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Graylog
Log Aggregation and Analysis Platform
As of 30 August 2026, Graylog is free to use. Graylog is a powerful open-source log aggregation and analysis platform. Softwr lists it under Logging. Graylog is made by Graylog Inc, launched in 2011, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Graylog does
Graylog is a powerful open-source log aggregation and analysis platform.
What people use it for
- Log aggregation and analysis for SecOps teams
- IT and DevOps monitoring and troubleshooting
- Enterprise security event monitoring
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Graylog.
- Graylog Enterprise starts at $15,000 per year and Graylog Security at $18,000 per year, priced by daily volume or annual consumption
- Correlation engine, scheduled and custom reports, compliance reports and teams management are Enterprise-only
- Data tiering across hot, warm and archive storage is an Enterprise feature, not available in Graylog Open
- Graylog Open carries community support only; professional support requires a paid edition
- UEBA anomaly detection, Sigma rules, MITRE ATT&CK alignment and SOAR automation are limited to Graylog Security
Cross-shopped
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Coralogix: Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
Pricing
What Graylog costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Log aggregation
- Full-text search
- Parsing and extraction
Capabilities
Features
Log aggregation
Full-text search
Parsing and extraction
Real-time analytics
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does Graylog have a free version?
Yes. Graylog Open is a free, open-source option for collecting, storing, searching, and analyzing log data. However, it includes only community support.
SourceHow much does Graylog Enterprise cost?
Graylog Enterprise pricing starts at $15,000/year based on daily log volume or annual data consumption. Exact pricing requires contacting sales.
SourceWhat is the difference between Graylog Enterprise and Security editions?
Graylog Security starts at $18,000/year and includes advanced threat detection capabilities beyond the Enterprise edition. Both include technical support.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Graylog
- Company
- Graylog Inc
- Based in
- United States
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- New Relic
- Coralogix
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- Fluentd
- Splunk Cloud
- Honeybadger
- Humio
- ELK Stack
- New Relic Logs
- Telegraf
- Fluent Bit
- Kibana
- Fluentd
- Logstash
- Filebeat
- Kibana
Other Logging software
Continuous Log Insights and Visibility
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Free, then $0.0025/MB ingested12 researched notesThe Plugin-Driven Server Agent for Collecting and Reporting Metrics
Free plan10 researched notes
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