Graylog

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Graylog, Inc
Company type Private
Industry Enterprise software
Founded2009;16 years ago (2009) in Hamburg, Germany
FoundersLennart Koopmann, Hass Chapman
Headquarters Houston, Texas, U.S.
Key people
  • Andy Grolnick (CEO)
  • Robert Rea (CTO)
  • Kimber Spradlin (CMO)
  • Thanh Dinh (COO)
  • Mark Brooks (CCSO)
  • Joshua Ziel (CSO)
Services
Number of employees
50–100
Website www.graylog.org
Graylog log management software
Developer(s) Graylog, Inc
Written in Java
Operating system Linux
Type Log management
License Server Side Public License (Graylog Open), volume licensing (Graylog Enterprise)
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Graylog, Inc is a log management and security analytics software company based in Houston, Texas. [1] Their main product is a log management software which is also called Graylog (styled as graylog).

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History

Graylog, formerly Torch, [2] was founded in 2009 by Lennart Koopmann and began as an open-source project in Hamburg, Germany. The headquarters are in Houston, Texas. [3]

In October 2014, Mercury made its initial investment in Graylog. [4] e.ventures and Mercury Asset Management became later investors. The other investors were Crosslink Capital, Draper Associates and High-Tech Gründerfonds. [5] [6]

Graylog released its first commercial offering in 2016 making its enterprise product available. [7] As of 2018, Graylog had grown to over 50,000 installations worldwide. [7]

Graylog has offices in Houston TX (HQ), Boulder CO, London UK and Hamburg Germany.

Graylog log management and security analytics software

Graylog is a source-available, open-core Security Information and Event Management [SIEM] and log management platform, licensed under the Server Side Public License. It collects, indexes, and analyzes structured and unstructured machine data in real time. [8]

The platform’s architecture includes a core server component, with Graylog Data Node or OpenSearch handling log storage and indexing, and MongoDB managing metadata and configuration. [9]

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References

  1. "Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". sec.gov.
  2. "Graylog". cbinsights.com.
  3. "Graylog Collects $ 2.5 Million Financing". hamburg-startups.net. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  4. "Why we invested in Graylog". mercuryfund.com. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. "Graylog attracts $2.5 mln". penhub.com. Archived from the original on 31 May 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. "Software Maker Graylog Raises $2.5M, Moves to Houston from Germany". xconomy.com. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  7. 1 2 "About Graylog - Make Better IT Decisions". graylog.org/about.
  8. K, Ashwani (September 23,2023), “What is Graylog and use cases of Graylog?”, DevOps School
  9. Bertram, Adam (June 16, 2020), “A Graylog tutorial to centrally manage IT logs”, TechTarget