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Elastic vs Graylog

Elastic sells Elastic Security, an open, agentic security operations platform that offers SIEM, endpoint security, and native automation. Graylog sells SIEM and log management. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Elastic vs Graylog: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
ElasticElastic sells Elastic Security, an open, agentic security operations platform that offers SIEM, endpoint security, and native automation.elastic.coGraylogGraylog sells SIEM and log management.graylog.org
What it sells
  • Elastic Security[1][3][5][13]An open, agentic security operations platform that offers SIEM, endpoint security, and native automation.
  • SIEM[1][5]A SIEM offered as part of the Elastic Security platform.
  • Elastic XDR[1]Elastic XDR investigates and surfaces findings for approval when something slips through.
  • Attack Discovery[1]Correlates alerts into attack chains.
  • Cloud detection and response[5]A capability of Elastic Security that takes a vendor-agnostic, data-centric approach to cloud security.
  • Elastic Observability[3]Elastic Observability covers logs, metrics, traces, and APM.
  • Elasticsearch[3][7]A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine.
  • Graylog Enterprise[3][5][6]Log management and compliance for operations teams.
  • Graylog Security[3][6]SIEM for lean security teams.
Categories
Headquarters
Not stated on its pagesHouston, United States[2]
Founded
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Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • October 7, 2026Elastic introduced AlertZero, an AI SOC automation feature for Elastic Security that uses four agents, each with one job.[13]
  • October 13, 2026Graylog launched the Verascend Incident System together with Graylog v7.2, which turns correlated, risk-scored events into prioritized cases.[9]
  • March 18, 2026Graylog announced advances in explainable AI and automated investigation workflows aimed at small-to-mid-sized security teams.[8]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[14]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen October 25, 2026[4]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Financial institutions are a named audience, with Elastic saying it helps them harness all their data to uncover insights and optimize operations. Security teams that already run cloud security tools can bring their analytics into Elastic Security. Elastic offers deployment in the cloud, on-premises, or serverless for organizations that require a particular environment.From its own pages, Graylog sells mainly to lean teams covering security, IT, and audit. Graylog Enterprise is aimed at operations teams needing enterprise-grade log management and compliance, and Graylog Security at lean security teams needing a SIEM. Deployment can be cloud-native, on-premises, or hybrid, and Graylog names GDPR and DORA data residency requirements among the needs it addresses.
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November 3, 2026November 9, 2026

Where they overlap

  • SIEM is the primary category of both Elastic and Graylog.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Elastic is also filed under EDR and XDR and SOAR and security automation. Graylog is also filed under AI SOC analysts.
  • Elastic lists Elastic Security, SIEM, Elastic XDR, Attack Discovery, Cloud detection and response and 2 more. Graylog lists Graylog Enterprise and Graylog Security.
  • Graylog is headquartered in Houston, United States.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Elastic under SIEM, EDR and XDR, and SOAR and security automation, with SIEM as its primary category, while it files Graylog under SIEM and AI SOC analysts, also with SIEM as primary. Elastic sells Elastic Security, a platform that offers SIEM, endpoint security, and native automation, alongside Elasticsearch and Elastic Observability.

Elastic's security product includes XDR, Attack Discovery, which correlates alerts into attack chains, and a cloud detection and response capability. Elastic also sells Elasticsearch, which covers enterprise search, vector search, vector database, and RAG, and Elastic Observability, which covers logs, metrics, traces, and APM. Graylog describes its security side as turning alerts that point at the same thing into a single incident, and its operations side as collecting evidence on one timeline. Graylog Enterprise includes a built-in data lake that stores years of logs on AWS or Azure Blob. Graylog is headquartered in Houston, United States.

Elastic can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or serverless, and Graylog Enterprise runs cloud-native, on-premises, or hybrid. Graylog says it sells mainly to lean teams covering security, IT, and audit, and names GDPR and DORA data residency among the needs it addresses. On October 7, 2026, Elastic introduced AlertZero, an AI SOC automation feature for Elastic Security that uses four agents.

What it sells: Elastic

What Elastic Security does[1][3][5][13]
Agents work the full lifecycle from ingestion through response and show how they got there. The platform includes native SIEM, XDR, and automation capabilities.
What SIEM does[1][5]
Elastic Security chases down alerts, finds correlations and gives visibility into what it found. Elastic Security offers continuous monitoring and detection across cloud workloads, containers, infrastructure, network traffic, APIs, audits, and system logs, directly within the SIEM.
What Elastic XDR does[1]
When something slips through, Elastic XDR and the agentic layer investigate and surface findings for approval. Elastic Security offers endpoint security as part of its platform.
What Elastic Observability does[3]
Elastic Observability is one of three solutions that Elastic offers. Elastic Observability is available via Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, or self-managed deployment.
What Elasticsearch does[3][7]
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that can store every shape of data efficiently. Elasticsearch is the core component of the Elastic Stack and is built on Apache Lucene, an open source search library. Elasticsearch covers enterprise search, vector search, vector database, and RAG.

What it sells: Graylog

What Graylog Enterprise does[3][5][6]
Graylog Enterprise is for operations teams needing enterprise-grade log management and compliance. It runs cloud-native, on-premises, or hybrid with full feature parity across every deployment model. It includes a built-in data lake that stores years of logs on AWS or Azure Blob without counting against the license.
What Graylog Security does[3][6]
Graylog Security is for lean security teams needing security information and event management (SIEM). A single Graylog Consumption Unit can be redeemed for 20 GB of Graylog Security.

Questions about Elastic and Graylog

What do Elastic and Graylog sell?
Elastic sells Elastic Security, SIEM, Elastic XDR, Attack Discovery, Cloud detection and response and 2 more. Graylog sells Graylog Enterprise and Graylog Security.
Are Elastic and Graylog in the same category?
Yes. SIEM is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Elastic and Graylog headquartered?
Graylog is headquartered in Houston, United States.
Who are Elastic and Graylog sold to?
Financial institutions are a named audience, with Elastic saying it helps them harness all their data to uncover insights and optimize operations. From its own pages, Graylog sells mainly to lean teams covering security, IT, and audit.
What have Elastic and Graylog announced recently?
October 7, 2026: Elastic introduced AlertZero, an AI SOC automation feature for Elastic Security that uses four agents, each with one job. October 13, 2026: Graylog launched the Verascend Incident System together with Graylog v7.2, which turns correlated, risk-scored events into prioritized cases.

About Elastic

Elastic sells Elastic Security, an open, agentic security operations platform that offers SIEM, endpoint security, and native automation. Elastic offers three solutions: Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. Elasticsearch is the search and analytics engine that Elastic builds. Elasticsearch is the core component of the Elastic Stack and is built on Apache Lucene, an open source search library. Elastic Observability covers logs, metrics, traces, and APM, and Elasticsearch covers enterprise search, vector search, vector database, and RAG.[1][3][12]

Elastic Security includes native SIEM, XDR, and automation capabilities. Elastic Security lets customers use their data with the LLM of their choice, including frontier or on-premise models. Elastic Security has 400+ prebuilt integrations to support an existing toolset. Elastic Security integrations normalize data and include prebuilt dashboards, so a team can investigate a new source without writing parsers. Elastic describes a problem where detection, investigation, and response are spread across separate tools and context gets lost between them.[1][5]

Elastic Security chases down alerts, finds correlations and gives visibility into what it found. Attack Discovery correlates alerts into attack chains and investigates the activity behind them. When something slips through, Elastic XDR and the agentic layer investigate and surface findings for approval. Elastic Security users can create agents or automate their security operations using Workflows.[1][4]

Elastic Security has a cloud detection and response (CDR) capability that takes a vendor-agnostic, data-centric approach to cloud security with agentless integration. Elastic Security can integrate cloud analytics from existing tools.[5]

Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security are available via Elastic Cloud Serverless, Elastic Cloud Hosted, or self-managed deployment. Elastic Cloud Hosted deploys on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. The Elastic platform runs in the cloud, on-premises, or serverless. Elastic on AWS runs prebuilt SaaS solutions for search, observability, and security. Elastic on Microsoft Azure deploys Elasticsearch directly within the Azure portal. Elastic Cloud receives data through native integrations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Kibana is the shared visualization and management UI across all Elastic solutions, and data is ingested via Elastic Agent, Beats, or Logstash.[3][6][7][8]

Elastic is FedRAMP Moderate Authorized on AWS GovCloud (US) and has received an in-process designation for FedRAMP High. Elastic is an authorized CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) where it assigns CVE IDs to vulnerabilities. Many organizations use the Elastic Stack as their central security analytics platform. Sitecore uses Elastic in its Security Operations Center. Sitecore has used more than 400 use cases from the Elastic open-source community and has written more than 60 custom use cases.[1][2][3][5][6][9][10][11]

Elastic on the record

Sources

Elastic full record

  1. [1]Elastic Security: Agentic SIEM, EDR, XDR, and automation | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]AboutElastic · elastic.co · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Elastic: The search database for AI | Search, AI agents, Observability, and Security | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Elastic Cloud Serverless pricing for Elastic Security | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Cloud security analytics for (CDR) | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI in financial services: Elastic for AI-powered search | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Official Elastic Cloud pricing — compare serverless and hosted offerings | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Elasticsearch Integrations | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Product Security at Elastic | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Elasticsearch GDPR and Elastic Stack GDPR Compliance | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Sitecore protects IT platforms and reduces security costs with Elastic | Elastic CustomersElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Migrate to Elastic across any cloud | ElasticElastic · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Blogs | Elastic Security LabsElastic Security Labs · published October 7, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Elastic Email Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Graylog full record

  1. [1]Graylog brings explainable ai and automated investigations to lean security teamsGraylog · graylog.org · published March 18, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Graylog and soc prime form exclusive partnershipGraylog · graylog.org · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Graylog | SIEM & Enterprise Log ManagementGraylog · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Graylog Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 25, 2026 · Tier C
  5. [5]Advanced Log Management & Real-Time AnalysisGraylog · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Graylog Pricing Plans & Features ComparisonGraylog · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Watchlists in Graylog SecurityGraylog · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Graylog Brings Explainable AI and Automated Investigations to Lean Security TeamsGraylog · published March 18, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Graylog v7.2 launches the Verascend™ Incident System, transforming how security teams detect and respond to threatsGraylog · published October 13, 2026 · Tier A

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