Graylog - Best DevOps Solution

Company: Graylog, Houston, TX
Company Description: Deployed in more than 55,000 installations worldwide, Graylog is a leading centralized log management solution built to open standards for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of terabytes of machine data. Graylog delivers a better user experience by making analysis ridiculously fast and efficient using a more cost-effective and flexible architecture.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: DevOps Solution

Nomination Title: Graylog for DevOps Professionals

As the result of frustration with the cost and complexity of existing log tools, Graylog began in Hamburg, Germany as an open source project in 2009 to meet the needs of application developers, DevOps, and IT Ops teams. Since that time, Graylog has grown to over 50,000 installations worldwide, established a global headquarters in Houston, Texas, and has a very robust enterprise product set including a commercial offering that was released in 2016 and pre-built content packs (Graylog Illuminate) released in 2020. Graylog Cloud became available on a limited basis on 5 February 2021.

Graylog is a full-featured centralized log management platform that can be used to aggregate, normalize, and enrich log data from any source so that it can be searched, correlated, and visualized as needed by DevOps teams. This is particularly critical in today’s modern SaaS apps built with microservices that operate across multiple containers that are automatically scaled up and down as needed. How do you trace a transaction error across a container that no longer exists? You make sure all log data is sent to Graylog where it can be analyzed holistically with our:

Scalability & Speed: Query terabytes of data in milliseconds, not hours.
Flexibility: Unified search, dashboards, reporting, and alerting empower users to explore their data.

-Spot an anomaly in a dashboard? Use it to feed a pre-built search template for further investigation.
-Built a search and want it as a dashboard? Right-click and you are there.
-Need your junior analysts to be as productive as your experts? Share search templates and investigation workflows across the team.
-Found an issue and want to be automatically alerted if it appears again? The correlation engine can be used to build smart alerts that include all the information you need right in the alert.
-Need to integrate with the rest of the DevOps stack to ensure software updates completed as expected? Graylog’s API can be used to send event data to other tools while also consuming log data from systems such as Chef and Puppet.

Coverage: Graylog supports any structured or semi-structured data source.

Graylog is extremely easy to use - relying on a web-based query builder, and exceedingly fast thanks to our index-on-write approach and Elasticsearch backend. Thus users can accomplish error tracing, root cause analysis, and incident in seconds, significantly reducing the MTTR and boosting DevOps productivity. Finally, Graylog is also used widely by IT Ops, Network Ops, and Security teams making it the ideal tool to break down information silos and consolidate information and event management efforts across the entire IT organization.

Graylog is offered under a free and open Server Side Public License and Commercial licenses. We estimate approximately 50,000 installations world-wide. Open Source and Enterprise are the same product, with additional features enabled through licensing.

Customer testimonials can be viewed here:

Graylog case studies - >https://www.graylog.org/resources-case-studies
Graylog rates 4.5 stars on G2 - https://www.g2.com/products/graylog/reviews
Graylog rates 4.3 stars on Gartner Peer Insights - https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/security-information-event-management/vendor/graylog/product/graylog
Graylog rates 4.6 stars on Capterra - https://www.capterra.com/p/183539/Graylog/

History of Graylog - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graylog
Graylog for DevOps Professionals - https://www.graylog.org/solutions/devops
Graylog Enterprise - https://www.graylog.org/products/enterprise
Case Study - Graylog Provides Developers a Solution https://www.graylog.org/case-studies/graylog-provides-developers-a-solution