Introduction
The IT industry is always changing, and at the forefront today is the DevOps movement. The whole idea of DevOps is centered around helping businesses become more responsive to user requests and adapt faster to market conditions. Successful DevOps rollouts count on the ability to rapidly diagnose application issues that are hidden in machine data. Thus, the ability to quickly uncover patterns and anomalies in your logs is paramount. As a result, DevOps shops are fast becoming a sweet spot for us. Yes, DevOps can mean so many things – lean IT methodologies, agile software development, programmable architectures, a sharing culture and more. At the root of it all is data, especially machine data.
DevOps job trends have literally exploded onto the scene, as the graphic below indicates.
In the midst of this relatively recent boom, DevOps teams have been searching for tools that help them to fulfill their requirements. Sumo Logic is a DevOps shop and at DevOps Days in Austin, we detailed our our own DevOps scale-up. We covered everything from culture change, to spreading knowledge and the issues that we faced. The result has been that our machine data analytics service is not only incredibly useful to us as a DevOps organization but provides deep insights for any organization looking to optimize its processes.
Sumo Logic At Work In A DevOps Setting
The very notion of software development has been rocked to its core by DevOps, and that has been enabled by rapid analysis in the development lifecycle. Sumo Logic makes it possible to easily integrate visibility into any software infrastructure and monitor the effects of changes throughout development, test and production environments. Data analysis can now cast a wide net and with our custom dashboards and flexible integration, can take place anywhere you can put code. Rapid cause-and-effect, rapid error counts, and rapid analysis mean rapid software development and code updating. If user performance has been an issue, DevOps and Sumo Logic can address those experiences as well through analytic insight from relevant data sources in your environment. That makes for better software for your company and your customers. It also means happier developers and we know that hasn’t traditionally been an easy task.
Sumo Logic offers an enterprise scale cloud-based product that grows as a business grows. TuneIn, a well-known internet radio and podcast platform utilizes Sumo Logic, and in a recent guest post, their development teams shared how they used our technology to create custom searches and alerts for errors and exceptions in the logs, allowing them to reduce overall error rates by close to twenty percent. Another Sumo Logic customer, PagerDuty shared their story of a rapid Sumo Logic DevOps deployment and reaching their ROI point in under a month:
Flexibility, speed, scalability, and extensibility – these are the kind of qualities in their commercial tools that DevOps shops are looking for. Netskope is a cloud based security company and a DevOps shop that has integrated Sumo Logic into their cloud infrastructure. In this video, they describe the value of Sumo Logic to provide instant feedback into the performance and availability of their application.
Today, DevOps teams around the world are using Sumo Logic to deliver the insights they need on demand. With Sumo Logic supporting DevOps teams throughout their application lifecycle, organizations are able to deliver on the promise of their applications and fulfill their business goals.