Finding Needles in the the Machine Data Haystack – LogReduce in the Wild
As with any new, innovative feature in a product, it is one thing to say it is helpful for customers – it is quite another to see it in action in the wild. Case in point, I had a great discussion with...
View ArticleHarder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Machine Data Analytics and DevOps
Work It Harder, Make It Better Do It Faster, Makes Us Stronger More Than Ever Hour After Our Work Is Never Over Daft Punk – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” When trying to explain the essence...
View ArticleDirty Haskell Phrasebook
Whenever people ask me whether Hungarian is difficult to learn, I half-jokingly say that it can’t be too hard given that I had learned it by the time I turned three. Having said that, I must admit that...
View ArticleUniversal Collection of Machine Data
Customers love flexibility, especially if that flexibility drives additional business value. In that vein, today we announced an expansion of our log data collection capabilities with our hosted HTTPS...
View ArticleSending CloudPassage Halo Event Logs to Sumo Logic
The below is a guest post from CloudPassage. Automating your server security is about more than just one great tool – it’s also about linking together multiple tools to empower you with the information...
View ArticleSumo Logic meets StatsD – DevOps tools Unite!
Of all of the new tools spawned by the DevOps movement, I find Etsy’s open-source tool, statsd, the most interesting. The enterprise software market is being shaken to its foundation, and statsd is one...
View ArticleSecuring Protected Health Information
Pharmacy networks, electronic medical records, third-party billing, referrals— the medical establishment in this country runs on shared data. To ensure the safety and proper use of all of this highly...
View ArticleFrom Academia to Sumo Logic
While I was wrapping up my Ph.D. thesis, my girlfriend (now wife) and I decided that we wanted to leave Germany to live and work in a different country. Prior to my Ph.D., I started off in computer...
View ArticleLogs and laundry: What you don’t know can hurt you
Have you ever put your cell phone through the wash? Personally, I’ve done it. Twice. What did I learn, finally? To always double-check where I put my iPhone before I turn on the washing machine....
View ArticleDo logs have a schema?
As human beings, we share quite a few life events that we keep track of, like birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and so on. These are structured events that occur on exact dates or during specific...
View ArticleSumo Logic Anomaly Detection is now in Beta!
What is “anomaly detection”? Here is how the peeps on the interweb and wikipedia define it: Anomaly detection (also known as outlier detection) is the search for events which do not conform to an...
View ArticleMeatballs And Flying Tacos Don’t Make a Cloud
Yes, we are cloud and proud. Puppies, ponies, rainbows, unicorns. We got them all. And this, too. But the cloud is not a personal choice for us at Sumo Logic. It is an imperative. An imperative to...
View ArticleAkamai and Sumo Logic integrate for real-time application insights!
I’m very pleased to announce our strategic alliance with Akamai. Our integrated solution delivers a unified view of application availability, performance, security, and business analytics based on...
View ArticleA Sort of Homecoming: Back From Akamai Edge
This is my first blog post for Sumo Logic. It took 18 months but I was always a late bloomer and we have some Hemingway-class bloggers on staff anyway. No doubt I was shy as my music production...
View ArticleUsing the Join Operator
The powerful analytics capabilities of the Sumo Logic platform have always provided the greatest insights into your machine data. Recently we added an operator – bringing the essence of a SQL JOIN to...
View ArticleSumo Logic Application for AWS CloudTrail
Cloud is opaque One of the biggest adoption barriers of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS is the opaqueness and lack of visibility into changes and activities that affect cloud infrastructure. While running an...
View ArticleWhat CIOs (and I) Can Learn From Healthcare.gov
There is little debate that the “Obamacare” rollout has been choppy at best. Regardless of which side of the political debate you fall, many of us in technology, CIOs and software executives alike,...
View ArticleBlack Friday, Cyber Monday and Machine Data Intelligence
The annual craze of getting up at 4am to either stand in line or shop online for the “best” holiday deals is upon us. I know first-hand, because my daughter and I have participated in this ritual for...
View ArticleOpen Source in the Sumo Logic UI
Startups are well-known for being go fast, release and iterate. Having quality engineers at Sumo Logic is a big part of doing that well enough that customers want our solution, but like many other...
View ArticleSumo Logic Deployment Infrastructure and Practices
Introduction Here at Sumo Logic, we run a log management service that ingests and indexes many terabytes of data a day; our customers then use our service to query and analyze all of this data....
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