# What options or tools are available to analyze Graylog log data?
**URL:** https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906 "2021-12-01T14:06:06Z")
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### Author:  [@code40love](https://community.graylog.org/u/code40love)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906/1 "2021-12-01T14:06:06Z")
I am investigating options for analyzing the Graylog log data.
My company asked me to research Lumberjack, but from what I read, this is deprecated. What is the replacement for it?
How can we parse API usage data from Graylog?
What do we need to include in our logging to ensure it can parse the request?
Graylog v3.3.8+e223f85
OS: Centos 7
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### Author:  [@gsmith](https://community.graylog.org/u/gsmith)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906/2 "2021-12-02T00:16:25Z")
Hello && Welcome
> [@code40love](#):
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> research Lumberjack, but from what I read, this is deprecated. What is the replacement for it?
Lumberjack didn’t that go out in 2014? I would use Graylog 🙂
> [@code40love](#):
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> How can we parse API usage data from Graylog?
You can find more about the API here
[https://docs.graylog.org/v1/docs/rest-api](https://docs.graylog.org/v1/docs/rest-api)
> [@code40love](#):
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> What do we need to include in our logging to ensure it can parse the request?
Depends on what you want to request. This would start on how you configured your environment meaning your Graylog setup, what your using to ship logs, what kind of devices that are send logs.
Over all what do you want to use a logging server for. Sometimes its not just the API but how you set up your server. I would suggest looking at this documentation first.
[Architectural Considerations](https://docs.graylog.org/docs/architecture)
As for a better understanding about Graylog API here are some post that may help…
> **[Rest API](https://graylog.org/features/api/)**
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> Graylog has a comprehensive and robust REST API.
> **[HTTP JSON Web API Input](https://graylog.org/videos/http-json-web-api-input/)**
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> Thinking Outside the Box For this example, I wanted to think outside of the box and show you an example how Graylog can be used to capture logs or data through anAPI and have it represented in a dashboard. JSON Web APIs have become a very popular...
I believe the links above may enlighten you on these question. If not gives us some more details and maybe we can give you a direct answer. I personally have not used API’s that much but I know other have.
Hope that helps
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### Author:  [@tellistone](https://community.graylog.org/u/tellistone)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906/3 "2021-12-02T16:58:54Z")
Hello there,
May I ask sort of data are you looking to extract?
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### Author:  [@Arie](https://community.graylog.org/u/Arie)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906/4 "2021-12-03T08:26:11Z")
Not knowing what you exactly heading for, it is possible to directly connect to your elasticseach with kibana en search your data and build dashes if one wants to. If one wants to narrow parsing than enrich your data or ingest it into separate fields, if it not already is.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/what-options-or-tools-are-available-to-analyze-graylog-log-data/21906/5 "2021-12-17T08:26:24Z")
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