Sumo Logic Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Sumo Logic is a log management and data analytics software that creates information based on data feeds. It assesses server, application and website performances by creating graphs and charts. It creates alerts when data reaches certain levels which in turn notify of potential threats/downtime.

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Engineer

Poor account management. Performance can be very bad for searches over large data sets or long timeframes.

Sr. Test Engineer I

You can search in complex or basic queries so it is good for both new and experienced users. Searching is powerful and fast and user data can be shared with the organization.

Senior Software Engineer

The search time is pretty good, where it searches in huge dumps of data and return a good result set.

Solutions Architect

It worked great and did just about anything I wanted it to do.

Data Analyst

In addition, you can analyze every log and mine all useful data. It integrates seamlessly with cloud providers and you get the most done with AWS right by your side.

Software Engineer

The queries can be difficult to compose sometimes.

vmware / cloud administrator

Especially the costing of frequent/infrequent/contimuous tier. Integration is bit difficult , but our folks worked together to integrate sumologic for pur business needs.

Staff

The API integration can be difficult to leverage the more advanced features, such as log monitoring.

Elastic Security

I really like how Sumo logic works it's fast and intuitive

Sumo Logic easy to search logs and find issues

It worked great and did just about anything I wanted it to do. 

Expensive but the best 

Quick search your logs

Overall Sumo Logic helped us get the certification our company required and the support was great compared to competitors. It seems to be lagging in features of comparable tools but can compete on price.

Sumologic is a leader in threat detection

Application logs pushing to a centralized location & analyzing the logs , troubleshoot using dashboards which solves our application related troubleshooting in a easier way.

Excellent log analysis tool if you are affordable in pricing.

This sumo helped us fight our way to visibility

It was a great product to do continuous analytics with the large data ingested. 

Continuous analytics Software does the log reporting better. 

Overall this tool fantastic.  It's powerful and is approachable by both the experienced and inexperienced.  Once you get into the deeper functionality, you can do pretty much whatever needs to be done with this tool.  Just make sure you set it up correctly and what the potential billing pitfalls and your business will be better for having this tool.

A Powerful Tool

Excellent software

We use Sumo Logic to monitor our web-based application. This comprises of a monitoring and alerting tool for engineers and visualising usage spikes for internal display to stakeholders. 

Very Clear Dashboard

Not many out of the box dashboards

An ideal solution for scaling up things when it comes to cloud operations and analytics. 

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Great product for logging

This is a very good value for money log searching tool for startup and small businesses 

Good Way to Visualize Logs

A great tracker for internal logs 

I have generated multiple Dashboards for real time analytics of cloud watch logs.
We were able to carve out business trends and it led us into process improvement.

Hassle free integeration with AWS

Not intuitive for data retrieval

Logs Made simple

I use Sumo Logic to ingest logs across a fleet of about 125 servers, including Windows and Linux servers. Setup was pretty straightforward. Documentation is detailed and complete. Customer support and tech support are mostly competent and cooperative. I'd definitely recommend this product, especially to smaller startups or businesses that can't or don't want to implement their own logging server infrastructure.

Flexible and detailed log analysis software for System Administrators

Powerful tool to help you get the most out of your application logs

We are handling logs of our several applications at the same time and making a map for common occurrences. This is good for analyzing where we need to improve. It has helped in monitoring of our servers and finding the faults fast. 

Excellent logging integration with Sumo Logic

Heavyweight in monitoring 

we are able to look at our ELB logs and make decisions

Really good Logger with robust features and much recommended for All team sizes. 

SumoLogic is very help to analyse the log as a centralized place

Devops Engineer

Matt:                                                  Hi, I'm Matt. I'm a DevOps engineer. I give Sumo Logic a four out of five. For more reviews like this, click below.
                                                       Before we were using Sumo Logic, we were using GCP Stackdriver, and it wasn't working because we weren't able to combine our other third party source, his logs, into Stackdriver. We also weren't able to get security threats from Stackdriver. We chose Sumo Logic because a lot of people on our team had past experience with Sumo Logic. The price was competitive, compared to the other competitors in the field. We've liked the query language and the onboarding experience was pretty solid. They had some knowledgeable people.
                                                       Getting started with Sumo Logic, we had to add a helm chart to our GKE cluster. We added that to all prod clusters. That took a little bit of time, but it was pretty straightforward, and they'd give you the helm chart. We also had to categorize all of our sources in GCP, GitHub, and Google Admin, and then after everything was categorized, they could be fed into Sumo and then we could do log analysis.
                                                       My advice for anyone getting Sumo Logic would be start by categorizing all your sources before anything goes into Sumo Logic, because it's much easier to categorize them on the way in than it would be to categorize them when everything's in Sumo Logic's JSON format. The other advice I would have is there's more competitors in the field. When I looked at Sumo Logic about two years ago, I know Datadog now has a seam that competes with Sumo Logic, so price-wise, I'm not sure if they're still the best option.

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