What does it really mean to have a SIEM Without Compromise?
For too long, security teams have been stuck in a no-win game—forced to choose between visibility and cost, detection breadth and team capacity, automation, and control. Every decision felt like a trade-off, with real-world consequences: dropped logs, missed alerts, and inconsistent response when it mattered most.
With the Spring ’25 release of Graylog Security 6.2, we’re eliminating those compromises. Our latest innovations empower you to log everything, detect what matters, and respond with precision—without overloading your team or your budget.
Let’s break down the three most common SIEM trade-offs and how Graylog 6.2 puts them to rest.
Log Collection: No More “All or Nothing”
The Trade-Off:
Most SIEMs license based on volume, source, or compute, making log collection a budgetary balancing act. You either drop logs to control costs or accept unpredictable licensing spikes. Once dropped, those logs—and their forensic value—are gone forever.
The Graylog 6.2 Solution:
With Graylog’s native pipeline management, including Data Routing and Graylog’s provided Data Lake, you don’t have to choose. Route only high-value logs (used for active dashboards, detection, and analytics) into licensed hot storage. Send everything else into your standby data lake, where it is searchable, restorable, and completely license-free. Graylog lets you Preview data in your data lake prior to retrieval, and provides selective retrieval options, ensuring the data in your SIEM is the data driving decisions.
You get full retention with cost control—perfect for compliance, audits, and threat hunting. Your storage, your rules—on-prem or in the cloud.
Threat Detection: From Alert Overload to Risk-Led Action
The Trade-Off:
More detections = more alerts = more noise. To keep alert fatigue in check, teams are forced to disable or under-tune detections—limiting early visibility into attacker behaviors. As threat campaigns evolve, keeping detection content current without overwhelming the SOC becomes impossible.
The Graylog 6.2 Solution:
Enter Graylog’s Adversary Informed Defense. Rather than triage individual alerts, 6.2 automatically recognizes adversary groups Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), chaining detections together and exponentially increasing risk scoring with each additional corroborating detection. Going a step beyond tagging detections based on their MITRE ATT&CK tactic and technique, Adversary Informed Defense uses real-world threat campaign details to recognize the presence of an attack in your environment, even if individual activities are spread over days, weeks, even months.
And this inherently works with Graylog’s Asset Risk model, allowing teams to confidently enable more detections without drowning in alert noise, keeping them ahead of attacker TTPs without burning out their analysts.
Incident Response: Ditch the Binder, Evolve Beyond the Playbook
The Trade-Off:
SOAR was supposed to solve alert triage with automation. In reality, most playbooks are rigid, brittle, and require expert knowledge to build and maintain. Meanwhile, LLM-based copilots introduce inconsistency—same question, different answer.
The Graylog 6.2 Solution:
We deliver the best of both worlds:
- Structured guidance with every event via embedded procedural steps
- Context-aware AI assistance via LLMs that analyze investigation evidence in real time
This ensures consistent, repeatable investigations with dynamic, context-enriched support—no more toggling between static flows and unpredictable copilots.
Why This Matters
With Graylog Security 6.2, security teams no longer need to compromise:
| Legacy SIEM Trade-Off | Graylog 6.2 Advantage |
| Drop logs to save cost | Route to license-free standby data lakes, Preview and selectively recall what is important |
| Disable detections to reduce noise | Enable more—and only triage alerts with automatic corroborated evidence |
| Static playbooks or unpredictable AI | Consistent steps + contextual LLM guidance
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Get Started: Experience SIEM Without Compromise
Graylog’s Spring ‘25 release isn’t just a feature drop—it’s a shift in how modern security teams operate, adapting to your environment, in support of lean teams, and keeps you ahead of adversaries, not buried under alerts.
Try it for yourself and contact us today.
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