Graylog: What is Graylog

This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. View the full 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 is an open-source log management platform that gives engineering and operations teams a single place to collect, store, search, and analyze log data from every part of their infrastructure. Instead of SSH-ing into individual servers to read log files one by one, you ship all your logs to Graylog, where they are indexed in real time and made searchable across billions of events in milliseconds.

The platform is built around three core capabilities. First, it collects log data from virtually any source — servers, applications, containers, network devices, cloud services — using standard protocols like Syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, and HTTP. Second, it indexes that data in an embedded OpenSearch engine, making every field instantly queryable. Third, it analyzes the data through a web interface that includes full-text search, customizable dashboards, alert rules, and processing pipelines that can enrich, filter, and route log events in real time.