Graylog: What is Graylog

This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. You can view the complete guide here: Introduction to Graylog, everything you need to know.

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• Unlimited and dedicated SMTP email server included.
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• Customisable 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 is an open-source log management platform that provides engineering and operations teams with a centralised location to collect, store, search, and analyse log data from their entire infrastructure. Rather than SSH-ing into individual servers to read log files one by one, you centralise all your logs in Graylog, where they are indexed in real time and can be searched across billions of events in milliseconds.

The platform is built around three main capabilities. First, it collects log data from virtually any source — servers, applications, containers, network devices, cloud services — using standard protocols such as Syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, and HTTP. Second, it indexes this data in an embedded OpenSearch engine, making every field instantly searchable. Third, it analyses the data through a web interface that offers full-text search, customisable dashboards, alert rules, and processing pipelines capable of enriching, filtering, and routing log events in real time.