Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Graylog
Graylog clearly comes out ahead of Splunk on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Graylog has a free tier; Splunk does not. Splunk's paid plans start at $15/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | hybrid |
| Company | Graylog, Inc. | Splunk |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSec | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | observability-apm | observability-apm |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | graylog | splunk |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Correlation | ||
| Advanced Monitoring Capabilities | ||
| Archiving | ||
| Basic Synthetic Monitoring | ||
| Basic Dashboards | ||
| Everything In Growth | ||
| Centralized Log Management | ||
| Everything In Starter | ||
| Detection Rules | ||
| Full-Stack Observability | ||
| Everything In Graylog Enterprise | ||
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Everything In Graylog Open | ||
| Ingest-Based Pricing | ||
| Illuminate Content Hub | ||
| Standard Alerting | ||
| Investigation Dashboards | ||
| Workload-Based Pricing | ||
| Log Ingestion (Syslog, Gelf, Beats) | ||
| Premium Support | ||
| Reporting | ||
| Search And Filter | ||
| Security Event Correlation | ||
| Security Investigations | ||
| Streams And Pipelines | ||
| Threat Detection |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Graylog comes out ahead overall, though Splunk can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Graylog offers a free tier; Splunk does not currently list one.
Graylog is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
