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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Comparing a Multi-Tenant SaaS Solution vs. Single Tenant

Let me preface this article with a quick customer story. I was recently talking with the director of operations of a G2000 company and he asked in a nice, but pointed way: “All I want is a SaaS software solution to manage my applications. Why does the architecture of the software matter?”. At Sumo Logic, we couldn’t agree and disagree more.

How you can take back control over your log analytics with AI

We’ve all been there — you’re on-call, fast asleep at 3 AM when suddenly, in comes the alerts–in overdrive. Your system is notifying you of some sort of abnormal behavior, but with all the alerts and data coming through, its difficult to figure out what your system is trying to tell you. Is there potential malicious behavior? Did someone write faulty code? Is it an important issue or can it wait? Is it nothing at all?

Getting more value from your Stackdriver logs with structured data

Logs contain some of the most valuable data available to developers, DevOps practitioners, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and security teams, particularly when troubleshooting an incident. It’s not always easy to extract and use, though. One common challenge is that many log entries are blobs of unstructured text, making it difficult to extract the relevant information when you need it.

Sumo Logic: The Machine Data Analytics Platform for Modern Applications

You've decided to run your business in the cloud to leverage all the benefits the cloud enables – speed to rapidly scale as your business grows; elasticity to handle the buying cycles of your customers; and the ability to offload the data center management headaches to someone else so you can focus your time, energy and innovation on building a great customer experience.

Garbage Collection Settings for Elasticsearch Master Nodes

Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC tuning, especially when it turns out there simply isn’t enough heap, there are exceptions. We found that G1 GC, for example, works well on big heaps. This allows you to have less, bigger nodes, which in turn means less network traffic in a large cluster.

Sumo Logic Announces Search Templates to Improve the Customer Experience with Better, Faster Application Insights

Providing the ultimate customer experience is the goal of every modern company, and to do that they need complete visibility into every aspect of their business. At Sumo Logic, we make it our mission to democratize machine data and make it available for everyone, which allows organizations to gain the required visibility at each step. That’s why today, we are excited to announce the availability of Search Templates to our customers.