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Graylog
Company typePrivate
IndustryEnterprise software
Founded2009 (2009)
FoundersLennart Koopmann, Hass Chapman
HeadquartersHouston, Texas, United States
Key people
  • Logan Wray (CEO)
  • Lennart Koopmann (CTO)
  • Kimber Spradlin (CMO)
  • Sam Parikh (COO)
  • Fritz Maxwell (CRO)
ServicesLog Management and Intelligence
Log Analysis
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Number of employees
11-50
Websitewww.graylog.org

Graylog is a log management software company based in Houston, Texas.[1] 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]

Graylog 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.[4][2] The software uses a three-tier architecture and scalable storage based on Elasticsearch and MongoDB.[5][6][4][7][8][9]

Graylog released its first commercial offering in 2016 making its enterprise product available.[10] As of 2018, Graylog has grown to over 35,000 installations worldwide.[10]

Graylog is funded by 6 investors.[11] In October 2014, Mercury made its initial investment in Graylog.[12] e.ventures and Mercury Asset Management are later investors. The other investors were Crosslink Capital, Draper Associates and High-Tech Gründerfonds.[13][14] Graylog has raised a total of $9.4M in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 13, 2018 from a Venture round raising another $5M.[11]

Graylog regularly participates in conferences such as DEF CON,[15] DerbyCon,[16] Black Hat USA,[17] NolaCon,[18] and Security BSides.[19]

See also

References

  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.
  4. ^ a b "What is Graylog?". g2crowd.com.
  5. ^ "Architecture". Graylog 2.4.6 documentation. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  6. ^ "Review: Graylog delivers open source log management for the dedicated do-it-yourselfer". cio.com. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  7. ^ "9 Splunk alternatives for log analysis". infoworld.com. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog". devops.com. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  9. ^ "Graylog - Make Better IT Decisions". infotech.com.
  10. ^ a b "About Graylog - Make Better IT Decisions". graylog.org/about.
  11. ^ a b "Graylog Crunchbase". crunchbase.com.
  12. ^ "Why we invested in Graylog". mercuryfund.com. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Graylog attracts $2.5 mln". penhub.com. Archived from the original on 31 May 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  14. ^ "Software Maker Graylog Raises $2.5M, Moves to Houston from Germany". xconomy.com. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  15. ^ "Demo Labs - Defcon". defcon.org.
  16. ^ "Common WiFi Attacks And How To Detect Them". wtf.horse.
  17. ^ "Graylog with Lennart Koopmann at #BlackHat2016". soundcloud.com.
  18. ^ "Lennart Koopmann". nolacon.com.
  19. ^ "BSides Austin 2018 - 50 Shades of Graylog". bsidesaustin2018.sched.com.