Inputs Demystified

Get Logs into Graylog Open Cleanly with the Input Wizard, Smarter Diagnostics, and Graylog Sidecar

Log ingestion shouldn’t feel like a rite of passage. Yet choosing between Syslog, GELF, Beats, and HTTP API inputs, then getting ports, codecs, and parsers right the first time, can leave even experienced teams guessing. Worse, data can arrive with bad timestamps, missing fields, or garbled payloads, and there’s no easy way to know.

What You’ll Learn in This Webinar:

• The difference between push and pull inputs, and how to choose the right one for each device, service, or application
• When to use the five core input types: Syslog (RFC 5424), GELF, raw/plaintext with Grok patterns, CEF/NetFlow/IPFIX, and HTTP API
• How the redesigned Inputs page surfaces failed or stalled inputs, real-time traffic, and troubleshooting diagnostics
• How to use the Input Wizard to route a new source into a dedicated stream and index with custom retention
• How to validate incoming data, flatten JSON into searchable fields, and build a quick dashboard
• How Graylog Sidecar centrally manages Winlogbeat, Filebeat, and NXLog configurations with tags and event-level filtering

Watch now to simplify log ingestion, catch data problems before they spread, and get clean, reliable logs flowing into Graylog from day one.