![]() (Graylog doesn’t put all features behind paywall but that may change). If you want any authentication, which all enterprise do because regulations, then you’re going to pay up. They claim to be open source but they are neither open source nor free.ĮlasticSearch and Kibana notably leave all authentication capabilities to the enterprise edition. While it’s temping to run away to the main competitor (namely ELK: ElasticSearch Kibana Logstash), the competition is not cheap either. Splunk can charge per GB (this gets really punitive the more your company grows), or per node, or “unlimited” for the enterprise plan. To give an order of magnitude at one okace many years ago: 800 physical hosts, $12M a year for Splunk (really hope they renegotiated their contract). Splunk is well-known as the most expensive off-the-shelf software in the world (Yes, it’s putting Oracle to shame). In fact I can’t think of any software trial I’ve done where all the products worked well. It’s extremely rare to face multiple competing software that are all good. ![]() If there is one remarkable thing from managing the three of them extensively, it’s that they all work pretty well and they scale. They ingest logs and allow to search and visualize said logs. They’re 90% of the sameīefore we start, you should know that they are 90% of the same. Why the three of them? This depends on what was already in place, if anything, and it’s always good to have competitors when negotiating software license.īoth Graylog and Kibana relies on the ElasticSearch database for storage, so we’ll talk about ElasticSearch too. Having managed production clusters ingesting hundreds of gigabytes per day in them all, at my current and previous companies. I have extensive experience with Graylog, Kibana (ELK), and Splunk.
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