Using Sleeper Cells to Load Test Microservices
In the good old days of monolithic services, basic load testing was relatively straightforward. You’d start your service on a production-like server, maybe a database. Then, you’d point a load...
View Article3 Reasons Why You Need To Bodystorm
Last week I wrote about mapping a Service Blueprint to build a better SaaS product from the “Transforming Customer Experience” training at Cooper U. Another valuable tool we learned is “Bodystorming”....
View ArticleMonitoring and Analytics with the new Sumo Logic Docker App
Hello world! Today at Dockercon SF, we’re excited to announce GA availability of the Sumo Logic Application for Docker! We’ve heard from many customers that comprehensive out-of-the-box visibility and...
View ArticleCan Your Analytics Platform Do This?
Scaling a service can be a double-edged sword. If your app, your game, your online store or your next generation payment service starts to take off, the business team is popping champagne, while the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Apache Log Analytics, Part II
When it comes to IT operations, there are two main categories of Apache log analytics: error monitoring and server optimization. In the first part of this series, we discussed the former. In this...
View ArticleMonitoring AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancers with Log Analytics
In the first article of this series, we introduced the basics of AWS log analytics by correlating logs between S3 and CloudTrail on an Apache application running atop an EC2 server. But, the whole...
View ArticleExplore your Data with Interactive Dashboards
We are excited about one of our newest features, Interactive Dashboards. Interactive Dashboards is the second major release of a longer term project for changing the way Sumo Logic dashboards work....
View ArticleCentralizing Your Application Log Data
As an application developer, you know how important it is to monitor the health and behavior of your application. In addition to catching stack traces, you know that logging custom app events and...
View ArticleCSI: Cloud (Pilot coming soon to your AWS stack.)
You know how they get the bad guys on CSI. We have seen the “police procedural” drama played out so often, it’s almost second nature: Listen to what they say they did. Examine the physical evidence...
View ArticleWhy You Should Add Wire Data to Your Sumo Logic
By Chris Abella, Technical Marketing Engineer, ExtraHop Networks My coworkers and I hooked our coffee maker up to the office Wi-Fi the minute we found out we could (we’re engineers after all). We’re...
View ArticleDelivering a Speedy Site: Sumo Logic On Top of CDN Logs!
Why Do We Need CDNs? Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) distribute web sites and content beyond their origins to data centers and other locations across deserts, oceans and seas. Expanding the...
View ArticleDeploying “Hello, World!” DevOps Style
In the early days of DevOps, Jez Humble described the DevOps movement in an interview with me as “an anti-movement that defies description.” It was at the Agile Alliance 2011 conference in Salt Lake...
View ArticleGood SourceCategory, bad sourceCategory
Setting sourceCategory values, especially for a small set of sources, may seem trivial at first. Good sourceCategory values are however indispensable for scale and performance in the long term. This...
View Article2 Key Principles for Creating Meaningful Alerts
When many of our customers discover real-time alerts, they’re usually so excited to have that kind of visibility into their systems that their first reaction is to set up alerts for whatever they can...
View ArticleWhy Twitter Chose Sumo Logic to Address PCI Compliance
For many businesses, compliance, management and data protection in the cloud have been a major challenge due to the shared responsibility model and automation of public cloud infrastructure. Ensuring...
View ArticleChange Management in a Change-Dominated World
DevOps isn’t just about change — it’s about continuous, automated change. It’s about ongoing stakeholder input and shifting requirements;about rapid response and fluid priorities. In such a...
View ArticleHas SIEM Lost its Magic
Top five reasons why SIEMs are failing security professionals Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions have been around since 2000, and they were developed with the goal of helping...
View ArticleUpdate On Logging With Docker
A Simpler & Better Way In New Docker Logging Drivers, I previously described how to use the new Syslog logging driver introduced in Docker 1.6 to transport container logs to Sumo Logic. Since then,...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Development Environment For You
When starting a project, working as an individual developer provides a level of development freedom that can get quickly complicated when it is time to grow the team. Once you expand to multiple...
View ArticleAutomated Testing in a DevOps World
The objective of automated testing is to simplify as much of the testing effort as possible with a minimum set of scripts. Automated testing tools are capable of executing repeatable tests, reporting...
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