This document summarizes a Sumo Logic webinar on ingesting and querying host metrics. The webinar covers installing Sumo Logic collectors to ingest host metrics, querying metrics and building dashboards, using the out-of-the-box Host Metrics app, understanding CloudWatch and Graphite protocols, and the metrics feature roadmap. It provides an overview of Sumo Logic's data flow and how customers can currently get custom metrics via Grafana, StatsD, and CollectD integration.
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September 2016
Sumo Logic ”How To” Webinar
Welcome.
To give everyone a
chance to successfully
connect, we’ll start at
10:05 AM Pacific.
Visibility into Your Host
Metrics
Mario Sanchez, Education
Brian Goleno, Product Mgt
Ryan Miller, Engineering
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At the completion of this webinar, you will be able to…
Ingest Host Metrics by installing/upgrading Collectors
(Admin)
Query your Host Metrics and add to Dashboards
Take advantage of the out-of-the-box content
Host Metrics App -> Install and share
Understand CloudWatch and Graphite-protocol metrics
Understand the Metrics Feature Roadmap
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What are Metrics?
Numeric samples of data collected over time.
Can measure infrastructure:
OS performance, disk activity, application performance
Effective tool for monitoring, troubleshooting and identifying root
cause of problems
Gain end-to-end visibility into app performance
Track KPIs over time
Determine if outage has occurred and restore service
Determine why an event occurred and how to prevent in the future
https://help.sumologic.com/Metrics
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Ingesting Host Metrics
Host Metrics ingested through an Installed Collector
No Collector installed?
Install a Collector through the Setup Wizard
Install a Collector Manually
Local Configuration File Management
Collector already installed?
Manually upgrade existing Collector to v19.155 or later
Use Collector Management Script
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Querying your Metrics
Don’t start from scratch! Take advantage Sumo Logic Apps
Out-of-the-Box content for popular sources
Pre-built queries that you can use as templates
Publish your installed Apps to share content with your team
Create Queries that allow you to troubleshoot, identify trends
Create Dashboards that allow you to monitor and visualize you
data
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Graphite
How do customers get custom metrics today?
Grafana
StatsD StatsD Server
Metrics Library
Custom Code
CollectD
OS/Container
Server/Device/Container
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How do you collect Metrics with Sumo Logic?
StatsD
Sumo Collector
Custom Code
Sumo Collector
Server/Device/Container
OS/Container
Host
Metrics
Graphite
Source
Graphite
Source
Graphite
Source
Metrics Library
CollectD
StatsD Server
Cloudwatch
Source
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Metrics Feature Roadmap
This Year
Alerting with Static Thresholds
Outlier Detection
Metrics and Log Overlay
Down the Road
Alerting – Overlay Events on Charts
Historical Baselines
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Questions?
Search Documentation and Training
Library of Past Webinars
Metrics Office Hours on 9/20
Search/Post @ Sumo Dojo
Search, Post, Respond
Submit Feature Requests
Vote for Existing Ones
Open a Support Case
Contact Customer Success
customer-success@sumologic.com
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Pricing & Packaging
Package Free Add-on package
Enterprise 200 DPM per GB/day
~ 1 Detailed host monitoring per GB of data
$15 per month / 1,000 DPM
Professional 50 DPM per GB/day
~ 1 Basic host monitoring per GB of data
$15 per month / 1,000 DPM
Trial 200 DPM per GB/day additional available on request