Graylog: What is Graylog

This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. You can view the complete guide here: Introduction to Graylog, a unified and powerful platform for log management and analytics.

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Stackhero offers a fully managed Graylog cloud solution designed for speed and simplicity. You can:

• Rely on an unlimited, dedicated SMTP email server included with your service.
• Apply updates effortlessly with a single click, with no manual intervention required.
• Use a custom domain name secured by HTTPS (for example, https://logs.your-company.com), providing your team with secure, direct access.
• Benefit from strong performance and security on a private, dedicated infrastructure, with no shared resources or noisy neighbours.

Focus on your data, not your tools: you can get started with Stackhero's Graylog cloud hosting solution in just a few minutes.

Graylog is an open-source log management platform that centralises the collection, storage, search, and analysis of logs across your entire infrastructure. Rather than connecting to each server to manually inspect logs, you can send all your logs to Graylog, which indexes them in real time. Every log entry becomes instantly searchable, even among billions of events, with results returned in just milliseconds.

Graylog offers three key capabilities. It collects log data from almost any source: servers, applications, containers, network equipment, or cloud services, using widely adopted protocols such as Syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, and HTTP. It then indexes this data using an integrated OpenSearch engine, making every field immediately queryable. Finally, it analyses your data via a web interface with full-text search, customisable dashboards, alerting, and real-time processing pipelines that can enrich, filter, and route events as they arrive.