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Sumo Logic Security pros and cons

Vendor: Sumo Logic
4.2 out of 5
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Pros & Cons summary

Sumo Logic Security enhances error detection with developer access and system visibility, featuring log ingestion, reporting, and threat intelligence integration for robust monitoring. It offers stability, scalability, and technical support, with valuable search options and fast deployment. However, challenges include dashboard customization, complex setup, API delays, and AWS subscription upgrades requiring sales contact. Improvements are needed in advanced log queries.

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PROS

Sumo Logic Security allows developer teams to effectively find and address errors by themselves while offering helpful technical support.
The tool is known for its stability, scalability, and ability to handle stress effectively.
It features customizable search options within logs and ease of implementation.
Sumo Logic Security integrates with threat intelligence solutions and provides valuable connectors for seamless implementation.
It offers reliable monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring proactive problem diagnosis before it impacts customers.

CONS

Dashboards and queries in Sumo Logic Security are difficult to create and need improvements.
Sumo Logic Security's initial setup is stressful and requires a steep learning curve.
Predefined setups for logs would make the log configuration process easier at default.
Improvements are required in API integration, with issues like delayed connections and seamless log collection.
The pricing of Sumo Logic Security is considered high, and there is a need for local data centers to meet government and financial sector requirements.
 

Sumo Logic Security Pros review quotes

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Gustavo Etchudez
Cloud Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 4, 2018
With this tool, we provide access to every developer team the ability to find errors, then they come to us and ask for specific help.
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Tejprakash Sharma
DevOps Engineer at TO THE NEW
Dec 4, 2018
It helps a lot because we can troubleshoot issues pretty easily.
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Infrastrd7f3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastrd7f3
Infrastructure Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 11, 2018
We can ingest logs and make reports out of them. It is a good tool which can help us monitor any issues.
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AwsOpera2176 - PeerSpot reviewer
AwsOpera2176
AWS Operations Engineer at MR
Dec 11, 2018
We use it to ingest Windows domain controller logs. We use this to monitor if anyone is placed in particular administration groups that potentially shouldn't be. It helps us keep track of people.
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Jeffery Statham
Software Architect at Solink
Dec 11, 2018
I have no concerns about the stability of the product. I feel it handles the stress we put on it very well.
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Casey Powell
Engineering Manager at Braintree
Dec 11, 2018
It provides easy visibility. I also like the shareable queries because we share a lot across groups.
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Enterpri9713 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterpri9713
Enterprise Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
We have used it many times to find a root cause of a live issue, then fix the problem in the applications.
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Develope7839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Develope7839
Developer Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 11, 2018
For many of our services, we use Sumo Logic to track errors and send notifications to our Slack channel, if there are issues. Then, we have our support people monitoring this, and they can react quickly.
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VpOfDevO7114 - PeerSpot reviewer
VpOfDevO7114
VP of DevOps Engineering at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Dec 11, 2018
We are able to diagnose problems before our customers.
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it_user1280466 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1280466
Associate Director - Database & DevOps at Medlife
Jun 21, 2020
The solution is quite stable.
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Sumo Logic Security Cons review quotes

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Gustavo Etchudez
Cloud Lead Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 4, 2018
The dashboard has room for improvement, because sometimes it is a difficult to create a specific dashboard or query. This would be a nice place to correct problems.
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Tejprakash Sharma
DevOps Engineer at TO THE NEW
Dec 4, 2018
We would like to have some type of predefined setup for the logs, making the setup easier by default.
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Infrastrd7f3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastrd7f3
Infrastructure Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 11, 2018
I would like to see improvement in the user experience when configuring things, ingesting logs, and creating ports.
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AwsOpera2176 - PeerSpot reviewer
AwsOpera2176
AWS Operations Engineer at MR
Dec 11, 2018
If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved.
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Jeffery Statham
Software Architect at Solink
Dec 11, 2018
It took a bit of trial and error to get it set up correctly based on everything we had to do. In the end, we had to send everything over HTTP, which was sort of a stop-gap.
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Casey Powell
Engineering Manager at Braintree
Dec 11, 2018
There needs to be improvement on imported data which can be used within Sumo Logic to do more advanced queries.
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Enterpri9713 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterpri9713
Enterprise Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
We would like the ability to drill down into a dashboard and get into deeper levels.
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Develope7839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Develope7839
Developer Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 11, 2018
I would like better UI-driven functionality to create alerts and reports. Now, we have to understand the syntax, so it is a little difficult for someone to pick it up without using the manuals. If there was more of a graphical user interface, it would be beneficial.
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VpOfDevO7114 - PeerSpot reviewer
VpOfDevO7114
VP of DevOps Engineering at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Dec 11, 2018
There are some API gaps that are missing.
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it_user1280466 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1280466
Associate Director - Database & DevOps at Medlife
Jun 21, 2020
If you look at some of the other offerings right now that are available in the market, they do offer APM as well as the product they're offering. I believe Sumo Logic is not there yet. So that's something which I would love to see.
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