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Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by tbdr »

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.

I was able to crash the system without even trying.

After waiting for a 500MB something docker image download and running the container halted the host OSX machine while looping with errors (failed API connections, failed to load SIGAR, ...)

The screenshots looked great but the first steps experience were a deal breaker.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by [deleted] »

aerialcombat wrote: post #9
lennartkoopmann wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by lennartkoopmann »

aerialcombat wrote: post #9
lennartkoopmann wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Exactly. Think of this search query you could do:

  source:your-app AND http_status_code:>=500
This would give you a list of all HTTP 500s of "your-app".

Or:

  user_id:12346 AND http_status_code:>=500
... to see all errors a user caused after customer care called you, reporting an error the user got. Stacktrace is there immediately without having to find the right log file on the right web server.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by lennartkoopmann »

losvedir wrote: post #8

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.

Yes! Let me know if we can help with any questions.

See also: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2885752/log-analysis/open-s...

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by hijinks »

aerialcombat wrote: post #9
lennartkoopmann wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

correct.. its a way for you to index and search through logs and easily pull out where issues might be happening.

Its like splunk but not as poweful

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by NextPerception »

I looked around a little bit on the web page but the answer to my two questions was not immediately apparent to me. (Note: I might just be blind) 1. Can I set up a second Graylog Server as a failover with automated recovery and log syncing when both nodes come back up? 2. Can I run it on any cheap cheap embedded platforms like a raspberry pi or beagleboard?

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by aerialcombat »

aerialcombat wrote: post #9
lennartkoopmann wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I've visited the site and read what I could before, but without knowing what it does, it was pretty cumbersome to read through the entire website to figure out what exactly it does.

I was initially drawn to the fact that it took five and a half years to get to 1.0. God knows how hard it must've been to work on it to perfect it all these years, heck spending five months on an app is tough enough. I would've given up reading about it otherwise if it hadn't been for the five years thing. I just think that, despite all it's capable of, if the descriptions were more in layman's terms it could reach wider audience.

It actually turns out that this is exactly what I was looking for since I'm about to have my app out, and if I hadn't asked the question, I would've just ignored it all together.

While I'm very thankful for the additional explanations, I still think that nice illustration or a simple video of telling how it can solve real world problems will help people understand it better.

Re: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA

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Post by lennartkoopmann »

zantana wrote: post #19

Is Graylog effectively a single product that does the whole thing? My dismay with the ELK stack is you are effectively juggling 3 separate products with different release cycles.

Yes! We have put a lot of effort into making this one thing.

The graylog-web-interface connects to the graylog-server REST APIs and that is it. You can manage and monitor the whole system from the graylog-web-interface.

Both components are always released together.

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