Graylog: What makes Graylog so great

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.

👋 Welcome to Stackhero documentation

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 provides several advantages over building your own log management stack:

  1. All-in-one solution: OpenSearch and MongoDB are bundled and pre-configured. You do not need to install, integrate, or maintain separate services.
  2. Fast, intuitive search: Full-text search across billions of events in milliseconds, using the Graylog Query Language (GQL) that is easy to learn.
  3. Real-time streams and pipelines: Route and transform log data as it arrives. You can filter noise, enrich data, and direct specific events to specific streams without custom coding.
  4. Integrated alerting: Alert conditions and notifications via email, Slack, PagerDuty, and other channels are built in: no separate alerting system required.
  5. Native dashboards: Build interactive dashboards directly in the Graylog web UI, without needing extra visualization tools like Grafana or Kibana.
  6. Multi-protocol log ingestion: Accept logs via Syslog, GELF, Beats, raw TCP/UDP, HTTP, and more. Graylog works with nearly any log shipper your environment already uses.