Graylog, Inc is an American log management and security analytics software company. The company is based in Houston, TX.
Graylog, formerly Torch, was founded in 2009 by Lennart Koopmann and began as an open-source project in Hamburg, Germany.
In October 2014, Mercury made its initial investment in Graylog. e.ventures and Mercury Asset Management became later investors. The other investors were Crosslink Capital, Draper Associates and High-Tech Gründerfonds.
In 2015, the company relocated to Houston, TX.
In 2016, Graylog released its enterprise product as its first commercial offering.
In November 2020, the company appointed Andy Grolnick as its CEO.
Graylog is a source-available, open-core Security Information and Event Management [SIEM] and log management platform, licensed under the Server Side Public License. It collects, indexes, and analyzes structured and unstructured machine data in real time.
The company sells Graylog Open, a freeware product, along with Graylog Operations and Graylog Security, priced based on log ingestion.
The platformâÂÂs architecture includes a core server component, with Graylog Data Node or OpenSearch handling log storage and indexing, and MongoDB managing metadata and configuration.
Graylog lists offices in Houston TX (HQ), Boulder CO, London UK and Hamburg Germany. Andy Grolnick is the company's CEO.