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		crudbug on Feb 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA I had the same question. Why are they using MongoDB when Elasticsearch can do the same job, may be better.

real_joschi on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

We don't want to use ES too much as Graylog should still work when ES has some problems. It's currently the default output but that may change in the future for special use cases.

That being said, we're aware that many people don't like the dependency on MongoDB and we'll work on that.

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