What are the main differences between Graylog2 and Kibana

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Sebastien Lorber picture Sebastien Lorber · Jun 20, 2013 · Viewed 38.7k times · Source

What are the main differences between Graylog2 and Kibana?

We already use Graylog2 but I must admit I don't really like the UI. Just wonder in case it may be helpful to switch to Kibana.

Answer

Adam picture Adam · Jun 20, 2013

At my company we started with Graylog2 and recently installed Kibana3. My personal opinion is that Kibana3 is more suited towards non-dev, while Graylog isn't.

Kibana:

  • Pretty dashboards
  • Graphs, charts and images
  • "panel" customization, adding parallel coordinate graphs for example
  • Easy/flexible management of dashboards (they save directly into their own ES index)
  • Easy deployment (just clone the Kibana3 repo and serve it with your fav. web server)

Graylog2

  • Much simpler interface
  • Plain log "analysis" and good search capabilities
  • Built in authentication and user permissions
  • Built in alert mechanisms for your chosen streams

We still have Graylog2 running in parallel to Kibana3, but I don't think it will last for much longer. Kibana3 provides most, if not all, of the capabilities (that we needed), and on top of that it allows management friendly interfaces.

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