Graylog: When to use 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.
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• 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 the right tool when your team needs to centralize logs from multiple servers, services, or applications into one searchable interface. If engineers are spending time SSH-ing into machines to debug production issues, or if you have no visibility into what is happening across your infrastructure in real time, Graylog solves that problem directly.

It is also a strong choice when you need real-time alerting on log patterns — error spikes, failed logins, service outages — and when you must retain logs for compliance or audit purposes. Graylog is particularly well suited to teams that want a purpose-built log management UI without the complexity of assembling and maintaining multiple separate tools.