Sumo Logic announced new capabilities that augment analytics-powered use
cases and capture end user experience as part of its Observability solution. As
the requirements for modern application Observability push past the limits of
traditional, siloed APM, monitoring and logging tools, Sumo Logic is
continuously investing to address the evolving needs of customers. Today's
announcement includes Real User Monitoring and Span Analytics, capabilities
designed to help DevOps/SRE teams identify and resolve customer-impacting
issues faster, reduce application downtime and optimize application
performance.
According to Gartner, "Observability by
its very nature must look at the full stack of data available. Looking at a
single layer provides only a silo view. To deliver the digital experience
necessary to remain competitive, enterprises must go beyond infrastructure and
make their digital business observable."
Introducing Sumo Logic Span Analytics
Sumo Logic Span Analytics allows customers
to search, analyze and query both structured and unstructured application data,
including transaction traces, logs and metrics. This provides observers with a
simplified search experience and an ability to filter, transform and aggregate
the span data to uncover unknown unknowns that help them to diagnose and
resolve problems faster.
With this advanced capability:
- Developers can identify issues and troubleshoot
performance problems more quickly by discovering emergent patterns and
relationships that are impossible to pre-define, as legacy tools require.
- Teams can leverage the familiar Sumo Logic Query
Language to interrogate multiple sets of telemetry, from a single console.
- Similarly, teams can skip the Sumo Logic Query
Language and use an intuitive UI to build simple or sophisticated queries
and aggregate results.
Monitoring What Matters: The Real User
Inside-out monitoring can often leave end
users exposed to poor performance. Real User Monitoring (RUM) arms operations
teams with an understanding of the full end-to-end experience of every
transaction, starting with a user's browser click. Sumo Logic RUM provides
high-level insights into user experience with the ability to segment by
geographical region, OS and browser automatically connecting it to backend
troubleshooting information.
With RUM, customers understand the real
user experience and troubleshoot problems that originated in code running in
the browser. This allows teams to:
- Understand the real user web application
performance as experienced in the browser, including network and
interaction specific metrics like UI paint events.
- Visualize the code as run in the browser,
including local or remote requests and full end-to-end transaction tracing
to optimize performance.
- Gather full details about the end-user
geolocation, device and browser, including all details about the URL,
target element and its Xpath indicating the particular component of the
page that was clicked.
"Traditional or siloed monitoring, APM and
log management tools do not provide the visibility required for today's
large-scale applications built on modern architectures, leveraging cloud,
Kubernetes, serverless and open source. A unified approach to observability,
which includes Log, Metrics, Traces and Real User Monitoring, is now table
stakes for teams looking to deliver reliable digital services and best-in-class
customer experiences," said Bruno Kurtic, VP of Strategy and Solutions for Sumo
Logic. "We're excited to roll out new capabilities that bring together digital
experience management and advanced analytics into one easy-to-use
solution."