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Logentries vs Sumo Logic: What are the differences?

What is Logentries? Real-time log management and analytics built for the cloud. Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

What is Sumo Logic? Cloud Log Management for Application Logs and IT Log Data. Cloud-based machine data analytics platform that enables companies to proactively identify availability and performance issues in their infrastructure, improve their security posture and enhance application rollouts. Companies using Sumo Logic reduce their mean-time-to-resolution by 50% and can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, annually. Customers include Netflix, Medallia, Orange, and GoGo Inflight.

Logentries and Sumo Logic can be primarily classified as "Log Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Logentries are:

  • Logs as Metrics - Extract field level values, analyze them using powerful search functions, and visualize them with detailed dashboards.
  • Dynamic Log Correlation - Dynamically group and correlate your logs in a single dashboard, or aggregate logs from a particular system to give an end-to-end view.
  • Live Tail - View your streaming logs in real-time and highlight important events to easily see errors or exceptions in your live data.

On the other hand, Sumo Logic provides the following key features:

  • Ability to collect data from on-premise sources, private/public/hybrid clouds, and SaaS/PaaS environments
  • Real-time continuous query engine that constantly updates dashboards and reports for immediate visualization
  • Anomaly detection engine that enables companies to proactively uncover events without writing rules

"Log search" is the top reason why over 31 developers like Logentries, while over 8 developers mention "Search capabilities" as the leading cause for choosing Sumo Logic.

According to the StackShare community, Logentries has a broader approval, being mentioned in 136 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Sumo Logic, which is listed in 57 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Logentries
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    Log search
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    Live logs
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    Easy setup
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Easy setup, independent of existing logging setup
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    Free
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    Pci 3.0 compliant
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    Easy to setup

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Cons of Logentries
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      Expensive
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      Occasionally unreliable log ingestion
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    What is Logentries?

    Logentries makes machine-generated log data easily accessible to IT operations, development, and business analysis teams of all sizes. With the broadest platform support and an open API, Logentries brings the value of log-level data to any system, to any team member, and to a community of more than 25,000 worldwide users.

    What is Sumo Logic?

    Cloud-based machine data analytics platform that enables companies to proactively identify availability and performance issues in their infrastructure, improve their security posture and enhance application rollouts. Companies using Sumo Logic reduce their mean-time-to-resolution by 50% and can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, annually. Customers include Netflix, Medallia, Orange, and GoGo Inflight.

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