Search Best Practices - Sumo Logic Customer Brown Bag - Logging - Dec 5th, 2023

The speaker welcomes attendees to the Sumo Logic customer session, explains the purpose of the series, and provides an overview of the schedule for customer sessions.

The speaker introduces Jean, a manager of technical account managers (TAMs), who will cover logging best practices. The audience is encouraged to interact via chat, Q&A, and hand-raising during the session.

The speaker discusses the logging levels in Sumo Logic, demonstrating how Sumo Logic automatically detects log levels like error, warning, and info, and assigns metadata tags to messages for easier analysis.

The speaker explains the Field Browser functionality in Sumo Logic, showcasing how to identify and extract fields for more structured and detailed log analysis.

The speaker covers the Log Reduce feature in Sumo Logic, which helps reduce noise by identifying and analyzing message types within a defined scope to pinpoint and address specific errors or issues.

The speaker delves into the concept of partitions in Sumo Logic, illustrating how partitions help in organizing and managing data subsets efficiently, including setting storage tiers and retention periods for different data sets.

The speaker discusses Lookups in Sumo Logic, highlighting how Lookups aid in correlating data from different sources and demonstrating a real-world example of using Lookups for data correlation and error code monitoring.

The speaker explains Scheduled Views in Sumo Logic, which automates query execution at regular intervals, providing pre-aggregated data for efficient analysis, and showcasing the benefits of Scheduled Views for timely data retrieval.

The speaker introduces Search Templates in Sumo Logic, emphasizing how Search Templates streamline querying by enabling users to create predefined search queries for specific use cases, enhancing search efficiency and accuracy.

On a Mac, you can select a group of lines by holding the ALT key to move down multiple lines at once and comment out on multiple lines.

Explaining the use of the Option key on a Mac keyboard to change the cursor to a plus sign and easily drag down to comment out multiple lines at once.

Announcement of upcoming sessions on AWS observability and logging, providing dates for the next sessions on AWS observability and logging topics.