Gravwell
Log monitoring software
Security information and event management (SIEM) software
Log analysis software
System security software
DevSecOps software
Monitoring software
- Features
- Ease of use
- Ease of management
- Quality of support
- Affordability
- Market presence
Take the quiz to check if Gravwell and its alternatives fit your requirements.
$35,000 per indexer per year
Free Trial unavailable
Free version
Small
Medium
Large
- Energy and utilities
- Public sector and nonprofit organizations
- Information technology and software
What is Gravwell
Gravwell is a log and telemetry data platform used for security monitoring, incident investigation, and operational troubleshooting. It ingests and indexes machine data from multiple sources and provides search, dashboards, and analytics workflows for analysts and engineers. The product emphasizes flexible ingestion (including structured and unstructured data) and a query language designed for high-volume event exploration. It is typically used by security teams and DevOps/DevSecOps teams that need to investigate events across endpoints, networks, and infrastructure.
Flexible ingestion for many sources
Gravwell supports collecting data from diverse inputs, including common log formats and network/security telemetry. This helps teams centralize investigation data without requiring every source to fit a single schema upfront. The approach can reduce friction when onboarding new data types during incident response or exploratory monitoring.
Investigation-oriented search and analytics
The platform provides interactive search and analytics features aimed at pivoting through events during investigations. Its query capabilities support filtering, aggregation, and time-based exploration that security analysts and SREs commonly need. This makes it suitable for ad hoc analysis in addition to scheduled dashboards and reports.
Works for security and ops
Gravwell is positioned to serve both SIEM-style security use cases and operational log analysis/monitoring. Teams can use the same data store and tooling for threat hunting, incident triage, and troubleshooting service issues. This can simplify tooling sprawl compared with running separate products for security analytics and log analysis.
Smaller ecosystem and integrations
Compared with larger observability and SIEM platforms, Gravwell generally has a smaller third-party integration ecosystem. Organizations may need to build or customize collectors, parsers, or workflows for certain tools and cloud services. This can increase implementation effort in heterogeneous environments.
Query language learning curve
Gravwell’s investigation workflow relies on learning its query model and analytics patterns. Teams accustomed to other query syntaxes may require training to become productive. This can slow initial adoption for organizations with many occasional users.
Less emphasis on full APM suite
While Gravwell covers logs and security/telemetry analytics, it is not primarily an application performance monitoring suite with deep code-level tracing features. Organizations seeking end-to-end APM (metrics, traces, profiling, and automated service maps) may need additional tooling. This can matter for teams prioritizing developer-centric performance diagnostics over log-centric investigation.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition (Free) | $0 — Free (13.9 GB/day standard; CE Advanced: 50 GB/day) | Full core Gravwell features; self-hosted; free for personal and commercial use; limited ingest tier and limited to a single indexer for the free tier; obtain license/download. |
| Professional (Pro) | Starting at $35,000 per indexer/year (older published starting price) — current site points to contact sales | Self-hosted; unlimited data ingestion per paid indexer; unlimited retention, searches, users, automations; SSO; tiered storage; high-availability options; contact sales for exact quote. |
| Enterprise | Starting at $70,000 per indexer/year (older published starting price) — current site points to contact sales | Optimized for critical environments and SOCs; high-availability search, online replication, region-aware redundancy, enhanced multi-tenancy, distributed web frontends; contact sales for exact quote. |
| Cloud (Hosted) | $70,000+ per year (older published guidance) — current site points to contact sales | Gravwell-managed hosting; same core capabilities as paid editions with Gravwell-managed infrastructure; minimal passthrough cloud costs; contact sales for quote. |
