Graylog: What is Graylog

This documentation is part of the Introduction guide. View the full guide here: Intruduction to Graylog, a unified, powerful platform for log management and analytics.

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Stackhero provides 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 needed.
• Use a custom domain name secured by HTTPS (for example, https://logs.your-company.com), giving your team secure, direct access.
• Experience strong performance and security on a private, dedicated infrastructure with no shared resources or noisy neighbors.

Focus on your data, not your tooling: 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 centralizes log collection, storage, search, and analysis for your entire infrastructure. Instead of connecting to individual servers to manually inspect logs, you can ship all logs to Graylog, which indexes them in real time. Every log becomes instantly searchable, even across billions of events, with results returned in milliseconds.

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