Graylog vs Logentries

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Graylog vs Logentries: What are the differences?

Graylog: Open source log management that actually works. Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information; Logentries: Real-time log management and analytics built for the cloud. Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

Graylog and Logentries can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

"Powerfull" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Graylog, while over 31 developers mention "Log search" as the leading cause for choosing Logentries.

Graylog is an open source tool with 4.9K GitHub stars and 759 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Graylog's open source repository on GitHub.

PedidosYa, Movielala, and Code School are some of the popular companies that use Logentries, whereas Graylog is used by CircleCI, AppBrain, and Dial Once. Logentries has a broader approval, being mentioned in 136 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Graylog, which is listed in 75 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.

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Pros of Graylog
Pros of Logentries
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    Open source
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    Powerfull
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    Well documented
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    Alerts
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    User authentification
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    Flexibel query and parsing language
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    Alerts and dashboards
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    User management
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    Easy query language and english parsing
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    Easy to install
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    Manage users and permissions
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    A large community
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    Free Version
  • 34
    Log search
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    Live logs
  • 19
    Easy setup
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Backup to S3
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    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
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    Free
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    Search/query with regex
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Cons of Graylog
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    Does not handle frozen indices at all
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    What is Graylog?

    Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information.

    What is Logentries?

    Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

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