Graylog: What is Graylog used for

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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• Rely on an unlimited, dedicated SMTP email server included with your service.
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Engineering and operations teams use Graylog for a wide range of scenarios. The most common is production debugging: when incidents occur, teams can search across logs from dozens of services simultaneously, instead of inspecting files on each server. This greatly accelerates and simplifies troubleshooting.

Graylog is also used for infrastructure monitoring. You can define alert conditions that trigger when error rates rise, services become unavailable, or unusual log patterns are detected. Security teams rely on Graylog for audit and compliance, tracking authentication events, access patterns, and anomalies, while retaining logs for the periods required by standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA. Platform teams use Graylog to correlate events across different systems—web servers, databases, load balancers, or Kubernetes pods—into a single, searchable timeline.