Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#1

Post by lennartkoopmann » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#2

Post by koliber » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

"Users who tested the beta and release candidate versions of v1.0 reported huge improvements in performance and stability. Some of them were unable to crash the system no matter how hard they tried."

This statement from the page makes me conclude that others were indeed able to crash the system, perhaps without even trying too hard.

My guess is that the statement should be re-worded.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#3

Post by lennartkoopmann » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 1:58 PM UTC

koliber wrote: post #2

"Users who tested the beta and release candidate versions of v1.0 reported huge improvements in performance and stability. Some of them were unable to crash the system no matter how hard they tried." This statement from the page makes me conclude that others were indeed able to crash the system, perhaps without even trying too hard. My guess is that the statement should be re-worded.

That is a very good point. We are in the process of changing that. :)

The meaning should be that with v1.0 it is finally very hard to crash the system by overloading it. Previous versions were easier to crash by filling memory in load spike situations for example.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#4

Post by michilehr » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

Congratulations to Lennart and his team!

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#5

Post by aerialcombat » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

So what is it exactly?

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#6

Post by lennartkoopmann » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:11 PM UTC

aerialcombat wrote: post #5

So what is it exactly?

A log management tool: You send all your local log messages/files to a central place (Graylog) and have unified searching, filtering, monitoring, alerting, forwarding, ...

All open source.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#7

Post by gbrindisi » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

I'm evaluating Graylog as a piece in our monitoring infrastructure.

Does anybody have some experience using it in production?

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#8

Post by losvedir » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

So is this in the vein of Splunk, say? My company also uses logentries, and has been quite happy with it, but a hosted open-source tool would be great.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#9

Post by aerialcombat » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

lennartkoopmann wrote: post #6

aerialcombat wrote: post #5

So what is it exactly?

A log management tool: You send all your local log messages/files to a central place (Graylog) and have unified searching, filtering, monitoring, alerting, forwarding, ... All open source.

Call me stupid, but I've always learned better from examples than descriptions. So it's a log management tool. I can have my app write logs or files into Graylog, then I can handle the logs/files within Graylog much more easily than, say, if I were to write my own code to make some kind of sense with the log data. Am I understanding this correctly?

So I can maybe tell easily where users had problems with my app, or I can even use it as some kind of analytics program for my app?

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

#10

Post by whiskykilo » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

gbrindisi wrote: post #7

I'm evaluating Graylog as a piece in our monitoring infrastructure. Does anybody have some experience using it in production?

We have been using it in production, it rocks! Very powerful tool and the company behind it is full of great, helpful folks.