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Graylog's Scalable Architecture is designed for high performance and cost efficiency, helping teams reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while maintaining the flexibility to grow. Whether scaling from a small deployment to a global enterprise, Graylog adapts seamlessly offering agile data management and built-in scalability for evolving needs.

Graylog Scalable Architecture Highlights:

Process 1,000,000 Messages/Sec

Ingest and search petabytes of data in real-time for "instant" answers.

Save 4x on Storage Costs

Automatically prioritize, route, and archive logs without sacrificing data access.

99.9%+ Availability On-prem, Hybrid & Cloud

Seamlessly forward logs across clusters with no data loss or downtime.

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Graylog Scalable Architecture — A Closer Look

Graylog’s Scalable Architecture isn’t just about handling more data—it’s about ensuring efficient, reliable, and secure data flow across your organization. Whether forwarding logs between clusters, optimizing storage, or tiering data for long-term retention, these features deliver unmatched scalability and operational efficiency. Plus, with Graylog’s robust API, you can seamlessly integrate with your existing security stack, automate workflows, and extend functionality across SOAR platforms, and other enterprise systems. This means real-time log insights where you need them, automated responses to critical events, and the flexibility to adapt to evolving security challenges—without disrupting your operations.

Enterprise Forwarder

Streamlined Log Aggregation for Large Environments
Enterprise Forwarder streamlines log collection from distributed environments, enabling high-volume data forwarding with minimal overhead. Whether managing multiple data centers or remote locations, ensure that logs reach the right destinations for analysis and compliance.

Scale Without Bottlenecks – Designed for high-throughput environments, ensuring smooth log delivery
Reduce Infrastructure Load – Offload processing to keep your SIEM and log storage efficient.

Example: A multinational enterprise with regional data centers needs to centralize logs for compliance audits. Enterprise Forwarder enables efficient aggregation without straining network bandwidth or delaying log ingestion.

Enterprise Forwarder Available in: Graylog Security | Graylog Enterprise — Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Cluster to Cluster Forwarder

Intelligent Data Forwarding Across Sites & Environments
Efficiently manage multi-cluster environments with Cluster to Cluster Forwarder, enabling seamless log transmission between regional or global clusters. Maintain resilience, optimize data flow, and ensure logs are always where you need them.

Enhance Data Redundancy – Improve disaster recovery and failover strategies.
Streamline Multi-Region Deployments – Ensure compliance and performance with localized data forwarding.

Example: A financial institution must ensure redundancy and disaster recovery across global data centers. Cluster to Cluster Forwarder enables real-time log forwarding between regions, ensuring compliance and minimizing downtime.

Cluster to Cluster Forwarder Available in: Graylog Security | Graylog Enterprise — Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Cloud Forwarder

Seamless Log Forwarding to the Cloud
Send logs to the cloud with Graylog’s Cloud Forwarder. This feature ensures secure, high-speed log transmission from on-prem environments to cloud platforms, providing centralized visibility and real-time analysis without latency issues.

Optimize Cloud Migration – Move logs efficiently to cloud storage or analytics platforms.
Ensure Secure Transmission – End-to-end encryption keeps your data protected in transit.

Example: A security team monitoring a hybrid environment needs real-time access to cloud logs for rapid incident response. Cloud Forwarder ensures that logs are securely transmitted with minimal delay, helping analysts investigate threats faster.

Cloud Forwarder Available in: Graylog Security | Graylog Enterprise — Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Data Node

High-Performance Storage & Processing for Massive Log Volumes
Increase log storage and indexing capabilities without performance drops. Data Nodes are purpose-built to handle high ingestion rates and ensure optimal log retention, retrieval speed, and performance—even as data volumes grow.

Boost Query Performance – Reduce search times with optimized indexing.
Expand Storage Capacity – Scale horizontally to accommodate growing log volumes.

Example: A SOC (Security Operations Center) handling millions of events per second requires rapid searches across historical logs. Data Nodes enable high-speed indexing and retrieval, allowing security teams to run queries in seconds instead of minutes.

Data Node Available in: Graylog Security | Graylog Enterprise — Compare Plans

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Data Routing & Tiering

Smart Data Management for Cost Efficiency & Performance
Graylog’s Data Routing & Tiering feature intelligently prioritizes, routes, and stores logs based on business needs. Optimize storage costs by keeping critical data readily accessible while archiving less-used logs for long-term retention.

Reduce Storage Costs – Automatically archive cold data to lower-cost storage tiers.
Improve Query Efficiency – Keep high-priority logs in fast-access storage for real-time insights.

Example: A healthcare provider must retain certain logs for HIPAA compliance but needs instant access to recent logs for threat detection. Data Routing & Tiering automatically archives older logs while keeping high-priority data in fast-access storage. Logs that don’t need to be retained can be automatically rolled off to further lower storage costs.

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

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

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Benefits of Scalable Architecture Capabilties

Seamless Cloud & Enterprise Scalability

Securely forward logs to the cloud for centralized visibility and real-time analysis.
Scale effortlessly from small deployments to enterprise-wide infrastructures with minimal overhead.

Optimized Multi-Cluster Management

Efficiently transmit logs between global or regional clusters for resilience and compliance.
Ensure data redundancy, disaster recovery readiness, and regulatory alignment with intelligent log forwarding.

High-Performance Storage & Processing

Scale log storage and indexing to support massive data growth while maintaining fast queries.
Improve search efficiency and accelerate threat detection with optimized log retrieval and indexing.

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What is scalable architecture, and why is it important?

Scalable architecture refers to a flexible system design that can grow efficiently with increasing workloads. It ensures high availability, fast data processing, and cost-efficient storage—crucial for log management, security analytics, and enterprise IT infrastructures.

How does Graylog’s scalable architecture improve log management?

Graylog’s scalable log management architecture ensures that security teams and IT operations get real-time log insights without delays. Its Enterprise Forwarder, Cluster-to-Cluster Forwarder, and Cloud Forwarder optimize log routing for compliance, security, and disaster recovery.

What is the difference between horizontal and vertical scalability?

Horizontal scalability (scale-out): Adds more servers or nodes to distribute workload.
Vertical scalability (scale-up): Upgrades a single server’s resources (CPU, RAM, storage). Graylog supports horizontal scaling by allowing distributed log storage and indexing, ensuring high availability and performance across large-scale environments.

How does Graylog ensure high availability and reliability in a scalable architecture

Graylog achieves 99.9%+ availability with:

Cluster-to-Cluster Forwarding for multi-region data redundancy
Enterprise Forwarder to optimize log transmission without network congestion
Data Tiering & Routing to keep critical logs in fast-access storage

How does scalable architecture reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)?

Scalable architecture minimizes unnecessary storage costs and optimizes data warehousing by:

Implementing Data Routing & Tiering to intelligently store data based on access needs
Tiering storage (hot, warm, and cold data segregation) to allocate resources efficiently
Routing logs to data warehouses or long-term storage for compliance and analytics
Offloading logs efficiently to the cloud without latency
Reducing infrastructure load with Graylog’s intelligent log forwarding and storage automation

By dynamically routing data based on business requirements, Graylog ensures that high-priority logs remain readily accessible, while lower-priority logs are archived efficiently to reduce storage costs by up to 4x.

How does Graylog’s Enterprise Forwarder optimize log forwarding in large environments?

Enterprise Forwarder allows distributed log collection across data centers without performance bottlenecks. Key benefits:

Ensures high-throughput log forwarding
Reduces network congestion by offloading log processing
Optimizes multi-region compliance audits for enterprises
Provides local journaling for uninterrupted log storage when high-speed links to HQ or primary data centers are down

Example: A multinational organization with regional data centers needs to centralize logs for compliance. Enterprise Forwarder ensures logs reach the right destinations securely and efficiently, even during network disruptions, by locally storing logs until transmission is restored.

How does Graylog’s Cloud Forwarder support hybrid and cloud scalability?

Cloud Forwarder seamlessly sends logs from on-prem environments to cloud platforms with:

End-to-end encryption for secure log transmission
High-speed forwarding for real-time cloud analysis
Optimized cloud migration to avoid bandwidth overload

Example: A security team in a hybrid cloud environment needs instant access to logs for incident response. Cloud Forwarder ensures rapid transmission to cloud SIEM platforms.

What role do Data Nodes play in scalable architecture?

Data Nodes handle massive log ingestion and storage without performance drops. Benefits:

Boost query speed by optimizing indexing
Expand storage horizontally for increasing log volumes
Enable rapid threat detection by improving log search efficiency

Example: A Security Operations Center (SOC) analyzing millions of logs per second can run searches in seconds instead of minutes using Graylog Data Nodes.

How does scalable architecture improve compliance and data security?

Scalable architecture supports real-time log forwarding, secure data encryption, and redundancy strategies. Graylog ensures:

Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2)
Data redundancy with Cluster-to-Cluster Forwarding
Automated log archiving to meet retention policies

Why is scalable architecture critical for SIEM and security analytics?

SIEM systems require real-time log analysis to detect security threats. Graylog’s high-performance scalable infrastructure ensures:

Fast threat detection with optimized indexing
Seamless log collection from global and hybrid environments
Automated security workflows via API integrations

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Graylog Scalable Architecture Highlights:

Process 1,000,000 Messages/Sec

Ingest and search petabytes of data in real-time for "instant" answers.

Save 4x on Storage Costs

Automatically prioritize, route, and archive logs without sacrificing data access.

99.9%+ Availability On-prem, Hybrid & Cloud

Seamlessly forward logs across clusters with no data loss or downtime.

Graylog Scalable Architecture — A Closer Look

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

*Feature capabilities vary by plan.

Benefits of Scalable Architecture Capabilties

Seamless Cloud & Enterprise Scalability

Optimized Multi-Cluster Management

High-Performance Storage & Processing

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