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The observability and cybersecurity sector is chock full of providers from startups like StateStack and Coralogix to established organizations like Datadog, Sumo Logic and Splunk, offering solutions with capabilities of various depth and breadth that are solving the tough problems of application reliability and security.

Managing logs is a significant part of an SRE's daily grind. Scattered within heaps of log data are invaluable insights - those small bits of information that can unveil underlying issues and patterns critical for system monitoring and troubleshooting. However, in an era where the volume of logs is astronomical, how do you discern the relevant from the irrelevant? Sumo Logic's array of log analytics features comes to the rescue, wielding the might of artificial intelligence.

Let’s face it, when that alert goes off at 2:58am, abruptly shaking you out of a deep slumber because of a high-priority issue hitting the application, you’re not 100% “on”. You need to shake the fog out of your head to focus on the urgent task of fixing the problem. This is where having the best log analytics tool can take on some of that cognitive load. Sumo Logic recently released new features specific to our Log Search queries that automatically detect log levels.