Compare Elastic Observability and Graylog 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Starting at $15,000.00 Per Year
Elastic Observability
Star Rating
(87)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (44.6% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansGraylog
Star Rating
(117)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $15,000.00 Per Year
Free Trial is available
Browse all 2 pricing plansElastic Observability vs Graylog
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Graylog easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Graylog overall.
- Elastic Observability and Graylog both meet the requirements of our reviewers at a comparable rate.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Graylog is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Graylog over Elastic Observability.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Elastic Observability
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Pay As You Go
Per Month
A fully automated, usage-based platform. Ideal for variable workloads where compute scales independently from storage, requiring zero capacity planning or infrastructure management.
- No-ops management: Elastic handles all upgrades and scaling
- Decoupled compute and storage scaling
- Specialized VCUs for Ingest, Search, and Machine Learning
Graylog
Graylog Enterprise
Starting at $15,000.00
Per Year
Enterprise Log Management for SecOps, ITOps, and DevOps teams, built on the Graylog Platform, Graylog Enterprise is designed to maximize your systems’ uptime, alert you to issues and outages, enhance productivity, and meet data retention requirements for larger teams and complex situations.
- Guided Log Ingestion & Onboarding – Built-in setup wizard simplifies configuring and validating log sources across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
- Integrated Data Lake with Preview & Selective Retrieval – Store long-term logs in low-cost storage and preview or retrieve only the data needed for investigations or audits.
- Prebuilt Parsing, Dashboards, and Content Packs – Out-of-the-box parsers, dashboards, and enrichment for common platforms and compliance use cases reduce manual configuration.
Free Trial
Elastic Observability
Free Trial is available
Graylog
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
65
8.7
91
Ease of Use
7.3
67
8.4
89
Ease of Setup
6.9
24
7.6
47
Ease of Admin
6.7
20
8.4
45
Quality of Support
7.6
57
8.2
70
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.7
16
8.4
31
Product Direction (% positive)
7.9
66
8.3
87
Features by Category
Content Management
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Content Discovery
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Generative AI
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Functionality
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Agentic AI - Website Monitoring
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Monitoring
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Administration
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Analysis
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Agentic AI - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
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AI Automation - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
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Functionality
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Issue Resolution
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Management
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Generative AI
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Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
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Visibility
9.2
6
9.3
5
8.3
6
9.0
5
7.8
6
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Monitoring and Management
9.0
5
Not enough data
7.8
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Log Monitoring
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Feature Not Available
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Data Sources
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Analytics
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Metrics
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Data Preparation
8.7
5
8.2
10
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9.0
5
9.3
9
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9.0
8
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Not enough data
8.8
8
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Analysis
9.0
5
9.0
8
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8.7
5
9.0
8
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8.7
5
9.0
8
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9.3
5
8.8
11
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Verified
8.7
5
8.8
11
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Not enough data
8.8
10
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Verified
Visualization
9.3
5
9.3
9
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9.7
5
9.2
8
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Agentic AI - Log Analysis
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM)Hide 19 FeaturesShow 19 Features
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Monitoring
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Response
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Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
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Performance
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Functionality
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Not enough data
8.2
70
Network Management
Not enough data
8.7
48
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Not enough data
7.5
41
Not enough data
9.2
56
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Incident Management
Not enough data
8.4
50
Not enough data
7.5
41
Not enough data
7.9
46
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Security Intelligence
Not enough data
7.5
46
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7.6
41
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46
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Not enough data
8.3
49
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Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
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Feature Not Available
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Elastic Observability and Graylog are categorized as Log Monitoring and Log Analysis
Unique Categories
Elastic Observability is categorized as AIOps Platforms, IoT Analytics Platforms, Website Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and Insight Engines
Graylog is categorized as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Elastic Observability
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Graylog
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
26.5%
Computer Software
20.5%
Internet
7.2%
Telecommunications
4.8%
Retail
3.6%
Other
37.3%
Information Technology and Services
17.6%
Computer Software
9.8%
Hospital & Health Care
5.9%
Computer & Network Security
4.9%
Telecommunications
3.9%
Other
57.8%
Discussions
what is the best way to sync data with elastic search from SQL server
3 Comments
AT
Write a process that convert each line into Json format and load it into ElasticSearchRead more
Do elastic search use indexes to store the information.
1 Comment
AD
I'll take a stab at answering this question though I'm not 100% sure exactly what you are after.
The way I would explain it is that in elasticsearch an...Read more
Can I use Elasticsearch for free?
1 Comment
GO
https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq
Self-Managed: Yes. From the very beginning, the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — has been...Read more
What is your experience with Graylog in managing log data, and what features do you find most useful?
1 Comment
AS
We use Graylog as our SEIM and log retention management. One of Graylog's best features is the multitude of different ways it can ingest data, and through...Read more
Graylog has no more discussions with answers
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