Graylog: Why choose 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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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.
- 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 offers several major advantages over assembling a log management stack from scratch:
- All-in-one: OpenSearch and MongoDB are included and pre-configured — no need to install, configure, and maintain three separate services.
- Powerful search: Full-text search across billions of events in milliseconds, using the straightforward Graylog Query Language (GQL) — no complex syntax to learn.
- Streams and pipelines: Route and transform log data in real time — filter noise, enrich fields, and send specific events to precise destinations, all without writing custom code.
- Built-in alerting: Alert conditions and notifications via email, Slack, PagerDuty, etc., are integrated directly into Graylog — no need for a separate alerting tool.
- Dashboards: Create visual dashboards directly in the Graylog web interface, without needing an additional visualisation layer such as Grafana or Kibana.
- 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.