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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sumo Logic

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Sensu

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Sensu, now from Sumo Logic (acquired in June of 2021) is presented as a future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline is used by businesses to automate their monitoring workflows and gain visibility into their multi-cloud environments. The vendor boasts companies like Sony, Box.com, and Activision use Sensu to help deliver value to their customers. Sensu offers a comprehensive monitoring solution for enterprises, providing visibility across every…N/A
    Pricing
    Sumo LogicSensu
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sumo LogicSensu
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Sumo LogicSensu
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Sumo LogicSensu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Sumo LogicSensu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Sumo Logic
    • Well suited for raising pagers when you have count-based metrics.
    • Well suited for threshold-based metrics.
    • Not well suited for tracking events over the day, since graphs and other visualizations are missing.
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    Pros
    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Sumo Logic
    • Unique concept as a "monitoring router" that can tie services together.
    • Backward-compatible with Nagios environments.
    • More of a DevOps focus than Nagios.
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    Cons
    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
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    Sumo Logic
    • Cannot be solely used for tracking metrics over time.
    • Not a very good UI.
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    Usability
    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
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    Support Rating
    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    Sumo Logic
    Sensu's customer support was always willing to work with us but never really seemed to learn much from our experiences. I think they get a lot of customers with DevOps IT teams that are willing to put in a lot of elbow grease to get the most of Sensu's architecture. However, despite explaining my continued disappointment with their documentation and the overall flow of the product, I never got much more than a "sorry" and a notice that their documentation was open source if I wanted to contribute to it. The problem, of course, is that you can't document what you don't understand. I'm a former technical writer, so I know that better than most.
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    Implementation Rating
    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Sumo Logic
    Have used New Relic and Sematext Cloud for APM and for tracking over days and visualizing the issues. But those are very expensive as compared to Sensu.
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    Professional Services
    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Sumo Logic
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    Return on Investment
    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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    Sumo Logic
    • Standing up the Sensu Go server took very little effort.
    • Setting up and maintaining the build processes and deployment logic for Sensu assets and checks was somewhat exhausting and resulted in lower adoption among non-DevOps IT.
    • The limited web interface resulted in lower adoption among non-DevOps IT.
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    ScreenShots

    Sensu Screenshots

    Screenshot of Sensu dashboard homepageScreenshot of Sensu dashboard namespace switcherScreenshot of Sensu events displayed in Grafana. In the examples above, Sensu is comfortably handling 40,000 Sensu agent connections (and their keepalives) and processing over 36,000 events per second.Screenshot of Sensu events displayed in Grafana. In the examples above, Sensu is comfortably handling 40,000 Sensu agent connections (and their keepalives) and processing over 36,000 events per second.