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Graylog, Inc
Company typePrivate
IndustryEnterprise software
Founded2009; 15 years ago (2009) in Hamburg, Germany
FoundersLennart Koopmann, Hass Chapman
HeadquartersHouston, 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
Websitewww.graylog.org
Graylog log management software
Developer(s)Graylog, Inc
Written inJava
Operating systemLinux
TypeLog management
LicenseServer Side Public License (Graylog Open), volume licensing (Graylog Enterprise)
Websitewww.graylog.org Edit this on Wikidata

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).

History

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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

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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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". sec.gov.
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "About Graylog - Make Better IT Decisions". graylog.org/about.
  8. ^ "Demo Labs - Defcon". defcon.org.
  9. ^ "Common WiFi Attacks And How To Detect Them". wtf.horse. Archived from the original on 2019-09-10. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. ^ "Graylog with Lennart Koopmann at #BlackHat2016". soundcloud.com.
  11. ^ "Lennart Koopmann". nolacon.com.
  12. ^ "BSides Austin 2018 - 50 Shades of Graylog". bsidesaustin2018.sched.com.
  13. ^ a b "What is Graylog?". g2crowd.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  14. ^ "Architecture". Graylog 2.4.6 documentation. Retrieved 2020-05-08.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Review: Graylog delivers open source log management for the dedicated do-it-yourselfer". cio.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  16. ^ "9 Splunk alternatives for log analysis". infoworld.com. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog". devops.com. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  18. ^ "Graylog - Make Better IT Decisions". infotech.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-26.