Most of the time you already know what you are looking for in Graylog. The problem is getting there: building the right search, remembering the field names, narrowing down the stream, formatting the query. It works great, but there is a new way and its conversational.
That changes with Graylog’s MCP server. It connects Graylog directly to Claude or your favorite LLM, so instead of constructing a search you can just ask for what you need in plain language and get the data back.
What This Webinar Covers
In our next session in the Getting the Most out of Graylog Open series, Jeff Darrington walks Graylog Open users through the MCP server end to end, on Windows, from a cold start to real working prompts.
- Setting up the MCP server connection on Windows PowerShell with Claude CLI
- Generating the token Claude needs to talk to Graylog
- Searching streams and indices using natural language
- Pulling log and login data through conversational prompts instead of manual queries
- The gotchas people run into during setup, and where to go if you get stuck
Why It Matters
Natural language search does not replace Graylog’s query language, it gives you more ways to get answers from your data. New team members can get answers without learning field syntax first. Experienced users can move faster during an investigation. And anyone troubleshooting login activity or chasing down a specific log source can just describe what they need.
This session is built for Graylog Open users specifically, so if you have been wondering whether MCP and Claude are worth wiring up, this is the direct answer: here is what it looks like, here is how to set it up, and here is what to watch for.
Details
- 20 minutes of content, 10 minutes of live Q&A
- Presenter: Jeff Darrington
- July 29th, 10AM EDT
Register now to save your spot: here
