Forward-looking companies are embracing reliability management. Learn how they're measuring business outcomes rather than system performance.

Since various versions of lockdown around the world kicked in, we’ve all been forced to learn how to live as if we’ve just awoke from a deep stasis into a new reality in which everything on earth works differently. It was nearly that abrupt. And if there was ever evidence of how business adaptability is related to business success, it is now.

Today, we are facing an unprecedented situation. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everything we know -- our families, our businesses, our communities, and our way of life.

As businesses transform their traditional business models into new digital ones, and aggressively compete for turf within the digital economy, their constant pursuit of competitive edge drives technology, process, and architectural innovations. As a result, it seems that every 18 months a technology paradigm shift comes about that enables better agility, lower cost, improved quality of service, better intelligence and more.

A few blogs posts ago I wrote about new BI for digital companies and in that blog I alluded that quite a bit of that BI is based on log data. I wanted to follow up on the topic of logs, why they exist and why they contain so much data that is relevant to BI.

First time this year, multi-cloud enterprises, as a customer segment of Sumo Logic, have grown faster than any other segment: 50% Y/Y. What took so long? In my conversations with enterprises over the last 5 years, there was only one strategy for public cloud and it was multi-cloud. But evidence of multi-cloud usage was sparse at best. Data from our Continuous Intelligence Report in previous years didn’t find much to support that the strategy for multi-cloud was being implemented.

Today we speak about observability explicitly in terms of DevOps/SRE. So, what is the objective of observability for DevOps engineers or SREs? The answer to that one hides behind the acronym itself … Site Reliability.

Sumo Logic app for AWS Elastic Load Balancing takes raw log data & presents it in visual dashboards for real-time insights into operations & status codes.