Graylog

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Graylog, Inc
Company type Private
Industry Enterprise software
Founded2009;15 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 are 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 has grown to over 50,000 installations worldwide. [7]

Graylog offers multiple enterprise products Graylog Enterprise, Graylog Security for premise installations, as well as Graylog Cloud. Graylog purchased software Resurface.ioin 2023 to include a new product in their portfolio called Graylog API Security.

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

Graylog regularly participates in conferences such as DEF CON, [8] DerbyCon, [9] Black Hat USA, [10] NolaCon, [11] and Security BSides. [12]

Graylog Log Management and Security Analytics Software

The Graylog software centrally captures, stores, and enables real-time search and log analysis against terabytes of machine data from any component in the IT infrastructure and applications. [13] [2] The software uses a three-tier architecture and scalable storage based on OpenSearch and MongoDB. [14] [15] [13] [16] [17] [18]

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