---
title: "Accessing Graylog"
description: "Accessing Graylog: Simplyblock's control plane includes a Prometheus, Grafana, and Graylog installation Graylog retrieves logs for all control plane and storage."
source: "https://docs.simplyblock.io/latest/non-kubernetes/operations/monitoring/accessing-graylog/"
---

# Accessing Graylog

Simplyblock's control plane includes a Prometheus, Grafana, and Graylog installation.

Graylog retrieves logs for all control plane and storage node services.

The standard retention period for metrics is 7 days. However, this can be changed when creating a cluster.

## How to access Graylog

Graylog can be accessed through all management node API. It is recommended to set up a load balancer with session
stickyness in front of the Graylog installation(s).

```plain title="Graylog URLs"
http://<MGMT_NODE_IP>/graylog
```

### Credentials

The Graylog installation uses the cluster secret as its password for the user _admin_.

If the simplyblock control plane is installed outside Kubernetes, to retrieve the cluster secret, the following
commands should be used:

```bash title="Get the cluster UUID"
sbctl cluster list
```

```bash title="Get the cluster secret"
sbctl cluster get-secret <CLUSTER_ID>
```

**Credentials**<br/>
Username: `admin`<br/>
Password: `<PASSWORD>`