Grafana Loki vs. Graylog

AWS integrations are easy, metrics are easily accesable Long term log insights need to be thought out and set up carefully

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If you already have a basic understanding of Elasticsearch and/or MongoDB, Graylog will be a great fit when it comes to log aggregation. It will be a decent option even if you don't have any experience but have the time and willingness to roll up your sleeves that learning those tools will require. Graylog supports plugins to extend functionality for things like SNMP traps, telemetry collection, and solar flares. As is the case with most software with plugins, if the core functionality for which you are looking (i.e. not logging) is based on a plugin, Graylog probably isn't for you. The majority of the plugins in the marketplace are developed by third-parties looking to solve their specific use case so bug fixes and new features are not a given.

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• Integration with AWS
• Notifications land where they should
• Broad integration options

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• The free edition is extraordinarily powerful.
• Log searching is quick.
• The web interface is sleek, and the install is relatively quick.

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• Offer log suggestions.
• Offer basic query syntax check.
• Offer data range controls.

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• The graphs and visualizations are limited on the dashboard if there were more options it would be better for different kinds of data.

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I think it is very developer minded and has a very high learning curve

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From a product perspective, it's an 8.

I am still unhappy with the pricing model for the enterprise. Graylog competes against the likes of IBM and Splunk, but your still the new kid on the block. To price Graylog enterprise at 50k for 20GB ingest an unrealistic data. It would require multiple facets of Graylog to be stood up and only forward pruned logs to the paid version.

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Loki is an essential complement to Grafana and provides logging metrics for dashboards and other visual tools. Loki can handle the service logging, while other data source plugins can provide more specific quantifiable metrics to support the logging data. Different types of metrics make a robust data dashboard.

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Azure Monitor is not exactly what I mean, but I couldn't find Azure Application Insights. Anyway, for a large organization, Azure makes more sense than using Graylog because a lot of logging will already be inside Azure. And you don't want to have two "central" logging locations. But Azure is chaos and highly "not intuitive." So for small and mid-size organizations, Graylog is still the better option.

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• Enable engineers to access logs quickly to distribute the workload.
• Provide a possible standard for log access between multiple services.
• Provide data metrics for customer use.

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• Able to offer monitoring services to new and existing clients to increase revenue
• Staff have increased billing percentage
• Potential to expand security services

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