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Machine Data Analytics, Down Under
Not often have I spent two weeks in August in a “winter” climate, but it was a great opportunity to spend some time with our new team in Australia, visit with prospects, customers and partners, and...
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How To Add Sumo Logic To A Dockerized App
This is a guest post from Caleb Sotelo who is a software engineer at OpenX and has been reprinted with his permission. You can view the original here. Sumo Logic is a nifty service that makes it...
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No Magic: Regular Expressions, Part 2
The code for this post, as well as the post itself, are on github. Converting the Parse Tree to an NFA In the last post, we transformed the flat string representation of a regular expression to the...
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Four Ways to Collect Docker Logs in Sumo Logic
Docker is incredibly popular right now and is changing the way sysadmins, developers and engineers go about their day to day lives. This walkthrough isn’t going to introduce you to Docker, I’ll assume...
View ArticleDebugging to Customer Hugging – Becoming an SE
“I know app developers, and that’s not you!” It was a statement that I couldn’t really argue with, and it was coming from one of my closest friends. It didn’t matter that I was employed in a career as...
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No Magic: Regular Expressions, Part 3
Evaluating the NFA In part 1, we parsed the regular expression into an abstract syntax tree. In part 2, we converted that syntax tree into an NFA. Now it’s time evaluate that NFA against a potential...
View ArticleWhy TuneIn Chose Sumo Logic For Machine Data Analytics
The following is a guest post from Mike Cook, Director of Technical Operations at TuneIn. Introduction TuneIn is a rapidly growing service that allows consumers to listen to over 100,000 radio stations...
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New MySQL App – now GA!
Just check out the MySQL website and you’ll understand why we added a new app to the Sumo Logic Application Library for MySQL: MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with over...
View ArticleChanging Representation
I don’t deal in veiled motives — I really like information theory. A lot. It’s been an invaluable conceptual tool for almost every area of my work; and I’m going to try to convince you of its...
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Piercing the Fog in a Devops World
Two things still amaze me about the San Francisco Bay area two years on after moving here from the east coast – the blindingly blue, cloudless skies – and the fog. It is hard to describe how beautiful...
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Secret Santa – The Math Behind The Game
It’s that time of year again! Time for Secret Santa. After all, what shows off your holiday spirit better than exchanging gifts in August? As you attempt to organize your friends into a Secret Santa...
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LogReduce vs Shellshock
Shellshock is the latest catastrophic vulnerability to hit the Internet. Following so closely on the heels of Heartbleed, it serves as a reminder of how dynamic information security can be. (NOTE:...
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Why Do DevOps Shops Care About Machine Data Analytics?
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...
View ArticleWe are Shellshock Bash Bug Free Here at Sumo Logic, but What about You?
Be Aware and Be Prepared I am betting most of you have heard about the recent “Shellshock Bash Bug”. If not, here is why you should care – this bug has affected users of Bash, which is one of the most...
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Debugging Amazon SES message delivery using Sumo Logic
We at Sumo Logic use Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) for sending thousands of emails every day for things like search results, alerts, account notifications etc. We need to monitor SES to ensure...
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Cloud Log Management for Control Freaks
The following is a guest post from Bright Fulton, Director of Engineering Operations at Swipely. Like other teams that value their time and focus, Swipely Engineering strongly prefers partnering...
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The Three Questions Customers Invariably Ask Us
For almost all DevOps, App Ops and Security teams, finding that needle in the haystack, that indicator of cause, the unseen effect, and finding it quickly is fundamental to their success. Our central...
View ArticleScala at Sumo: type class law for reliable abstractions
Abstraction is a fundamental concept in software development. Identifying and building abstractions well-suited to the problem at hand can make the difference between clear, maintainable code and a...
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Machine Data Intelligence – an update on our journey
In 1965, Dr. Hubert Dreyfus, a professor of philosophy at MIT, later at Berkeley, was hired by RAND Corporation to explore the issue of artificial intelligence. He wrote a 90-page paper called...
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Become Friends with Metadata to Maximize Efficiency in Sumo Logic
While performing my duties on-boarding our Sumo Free users, I’ve learned that the most consistent process that our users wish to eliminate prior to using our service is investigating incidents within...
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