benefits, including:

  • Unlimited and dedicated SMTP email server included.
  • Effortless updates with just a click.
  • Customizable domain name secured with HTTPS (for example, https://logs.your-company.com).
  • Optimal performance and robust security powered by a private and dedicated VM.

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Graylog offers several major advantages over building a log management stack from scratch:

  1. All-in-one: OpenSearch and MongoDB are included and pre-configured — no need to install, configure, and maintain three separate services.
  2. Powerful search: Full-text search across billions of log events in milliseconds, using the intuitive Graylog Query Language (GQL) that requires no complex query syntax.
  3. Streams and pipelines: Route and transform log data in real time — filter out noise, enrich fields, and send specific events to specific destinations, all without writing custom code.
  4. Built-in alerting: Alert conditions and notifications via email, Slack, PagerDuty, and more are built directly into Graylog — no separate alerting tool required.
  5. Dashboards: Build visual dashboards directly in the Graylog web UI, without needing an additional visualization layer like Grafana or Kibana.
  6. Multi-protocol ingestion: Accept logs via Syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, HTTP, and more — compatible with virtually any log shipper already present in your infrastructure.