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When Open Source Isn’t Enough Anymore
Graylog Enterprise and Graylog Security build on what you love with added automation, deeper visibility, and streamlined efficiency — all without losing flexibility or control.
Built-in ready parsers, dashboards with Illuminate
The Trade-Off: Dropping data to cut costs risks missing something critical.
With Graylog Subscription: Keep all your logs — not just the ones you can afford to store. Route processed lower-priority data to a built-in data lake that doesn’t count toward your license. Use Data-Lake-Preview to search standby data before bringing it into active storage. Restore only what you need with selective retrieval, and gain full visibility without second-guessing what you dropped. No need to build from scratch. Graylog Illuminate gives you ready-to-use parsing and dashboards from day one.
The Trade-Off: More alerts often means more noise, not more insight.
With Graylog Subscription: Cut through the noise with smarter correlation and risk-based prioritization. Adversary Campaign Intelligence connects related alerts, surfaces high-risk behavior, and factors in asset value and recent vulnerabilities to calculate threat severity. And with Graylog Illuminate, you get ready-to-use parsers, dashboards, alerts, and detection rules for dozens of the most common IT and cybersecurity platforms — all curated and maintained by Graylog experts.
The Trade-Off: Deep investigations delay response — or get skipped entirely.
With Graylog Subscription: Pivot from alert to action in seconds. Timeline views, case management, and easy evidence capture help analysts move faster — without missing context. Investigate once. Generate full investigation reports instantly with our AI-assisted writer. Move on.
The Trade-Off: Compliance eats up time with scripts and spreadsheets.
With Graylog Subscription: Meet regulatory requirements without the busywork. Role-based access control, audit logging, and automated compliance reports simplify enforcement, reduce risk, and free your team from manual processes. No heavy lifting required. Graylog Illuminate gives you ready-made content to build and automate reports with ease.
The Trade-Off: Stay stuck on an outdated setup, or risk breaking what works by upgrading alone.
With Graylog Subscription: Our onboarding isn’t one-size-fits-all. For existing Open users, we offer expert-led architecture reviews, deployment tuning, and best-practice guidance tailored to your current setup. Graylog can even incorporate custom sources during the Onboarding Program. You’ll streamline ingestion, boost performance, and get more value from what you’ve already built — faster.
The Trade-Off: Running an unsupported open source tool in production can put your team — and your compliance posture — at risk.
With Graylog Subscription: Paid subscriptions include 24/5 enterprise support with access to product experts who can help you resolve critical issues fast. You’ll also gain access to on-demand training through Graylog Academy, with the option to purchase live sessions, customized training, or a Technical Account Manager (TAM) for ongoing strategic guidance. Need deeper help? Professional services are also available to support complex use cases and accelerate results.
*Graylog Open only supports a very limited number of Parsers and Spotlights. Graylog Open users must first upgrade their 6.1+ instance to include the Enterprise plug-in before being able to install the Illuminate Content Hub.
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Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Support for Syslog, CEF, GELF, BEATS, HTTP JSON, IPFIX, Netflow, Plain Text
Log Collection
Sidecar Central Log Collector Management
Index Field Type Profiles
Pipelines & Streams
Data Normalization
Collections
Asset History
Asset Event Definition
Distinguish Illuminate vs. User-Created Entities
Visualization Widgets
Save to Dashboard
Guided Search
Save & Share
Filters
Parameters
Security Core Reports
AI Dashboard Summarization
Drill Down from Aggregation Widgets
Widget Thresholds and Labels
Text Widgets with Markdown
Revert Changes When Canceling Widget Edit
Data Table Row Numbers
Right-click Graylog + Custom Saved Searches
Scheduled Email Reports
Dashboard Drill Down
Custom Reports
Customizable Visualization Widgets
Save & Share
Input Wizard
Partial
Illuminate Content Hub
Limited with free Illuminate content
Illuminate Content
Parsers (free packs)
only available for certain, Open-source tools
Ops Content
All Content
Sharing Searches for Illuminate + Content Packs
Graylog Schema
Manual
Illuminate
Illuminate
REST API
Content Pack Import/Export
Distinguish Illuminate vs. User-Created Entities
TCP RAW & TCP Syslog Outputs
Security Detection content (e.g. Sigma Rules)
Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Data Enrichment Connectors
IPinfo + MaxMind GeoIP (vendor subscription required
Lookup Tables
Static
Dynamic
Dynamic
Asset Data
Vulnerability Scan Support (Qualys, Tenable Cloud, Nessus, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike)
MCP Server Integration for Natural Language Tools
AI Dashboard Summarization
UEBA + Anomaly Detection (ML)
AI Investigation Report Generation
Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Basic Triggers and Aggregations
Alerting
Notifications
Basic
Advanced
Advanced
Automated Script Triggers
Correlation Engine
Sigma Rules
User Activity, Suspicious Data Movement, File and System Integrity, Network and Perimeter Threats
Custom Detectors
Evidence Collection
AI Investigation Report Generation
Investigation Timeline Visualization and Analytics
Event Procedures (Guided Steps)
Automation
Guided Response and Workflow
Third Party SOAR and Ticketing Integration, add-on
Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Compliance Reports
Asset-based Risk Scoring
Events and Alerts Risk Scoring
Adversary Campaign Intelligence
Field Actions with Threat Intel Lookups and Watchlists
Threat Coverage Analyzer and Visualization
Vulnerability Scan Ingest (Qualys, Tenable Cloud, Nessus, Microsoft Defender)
Teams Management
OIDC, Okta, Auth0, AzureAD, Google, Keycloak, PingIdentity, OneLogin
Graylog User Audit Logs
Role-based Access
Internal
AD or LDAP
AD or LDAP
Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Cluster Metrics for Graylog Node, Graylog Data Node and MongoDB
Multi Cluster
Enterprise Forwarder
Cluster to Cluster Forwarder
Cloud Forwarder
Data Node (OpenSearch 2.19)
Data Pipeline Management and Routing
Data Lake Preview and Selective Retrieval
Amazon Data Lake Preview + Retrieval
Filtered AWS Security Lake Input (3rd-party data lake)
Lake Retrievals Page
Data Tiering, Hot and Warm and Archive
HDFS Warm Tier Support
Feature
Graylog Open
Graylog Enterprise
Graylog Security
Documentation
Graylog Academy
Graylog Community
Onboarding and Architecture Review Services
Technical Account Manager (add on)
Optional
Optional
*Graylog Open only supports a very limited number of Parsers and Spotlights. Graylog Open users must first upgrade their 6.2+ instance to include the Enterprise plug-in before being able to install the Illuminate Content Hub.