Graylog vs. SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Graylog
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Graylog, headquartered in Houston, offers their eponymous platform for centralized log management that helps users find meaning in data faster so as to take action immediately. Graylog is available via Enterprise and Cloud plans, but also has a Small Business Plan, and an Open (free) plan with limited features.N/A
SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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SolarWinds Log Analyzer is log management and analysis tool, designed to fully integrate with the Orion Platform. With real-time log collection, analysis, and visualization, it enables visibility into the performance and availability of the monitored IT infrastructure. According to the vendor, key feature and business benefits include: Log and event collection and analysis Any infrastructure is constantly generating log data to provide performance…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Graylog

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SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)
Chose SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)
Based on my personal experience SolorWinds Log Analyzer is the best product on the market. Splunk Enterprise is the other system we use for monitoring but it's more complicated and requires extra skills Moreover Solarwinds Support Team response fast to any issues
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User Ratings
GraylogSolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
3.6
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GraylogSolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA)
Likelihood to Recommend
Graylog
For small companies, Graylog is the best solution possible. It's easy to configure and "just works." Above everything else, it's free. The only thing I hold against it is the fact that it's Linux-based. [This] makes sense because Elasticsearch is Linux-based. But Linux adds a layer of complexity that we don't need for something basic as a logging server. I'm pretty sure that we would have had a logging server years earlier if I had to convince quite a few decision-making people to go ahead with it anyway.
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SolarWinds
Some of equipment does not support correct monitoring of particular errors via standard SNMP requests (example - Juniper SRX licenses expiration). In this case getting and analyzing syslogs as well as creating event-based alerts/notifications brings great relief of a network administrator life! The second case - is a simple analyzing firewall log events as SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA) can keep logs for a longer time than an equipment built-in tool.
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Pros
Graylog
  • Graylog does a great job of its core function: log aggregation, retention, and searching.
  • Graylog has a very flexible configuration. The backend for storage is Elasticsearch and MongoDB is used to store the configuration. You have to option to make your configuration as simple as possible by storing everything on one box, or you can scale everything out horizontally by using a cluster of Elasticsearch nodes and MongoDB servers with several Graylog servers pointed to all the necessary nodes.
  • Graylog does a good job of abstracting away a fair portion of Elasticsearch index management (sharding, creation, deletion, rotation, etc).
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SolarWinds
  • Event based custom alarms
  • Useful search filters
  • Real-time streaming
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Cons
Graylog
  • Support for more log sources
  • Event alerts/emails - Some cases where unable to separate data from multiple clients, and no easy fix
  • API - Limits results to 10,000 and can cause server to lockup on queries that exceed the limit
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SolarWinds
  • Network management
  • Server infrastructure management
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Support Rating
Graylog
Community support does not give simple straightforward answers; simply search up Graylog Issues and look at some of the responses on the forums. The documentation is your only hope if you are on the free version, as you can NOT purchase only support. The few times I have worked with Graylog Enterprise support they were great though.
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SolarWinds
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Alternatives Considered
Graylog
In terms of log aggregation, the free product fully stacks up with the competitors listed. Full control over the data ingests for flexible configuration. Graylog even better on that front than AlienVault USM because you cannot configure the variable mapping. We haven't used the threat exchange stuff or correlation. But with regex searches, we have created function dashboards that show threat theater pictures of our network based on logs from our firewall.
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SolarWinds
Based on my personal experience SolorWinds Log Analyzer is the best product on the market. Splunk Enterprise is the other system we use for monitoring but it's more complicated and requires extra skills Moreover Solarwinds Support Team response fast to any issues
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Return on Investment
Graylog
  • Graylog is just less expensive than some other options which meant it fit into our budget otherwise we might not be able to justify a higher cost.
  • Being able to track issues that we normally couldn't track using other tools is a bonus to help us know of any issues we have and can fix before an outage or failure that could potentially cost money.
  • We have had to spend more time than I would like to understand and customize Graylog which has taken time away from other tasks and projects.
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SolarWinds
  • Decrease issue reaction time
  • Simplify an issue root cause reporting
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ScreenShots

SolarWinds Log Analyzer (LA) Screenshots

Screenshot of Log and event collection and analysisScreenshot of Powerful search and filterScreenshot of Real-time log streamScreenshot of Event log taggingScreenshot of Orion Platform integrationScreenshot of Orion Alert integration