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Customers 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...
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Using 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...
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Integrated 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...
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5 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...
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Getting 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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Integrating Apps with the Sumo Logic Search API
The Sumo Logic Web app provides a search interface that lets you parse logs. This provides a great resource for a lot of use cases — especially because you can take advantage of a rich search syntax,...
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How to Configure a Docker Cluster Using Swarm
If your data center were a beehive, Docker Swarm would be the pheromone that keeps all the bees working efficiently together. Here’s what I mean by that. In some ways, Docker containers are like...
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...
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Getting 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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Managing Container Data Using Docker Data Volumes
Docker data volumes are designed to solve one of the deep paradoxes of containers, which is this: For the very same reasons that containers make apps highly portable — and, by extension, create more...
View ArticleApplication Containers vs. System Containers: Understanding the Difference
When people talk about containers, they usually mean application containers. Docker is automatically associated with application containers and is widely used to package applications and services. But...
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Monitoring and Analyzing Puppet Logs With Sumo Logic
The top Puppet question on ServerFault is How can the little guys effectively learn and use Puppet? Learning Puppet requires learning a DSL that’s thorny enough that the final step in many migrations...
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Working With Field Extraction Rules in Sumo Logic
Field extraction rules compress queries into short phrases, filter out unwanted fields and drastically speed up query times. Fifty at a time can be stored and used in what Sumo Logic calls a “parser...
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Sumo Logic Launches Ultimate Log Bible Project
Greetings Sumo Logic community members, today, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Sumo Logic Log Bible project. ** Put your log expertise to work and win $100! ** Log data contains a wealth...
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Best Practices for Analyzing Elastic Load Balancer Logs
The AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service offers a simple, robust vehicle for performing real-time load balancing of applications hosted within the Amazon Cloud. Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is...
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How We Survived the Dyn DNS Outage
What Happened? On Friday October 21st, Dyn, a major DNS provider, started having trouble due to a DOS attack. Many companies including PagerDuty, Reddit, Twitter, and others suffered significant...
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Logging S3 API Calls with CloudTrail
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3 for short allows for the simple storage of data in many forms. Users can upload and access data through the Amazon console, or by executing calls against the...
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Solaris 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...
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Benchmarking 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...
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