Sumo Logic Manages and Analyses Log Data In Real-Time.

SumoLogic is a cloud-based service that collects, manages and analyses log data in real-time. It allows companies to analyse all their log data from different apps, networks or systems, regardless of type, volume or location.

Their tools offer companies with insights that companies can act upon immediately. They use patent-pending technologies and their service can be deployed instantly, scales easily and requires no maintenance.

They claim their logfile analyses work on a petabyte scale and since all logs are stored in the cloud, companies do not have to worry about data archiving, backups or restores. Their technology boils a massive amount of log files into a handful and digestible patterns that allow companies to find important system, application and user behaviour that otherwise would have remained in the chaos of all data created by log files.

The company was founded by Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen. Before, Kumar Saurabh has been Director of Engineering at ArcSight and Christian Beedgen worked as a Chief Architect also at ArcSight. In 2012 they were named among the top 100 tech startups in North America by Red Herring.

It looks like that Sumo Logic has found a new way to provide companies with insights into the massive amounts of logs created by all applications used within companies. This information can provide companies with a head start. However, making hundreds of thousands log files visible and understandable does require companies to act upon it and to use it to their advantage.