INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sumo Logic has long held the goal to help customers understand their data wherever it lives
As we move into the era of containers, that goal becomes more challenging because containers by their nature are ephemeral
The company announced a product enhancement today designed to instrument containerized applications in spite of that.
They are debuting
these new features at DockerCon, Docker customer conference taking place this week in San Francisco.
Sumo CEO Ramin Sayer sayscontainers
have begun to take hold over the last 12-18 months with Docker and Kubernetes emerging as tools of choice
Given their popularity, Sumo wants to be able to work with them
&[Docker and Kubernetes] are by far the most standard things that have developed in any new shop, or any existing shop that wants to build
a brand new modern app or wants to lift and shift an app from on prem [to the cloud], or have the ability to migrate workloads from Vendor A
platform to Vendor B,& he said.
He not wrong of course
Containers and Kubernetes have been taking off in a big way over the last 18 months and developers and operations alike have struggled to
instrument these apps to understand how they behave.
&But as that standardization of adoption of that technology has come about, it makes it
easier for us to understand how to instrument, collect, analyze, and more importantly, start to provide industry benchmarks,& Sayer
explained.
They do this by avoiding the use of agents
Regardless of how you run your application, whether in a VM or a container, Sumo is able to capture the data and give you feedback you might
otherwise have trouble retrieving.
Screen shot: Sumo Logic (cropped)
The company has built in native support for Kubernetes and Amazon
Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)
It also supports the open source tool Prometheus favored by Kubernetes users to extract metrics and metadata
The goal of the Sumo tool is to help customers fix issues faster and reduce downtime.
As they work with this technology, they can begin to
understand norms and pass that information onto customers
&We can guide them and give them best practices and tips, not just on what they&ve done, but how they compare to other users on Sumo,& he
said.
Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 and has raised $230 million, according to data on Crunchbase
Its most recent round was a $70 million Series F led by Sapphire Ventures last June.
