Useful cloud logging software
What do you like best about the product?
It is helpful for debugging errors, finding more out about how services interact, and for finding service usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to know the query syntax to get information from certain services, it would be helpful to have a navigator.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps with deploying and monitoring there arent any problems in the logs from the deployments, its also helpful for tracking down what services use your service and the proportion, its also good for tracking errors in the staging environments.
Amazing experience over multiple services for correlation tracking
What do you like best about the product?
I can make requests to see logs over multiple services and consolidate them in one dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is starting to become dated compared to tools like NewRelic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using sumologic primarily for logging and dashboards for our kubernetes microservices. It fits it's purpose very well!
Good tool for observability
What do you like best about the product?
The unified platform integrates logging, metrics and traceability, provides for real time monitoring and is scalable.
What do you dislike about the product?
High costs for data ingestion and requires additional configuration for systems that are non-standard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing a single platform for metrics collection, real time log management and distributed tracing.
The Importance of Value
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and customer support are 2 things that immediately stood out with Sumo Logic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing immediately comes to mind for this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is taking a lot of the manual effort from this process and helping us be more efficient.
Great observability tool!
What do you like best about the product?
I like the current UX it is simple to understand, I also like the query language ie the search syntax. Also has great visualization tools in built which we use.
The integration in our project was also pretty simple. We use it quite frequently to investigate incidents.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI design could be better it seems a bit dated, There could be more of UI feedback on executing queries.
The customer support is something which was a bit hard to reach to as we use it through the client.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the problem of incident investigation and log searches are easy to do. It helps us in monitoring metrics for our applications and have dashboards.
Sumo logic siem
What do you like best about the product?
helps gather application security log and provides real time insight
What do you dislike about the product?
works really well. there are not a features to dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
gathering logs and providing insights
Offers a single dashboard with customizable features and a cost-effective pricing structure
What is our primary use case?
My clients use Sumo Logic Security depending on their needs. Some of my clients are looking for network visibility and observability, while others focus on the security aspects, utilizing the Sumo Logic SIEMs.
What is most valuable?
Sumo Logic Security offers a single dashboard and customization, which are the most valuable features. Additionally, it has a cost-effective structure because it is based on data storage and the number of scans, rather than uploading data. This cost model impacts the customers positively by offering a more straightforward pricing structure.
What needs improvement?
In terms of improvement, feedback indicates there is a need for a local data center in my country. This is crucial to sell to the government and financial sectors as they require data retention within each country.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have approximately three months of experience working with Sumo Logic Security.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is quite high because it is maintained by the vendor.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool has high scalability because everything is based in the cloud.
How was the initial setup?
The security solution is complex because it involves a lot of management. However, compared with other similar solutions, it is quite straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing structure for Sumo Logic Security is based on two elements: data storage and the number of scans. This makes it more cost-effective because other solutions often include a third element in their pricing.
What other advice do I have?
During this evaluation, I considered multiple criteria for the Sumo Logic Security solution. Based on these criteria, I rate the solution as an eight out of ten due to its effective features and pricing.
Works Well, But the Cost and Flexibility Can Be Better
What do you like best about the product?
Sumo Logic is a decent choice for log management and monitoring, especially in cloud-native environments. It’s easy to set up, scales well, and has useful built-in dashboards. Real-time monitoring and anomaly detection work well, but query performance can sometimes be slow, and the learning curve is there.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the downsides is cost—pricing can get steep as log volume grows.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Log management, monitoring, and security analytics challenges.
A great Log mining tool
What do you like best about the product?
Itegration and mining of application logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sumo logic log query syntex is sometime not intutive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mining the logs and debugging the issue.
Good monitoring and log management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Its an all in one place to view your logs in real time, create dashboards etc. I guess there is a lot more it can do, but this is what I've used so far
What do you dislike about the product?
The old UI was really clunky to use. Need to check the new UI properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
getting to view the logs from the containers.