Graylog, Inc is a

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software company based in Houston, Texas. Their main product is a log management software which is also called Graylog (styled as ''graylog'').

History

Graylog, formerly Torch, was founded in 2009 by Lennart Koopmann and began as an open-source project in Hamburg, Germany. The headquarters are in Houston, Texas. In October 2014, Mercury made its initial investment in Graylog.

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and

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are later investors. The other investors were

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Draper Associates Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ),

and High-Tech Gründerfonds. Graylog released its first commercial offering in 2016 making its enterprise product available. As of 2018, Graylog has grown to over 35,000 installations worldwide. Graylog regularly participates in conferences such as

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, Black Hat USA, NolaCon, and

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Graylog log management software

The Graylog software 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. The software uses a three-tier architecture and scalable storage based on

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and

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Graylog log management software

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