Open Source Projects at Sumo Logic
Someone recently asked me, rather smugly I might add, “who’s ever made money from open source?” At the time I naively answered with the first person who came to mind, which was Rod Johnson, the creator...
View ArticleIntroducing Sumo Logic Live Tail
In my last post I wrote about how DevOps’ emphasis on frequent release cycles leads to the need for more troubleshooting in production, and that developers are being frequently being drawn into that...
View ArticleWho Broke My Test? A Git Bisect Tutorial
Git bisect is a great way to help narrow down who (and what) broke something in your test—and it is incredibly easy to learn. This Git Bisect tutorial will guide you through the basic process. So, what...
View ArticleBuilding Software Release Cycle Health Dashboards in Sumo Logic
Gauging the health and productivity of a software release cycle is notoriously difficult. Atomic age metrics like “man months” and LOCs may be discredited, but they are too often a reflexive response...
View ArticleAWS Elastic Load Balancing: Load Balancer Best Practices
You are probably aware that Amazon Web Services provides Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) as their preferred load balancing solution on the AWS platform. ELB distributes incoming application traffic across...
View ArticleA Beginner’s Guide to GitHub Events
Do you like GitHub, but don’t like having to log in to check on the status of your project or code? GitHub events are your solution. GitHub events provide a handy way to receive automated status...
View ArticleSolaris Containers: What You Need to Know
Solaris and containers may not seem like two words that go together—at least not in this decade. For the past several years, the container conversation has been all about platforms like Docker, CoreOS...
View ArticleBenchmarking Microservices for Fun and Profit
Why should I benchmark microservices? The ultimate goal of benchmarking is to better understand the software, and test out the effects of various optimization techniques for microservices. In this...
View ArticleHow Hudl and Cloud Cruiser use Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics
We launched the Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics (ULM) solution a couple of weeks ago, and we already are seeing massive success and adoption of this solution. So how are how real-world customers...
View ArticleTutorial: How to Run Artifactory as a Container
If you use Artifactory, JFrog’s artifact repository manager, there’s a good chance you’re already invested in a DevOps-inspired workflow. And if you do DevOps, you’re probably interested in...
View Article5 Bintray Security Best Practices
Bintray, JFrog’s software hosting and distribution platform, offers lots of exciting features, like CI integration and REST APIs. If you’re like me, you enjoy thinking about those features much more...
View ArticleGetting Started with AWS Kinesis Streams
In December 2013, Amazon Web Services released Kinesis, a managed, dynamically scalable service for the processing of streaming big data in real-time. Since that time, Amazon has been steadily...
View ArticleUsing Logs to Speed Your DevOps Workflow
Log aggregation and analytics may not be a central part of the DevOps conversation. But effective use of logs is key to leveraging the benefits associated with the DevOps movement and the...
View ArticleIntegrate Azure Functions with Sumo Logic Schedule Search
Azure Functions Azure functions are event driven pieces of code that can used to integrate systems, build APIs, process data and trigger any action/reaction to events without having to worry about...
View ArticleCustomers Share their AWS Logging with Sumo Logic Use Cases
In June Sumo Dojo (our online community) launched a contest to learn more about how our customers are using Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3, ELB, and AWS Lambda. The Sumo Logic service is built on AWS...
View ArticleUsing HTTP Request Builders to Create Repeatable API Workflows
As an API Engineer, you’ve probably spent hours carefully considering how API will be consumed by client software, what data you are making available at which points within particular workflows, and...
View ArticleIntegrated Container Security Monitoring with Twistlock
Twistlock provides dev-to-production security for the container environment. More specifically, The Twistlock container security suite offers 4 major areas of functionality: Vulnerability management...
View Article5 Log Monitoring Moves to Wow Your Business Partner
Looking for some logging moves that will impress your business partner? In this post, we’ll show you a few. But first, a note of caution: If you’re going to wow your business partner, make a visiting...
View ArticleSetting Up a Docker Environment Using Docker Compose
Docker Compose is a handy tool for solving one of the biggest inherent challenges posed by container-based infrastructure. That challenge is this: While Docker containers provide a very easy and...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of SaltStack Logs
SaltStack, also known simply as Salt, is a handy configuration management platform. Written in Python, it’s open source and allows ITOps teams to define “Infrastructure as Code” in order to provision...
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