Sumo Logic's architecture features an elastic petabyte scale platform that collects, manages, and analyzes enterprise log data, reducing millions of log lines into operational and security insights in real time. Their cloud-based approach overcomes the inherent problems of premises-based solutions, including limits on scalability, inefficient or haphazard analysis, and uncontrolled costs. Sumo Logic is built around a globally distributed data retention architecture that keeps all log data available for instant analysis, eliminating the need for an enterprise to manage the cost and complexity of data archiving, backups and restoration. The service is entirely cloud-based and is maintenance free. Instead of inelastic security information and event management systems, Sumo Logic employs elastic processing to collect, manage, and analyze log data, regardless of type, volume, or location. Sumo Logic modeled its approach on that of Google, according to Christian Beedgen, the company's CTO and one of its co-founders. Using advanced machine-learning algorithms to whittle down mountains of log file data into common groupings, Sumo Logic's platform mirrors Google News's categorization of news stories distributed across the web. In doing so, Sumo Logic is able to ease the process for administrators to synthesize and analyze their data. In June 2012, Sumo Logic announced Sumo Logic Free, a freemium full functionality edition of its analytical solution that is deployed on Amazon Web Services, and in August 2012, the company announced Sumo Logic for VMware, which allows enterprises to search, visualize and analyze all VMware logs in real time so they can monitor and detect events within VMware virtual environments. In 2016, Sumo Logic launched a data analytics platform that unifies logs and metrics to analyze structured metrics data and unstructured log data in real-time through graphical, interactive dashboards. At the AWS 2017 conference, Sumo Logic presented its machine data analytics service which combines analytics of Docker and Kubernetes. The service streamlines data ingestion for Sumo Logic's machine data analytics service hosted on Amazon Web Services. In 2018, Sumo Logic announced the expansion of integrations with the Google Cloud Platform, releasing integrations with GCP applications, and an integration with TensorFlow. In September 2018, Sumo Logic announced the addition of a cloudSIEM solution to its machine data analytics platform. Sumo Logic works with The Pokémon Company to provide analytics for Pokémon GO, including threats, security vulnerabilities, log aggregation, and security analytics. In April 2019, Sumo Logic launched a bidirectional integration for Atlassian’s OpsGenie incident alert service. This integration gives users the ability to create and analyze the alerts and incident data.
Funding
While Sumo Logic remained in stealth mode for two years, it unveiled its cloud-based log management platform with Series B funding of $15 million in January 2012. The round of Series E funding announced in June 2015 brings the company's total venture capital backing to $160.5 million. On June 27 the company closed its Series F round for $75 million and is on path to IPO. In May 2019, Sumo Logic announced a $110 million Series G investment and indicated that its valuation was "north of a billion dollars".
Leadership
Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by a technical leadership team with expertise in log management, scalable systems, Big Data and security, including:
Ramin Sayar, formerly of VMware, is Sumo Logic's CEO since December 2014. Previously, Vance Loiselle, formerly of BladeLogic, was CEO between May 2012 and December 2014. Sumo Logic's advisory board consists of Joan Pepin and Meagen Eisenberg.
Patents
Sumo Logic's service is powered by patent-pending Elastic Log Processing, LogReduce, and Push Analytics technologies.
Awards and recognition
In January, 2012, RSA named Sumo Logic one of its top 10 finalists for the Most Innovative Company at RSA. At the April 2012Under the Radar Conference, Sumo Logic received the Judge's Choice and the Audience Choice Awards for Performance Monitoring. In May 2012, Sumo Logic was named a Red Herring Americas 2012 Top 100 Winner. In May 7, 2014, Sumo Logic was named as a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the Application Performance Monitoring and IT Operations Analytics categories. In 2019, Fortune named Sumo Logic one of the 50 Best Workplaces in Technology. The same year, Forbes placed Sumo Logic on its Cloud 100 list.
