This month has seen the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) host Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam. 

As part of the wider drive to get hold of more CNCF tooling, many developers were also looking to the expansive CNCF partner community to listen for updates, enhancements, augmentations and extras.

Among the protagonists in this space was Sumo Logic, the company that now describes itself as a provider of a SaaS analytics platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications.

Consolidated collection 

The firm announced it has taken steps to attempt to remove complexity from data collection, improved the normalization of data and provide consolidated collection agents with OpenTelemetry. 

In terms of its system observability prowess, Sumo Logic was purpose-built to manage and analyze data from any source. That being said then, this is Sumo Logic extending that legacy by adopting OpenTelemetry as its de facto collection strategy to remove complexity in the collection and normalization of data. With Sumo Logic Distro for OT, a native OTel solution, users can apply Sumo Logic flexibility and analytics to their vendor of choice. 

“Sumo Logic has made a commitment to its customers and the community to develop and deliver on OTel-native collection so that customers can realize value, quickly,” said Erez Barak, VP of product development for observability at Sumo Logic. “These enhancements will make it possible for Sumo Logic to deliver choice and flexibility while continuing to provide comprehensive infrastructure and application monitoring. The best OTel-native experiences run on Sumo Logic.”

Onboarding data with OpenTelemetry 

With nearly 30 apps related to database, server, or infrastructure monitoring powered by OTel, Sumo Logic Distro for OT provides a single collector for telemetry. Now, with support for Windows, customers using Sumo Logic Distro for OT can gather logs, metrics and traces from Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems, which can be configured utilizing the new onboarding workflows.

According to Barak and team, a single, OTel-based collection strategy is important for application observability and infrastructure monitoring. 

“Onboarding data and setting up collection from various sources can be complex as users juggle disparate backends or libraries and may be limited by proprietary tools. Sumo Logic’s unified agent makes it easier to consolidate into one platform for observability use cases instead of disparate monitoring tools for logs or Application Performance Management (APM). Through a single app installation workflow for logs, metrics and traces, Sumo Logic makes it easier for developers to harness data and takes the complexity out of deploying OpenTelemetry as a collection strategy,” notes Sumo Logic, in a technical statement. 

Fewer steps to onboarding heaven

Upbeat about the breadth of its market offering, the Sumo Logic boys and girls also tell us that its platform reduces the number of manual steps in the data onboarding process. Each step – Collector Setup, Source Configuration, Dashboard Setup – is now folded into a single workflow allowing users to onboard data in under five minutes. 

By standardizing on OTel-native collection, developers get a simplified installation to onboard data and set up data collection on Sumo Logic.

Read about Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Collector here for more.