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AWS spot instances are a great way to optimize AWS costs, however, you risk an increase in service disruptions. See how we tested and monitored AWS spot instances to get the best of both worlds.

Over the past decade, the software development landscape has shifted dramatically. Long development cycles resulting in big releases are now a thing of the past. Instead, the focus is on delivering value to the customer quickly and efficiently through small releases delivered at a high frequency.

At Sumo, the metric we use at the base of unit economics is the number of logs ingested by our customers. Our data pipeline continuously reports its ingestion statistics in a form of loglines fed into an internal organization in one of our deployments, making it easy to query them later on.

In today's digital transformation journey, observability has emerged as the hot topic. The ability to capture, analyze and correlate all of your machine data is critical to ensure you can meet your reliability objectives. Every level of the application stack emits logs, metrics, traces, and events. The collection of all of these signals is the first step of having an observable system.

Imagine you are an on-call engineer, who receives an alert at 3 AM in the morning informing you that customers are experiencing high latency on your website, and are unable to shop.

HAProxy is one of the fastest and most widely-used load balancing solutions available today. If you’re already using HAProxy, or if you’re considering using HAProxy in your environment, then this is a great place to start. On this page, we discuss HAProxy logging and why logging is such a vital component of the load balancer implementation. We then take a deep dive into the logging offered by HAProxy. Finally, you’ll read about working with the HAProxy logging format and how you can configure the logging to suit your needs better.

Sumo Logic is excited to announce that it has achieved the New York State Department of Financial Services Attestation to support our customers’ abilities to meet privacy and security requirements for critical data.

As part of the move to the cloud, everything in the enterprise is being transformed—from infrastructure all the way to modern application development. Nowhere is this change more important than in the role of the CISO.

In this article, we will explain the basic characteristics of Redis, MongoDB, and Cassandra databases. In addition, we will show you how to collect and monitor the logs that these databases produce using Sumo Logic’s unified logs and metrics (ULM) offering and related apps.

HAProxy is one of the world’s most innovative and highest-performing load balancing solutions. The load balancer is critical for enabling high availability and supporting the dynamic scaling of infrastructure within modern applications. Because of its importance, engineers need tools that can quickly and effectively diagnose any problems with the load balancer if they arise.

Red Hat OpenShift is an open source container application platform that incorporates a collection of software that enables developers the ability to run an entire Kubernetes environment. It includes streamlined workflows to help teams get to production faster and is tested with dozens of technologies while providing a robust tightly-integrated platform supported over a 9-year lifecycle.

We all know how our life has changed in the last two decades in terms of how we interact with our vendors for day to day activities, regardless if we shop for a birthday present or read a newspaper. This digital transformation of everything we do increased even more during the pandemic, when it appeared that a malfunctioning digital access channel can often mean lack of possibility to enter certain places like even the country or a plane to get back home.

What better way is there to get insight into your app performance than by leveraging the traffic management tools connecting your apps to your customers? With Sumo Logic and NGINX, you can easily get information on the health of your apps and save valuable time.