AI, ML & Automation

AI That Enhances. Not Replaces.

Graylog AI is built to enhance your security team, not replace it. Machine learning surfaces unusual user and entity behavior, AI summaries turn dashboards and investigations into plain-language takeaways, and AI agents take on routine review and tuning work. An open MCP Server lets you bring your own AI tools to Graylog data, governed by the same permissions and audit trail as your analysts. Every insight is explainable, and people stay in control, without compromise.

Graylog AI, ML & Automation Highlights

Detect what rules miss. Understand it faster. Act with confidence.

Core AI Capabilities in Graylog:

Detect Abnormal Patterns in Real Time

Machine learning learns normal behavior and flags insider threats, credential misuse, and unusual data movement that static rules never catch.

Understand
It Faster

AI summaries turn busy dashboards and complex investigations into plain-language findings and clear next steps.

Put AI
to Work

Built-in agents handle asset review and detection tuning, while an open MCP Server connects your own AI tools to Graylog data.

Graylog AI, ML & Automation: A Closer Look

Graylog applies AI where analysts lose the most time: spotting what doesn’t fit, making sense of what they find, and clearing routine work off their plate. Every capability respects your existing RBAC and audit logging, and shows the reasoning behind its output.

UEBA, Anomaly Detection & ML

Expose unseen behavior risks. Graylog machine learning builds behavioral baselines for users, hosts, and applications, then flags deviations such as insider threats, credential misuse, and unusual data transfers. Each enabled detector creates its own event definition, so anomalies flow into your existing alerting.

  • Behavior-based detection – Surface suspicious activity without writing or maintaining a rule for every scenario.
  • Confidence-scored anomalies – Every anomaly carries a confidence value, so analysts can prioritize the deviations most likely to matter.
Custom Anomaly

UEBA & Anomaly Detection Available in:  Graylog Security  —  Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Get instant situational awareness from any dashboard. AI reads the widgets on screen and summarizes what stands out, such as spikes, shifts, and outliers, in plain language. Analysts and managers see what matters without interpreting every chart.

  • One-click summaries – Turn complex dashboards into a short, readable briefing.
  • Faster handoffs – Share a clear picture of current activity with shift leads, managers or stakeholders who don’t live in the console.
AI Dashboard Widget Summary

Dashboard Widget AI Summary Available in:  Graylog Security  |  Graylog Enterprise  —  Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Turn investigation evidence into a decision-ready report. AI reviews the events, logs, and notes attached to an investigation and produces a summary of what happened, what was affected, and what to do next.

  • Decision-ready findings – Move from raw evidence to clear conclusions without writing the report by hand.
  • Consistent documentation – Give every investigation a uniform summary for escalations, audits, and post-incident review.
AI Investigation Report Summary

Investigation Report AI Summary Available in:  Graylog Security   —  Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Hand routine analysis to purpose-built AI agents. Graylog agents work inside your environment, on your data, and return recommendations for an analyst to approve. Nothing changes without a human decision.

Asset Review

Keep asset context current and actionable. The Asset Review agent examines an asset’s risk score, related events, and vulnerability data, then summarizes its security posture and recommends next steps.

  • Risk in context – See why an asset’s risk is rising, with the supporting signals pulled together in one place.
  • Prioritized follow-up – Get recommended actions so analysts know which systems to address first.


Event Definition Tuning Advisor

Sharpen detections without hours of manual tuning. The Tuning Advisor reviews how event definitions have triggered over time, identifies noisy or low-value alerts, and recommends specific changes.

  • Fewer false positives – Find the detections generating the most noise and see how to tighten them.
  • Continuous improvement – Detection quality improves over time instead of drifting as your environment changes.
AI Agent Workflow Runs

AI Agent Workflows Available in:  Graylog Security  |  Graylog Enterprise   —  Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Bring your own AI to Graylog data. Graylog’s MCP Server gives any MCP-compatible AI agent or LLM tool standardized access to logs, events, and alerts, with no custom integration work. External agents see only what your RBAC policies allow, and every interaction is written to the audit log.

  • Open, standardized access – Connect the AI assistants and agent frameworks your team already uses through a single protocol.
  • Governed by default – Existing permissions and audit trails apply to every AI request, so there’s no ungoverned data access.
  • Live context for automation – Trigger investigations, retrieve evidence, and enrich external workflows with Graylog data.

Data Routing and Tiering Available in:  Graylog Security  |  Graylog Enterprise  |  Graylog Open —  Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Why Choose Graylog AI

Explainable, Not Black-Box

  • Every anomaly, summary, and recommendation shows the evidence and reasoning behind it.
  • Analysts can verify any AI output before acting on it.

Humans Stay in Control

  • Agents recommend; analysts approve. No unattended changes to detections or systems.
  • RBAC, audit trails, and approval steps apply to every AI interaction, including MCP.

Open and Extensible

  • Use Graylog’s built-in AI, or connect the AI tools your team already trusts through the MCP Server.
  • No lock-in to a single model or vendor for your AI workflows.

Our Point of View: Human First. Evidence Always.

Why we build AI this way

Security teams do not need science fiction. They need speed, signal, and confidence. At Graylog, our philosophy is simple: AI must be useful, explainable, and built to augment humans. It should automate repetitive tasks, enrich the important ones, and always show its work. That is why we invest in agentic capabilities that accelerate routine steps, add guardrails, and keep analysts in control.

What Graylog Will and Will Not Do with AI

With Graylog, AI is practical, accountable, and always without compromise.

Will:

  • Reduce manual work in enrichment, correlation, and summarization.
  • Improve time to context with clear scoring factors and visible reasoning.
  • Keep humans in control with RBAC, audit trails, and approval steps.

Will Not:

  • Promise an “autonomous SOC.”
  • Over-promise features or timelines.
  • Replace analyst judgement with black-box automation. 

FAQs about AI in Graylog

Graylog uses AI across three stages of security work. Machine learning detects anomalous behavior, AI summaries explain dashboards and investigations in plain language, and AI agents handle routine work like asset review and detection tuning.

No. Graylog AI automates repetitive steps and recommends actions, while analysts make the decisions. Every output is explainable, and every action is auditable.

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) uses machine learning to learn what normal looks like for users, hosts and applications. Graylog flags deviations, such as unusual logins, permission changes or data transfers, with a confidence score so analysts can prioritize them.

Dashboard summaries describe what stands out across the widgets you’re viewing. Investigation summaries turn the evidence in an investigation into a written report of what happened and recommended next steps.

They are purpose-built AI agents that run specific tasks inside Graylog. Asset Review assesses an asset’s risk and recommends follow-up. The Event Definition Tuning Advisor identifies noisy detections and recommends changes to reduce false positives.

No. Agents return recommendations for an analyst to review and approve, so detections and systems change only through a human decision.

It is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint that lets any MCP-compatible AI agent or LLM tool query Graylog logs, events and alerts through one standard protocol, without custom integration work.

Yes. MCP requests follow your existing Graylog RBAC permissions, so external agents only see data their assigned role allows. Every MCP interaction is recorded in the audit log.

Yes. Anomaly detection with confidence scoring, risk-based prioritization and the Event Definition Tuning Advisor all reduce alert noise and help analysts focus on genuine threats.

Graylog already delivers fast, accurate, schema-aware search. Analysts get precise results without the uncertainty of generative guesses.

AI features are available in Graylog Security and Graylog Enterprise, with some capabilities specific to Graylog Security. See Compare Plans for details.