By going through the page I understood:<p>* Graylog2 is probably version 2 of Graylog (fair enough)
* It's a data analytics platform, where you can feed your syslog.
* Has a REST interface<p>What I would like to understand but was not able to:<p>* Do they open source both client and server?
* Is it only a server app with a web interface?
* To they sell anything at all? (support, plans, etc)
We are heavy users of both Graylog2 and Logstash and they both shine at different things at the moment.<p>In an enterprise context with lots and lots of logs Graylog2 is making the process of segregating access to certain logs very,very easy. It's interface is a lot less "bling bling" than Kibana but much easier to use for a certain type of users.<p>Logstash is still king for parsing logs into structured events (and we use it a LOT - our current config file is ~2.5k lines) but we had issues with stability and loosing messages (crashes due to character issues, etc).<p>The core of Graylog2 rocks - it's stable and very performant (we are pushing 30k+ msgs/s over a single node with room to spare) and the support we have received from the Graylog2 team has been nothing but awesome.<p>I am confident that they will catch up with Kibana (in terms of visualisations) very, very quickly.
I have been unable to use Graylog for a long time now; if anyone can provide any pointers I'd greatly appreciate it. No matter what installation method I try, eventually my Graylog instance crashes, or Mongo crashes, or Elasticsearch crashes, or my hard drive gets filled up with huge amounts of error logs and the whole system grinds to a halt, etc etc etc. I am using an Azure "large" instance and trying to log about 300 or so messages per second. I make sure to only log enough messages so that old ones get thrown away before the hard drive fills up, but it doesn't matter, it still crashes. It also crashes if I add an external large drive and log to there, eventually I will get an insanely large number of elasticsearch errors.<p>I eventually had to take it down because it keeps crashing but now I have no error information. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I started playing with this over the weekend. Great stuff.<p>Also, if you're on the fence about whether to use this or Kibana, they're compatible with each other, so give them both a try. (Set up Graylog2, point Kibana at G2's elasticsearch instance, profit.)
I don't know if it is just my browser, but at the top of the page where it says "everything we learned from users" the "d" in learned and the "f" in users are on-top of eachother.<p>Sorry I don't have anything constructive to post.
Great to see that there is (almost) always a great open source alternative to expensive proprietary IP products! Splunk can become very expensive very quickly if you have a lot of data, so this is great news. Wish they would have shorter release cycles though...
It would be nice to know what Graylog actually is after reading the entire linked page. It left a fluffy impression, but most (all) of the information there is explaining nice things <i>about</i> Graylog.<p>This seems suboptimal from a marketing perspective.
This has come a long way since I last used it around 3 or so years ago. I'm looking forward to trying it now since it's re-done and ditched mongodb for elasticsearch.
in the URL: "/wow/such/0.20.0/"<p>in one of the first screen shots:
"wow such monitor"<p>I'm guessing that was just a test name for the purpose of the screenshot, or so I hope.<p>However, speaking in general (and not just aiming it at this project), can we please leave the cutesy little Doge talk out of documentation and marketing? I'd say that's true of all "memes" in general. In theory anyone can look at a project if it's useful, and believe it or not, not everyone spends enough time on Reddit or 4Chan to have a clue about what a Doge or a Harlem Shake is.<p>tldr; such dogetalk. much child-like. so annoy. wow.
Has anyone compared Kibana with Graylog 0.20 series recently?<p>My use case is (currently) more in exceptions catching than performance monitoring. Judging from that screenshots alone, I would say that Graylog is a better fit for me.
Does this compare to logstash? I'm trying to decide what log aggregator use, and I don't have much time to test both. BTW, I'm running SLES 11 SP 2.
Oh, this is great news. One more project off my never-ending todo-list (write log aggregator backed by elastic search). Nice to see binary packages for Debian too!