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Elastic vs Sumo Logic: Build vs buy the right logging platform

When it comes to logging tools, organizations often face a classic tech dilemma: build vs. buy. Should you invest in a robust, ready-to-use SaaS solution like Sumo Logic or dive into the customization rabbit hole with a PaaS option like Elastic? It's a debate as old as time—well, as old as software, anyway. Let's break it down in a way that actually makes sense, and hopefully, it’ll spark less drama than the pineapple-on-pizza debate.

Break down barriers to log collection with Sumo Logic's Universal Connector

Today’s dynamic multi-cloud ecosystems receive logs from countless sources. Relying on custom collectors and integrations can lead to tool sprawl, pipeline breakdowns, and time-consuming maintenance. Enter Sumo Logic’s Universal Connector, your streamlined solution for collecting logs from any source. With seamless API integrations, Universal Connector simplifies log collection and eliminates the overhead of building custom pipelines.

Incident Management for Software Engineers: Lessons from Production Fires

A notification "Critical: Payment processing down" is every software engineer's nightmare - a production incident that demands immediate attention. But the truth is that production incidents are inevitable. The question isn't whether they'll happen, but how well you'll respond when they do. In this article I explore the lessons I learned from real-world production fires.

Enhancing Alerts with AI: Leveraging Amazon Bedrock and LLM's for Graylog

In this talk, we’ll explore the cutting-edge work InfusionPoints has done to process and enrich alerts from Graylog using Amazon Bedrock and advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) from Amazon Titan and Anthropic. Discover how we’ve harnessed the power of AI to elevate the accuracy, relevance, and actionable insights of our security alerts, transforming how we respond to potential threats.

Reducing Risk by Prioritizing Use Case Development

The session is really about customers spending their resources wisely, prioritizing use case development based on blind spots, weaknesses, or maybe even just plain audit findings. We have all been guilty in the past of spending a lot of time building clever use cases just for them to never fire or not work out the way we’d hoped; this talk is aimed at highlighting this issue and teach users to focus their resources and build a strategy for development like any other process they would internally.

About us - Sumo Logic

A log on its own is pretty simple, but they're rarely alone. Your digital applications, infrastructure and AI keep adding another, and another, and another… For some teams, this exponential data is overwhelming, causing friction, bottlenecks, and even tuning it all out. But at Sumo Logic, we’re FUELED by the atomic level of logs. The Sumo Logic Log Analytics Platform ingests each and every bit of this structured and unstructured “data exhaust,” transforming it into critical fuel for context-driven insights into your performance, availability, security status, and threats.

Is Your Telemetry Data Strategy Ready for the Next Decade?

What worked for the last 10 years won’t work for the next 10. IT and Security teams face three big challenges with telemetry data: Volume: Telemetry data is growing at a 28% CAGR, while budgets remain flat. Compliance requirements demand retaining massive datasets, straining both storage and costs. Variety: Logs, metrics, traces, configs—telemetry data comes in all shapes and sizes, making it difficult for traditional analytics tools to handle. Your tech needs to manage this complexity seamlessly.

Best Practices for Troubleshooting a Windows Server Upgrade

To upgrade, or not to upgrade. While that may not have been the question that Hamlet asked, it’s one you might be asking. You already made the mistake of asking Reddit, “should I do an in-place upgrade,” and, as expected, people had Big Opinions. A Windows Server Feature Update offers benefits, like performance and analytics. On the other hand, if you have problems, then your attempts can lead to business downtime and service disruption.

Logrotate: Choosing Between Size-Based and Time-Based Log Rotation

Managing log files effectively is crucial for ensuring a well-performing, reliable system. Logrotate, a popular log management tool, provides a flexible way to automatically rotate, compress, and remove old logs. Among its many configurations, two common approaches to trigger log rotation are size-based and time-based rotation. In this blog, we will explore the differences between these methods, compare their use cases, and help you decide which approach (or combination) suits your needs best.

SecOps Standardization Processor

Learn how to standardize data being routed to Google SecOps About observIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.