Sumo Logic Expands Data Pipelines to Cut Observability and Security Data Costs

The controls sit inside Sumo Logic's own platform rather than in a separate tool. Sumo Logic said security and operations teams are collecting more telemetry than ever, and it argues that artificial intelligence workloads are steepening that curve. Ingesting everything becomes expensive quickly. The usual alternative, collecting less, saves money until missing data turns out to be what an investigation needs.

Sumo Logic cited a Gartner Inc. report published Sept. 2 that said organizations often default to ingesting all their operational data and analyzing it later. Ingestion and storage costs have made that approach unworkable, the research firm said, and high volumes of poor-quality telemetry hold back generative AI and large language models reading that data. Sumo Logic said it ingests and analyzes close to seven exabytes of data a day for thousands of security and operations customers. What stays out of that flow is now the customer's decision, made before ingestion.

Two capabilities carry the release. A live preview shows what a rule will do to a stream before it is switched on, including routing data to a lower-cost tier or to a destination outside Sumo Logic. An assistant writes those rules, work that Sumo Logic said used to take hours. Anomalies and format shifts in incoming data are flagged as they appear. Recommendations on what to route, transform or drop still go to a person for approval.

Keith Kuchler, Sumo Logic's chief product and technology officer, said the company has spent 15 years turning "exabytes of noise into actionable insights" for customers. AI has made that job harder and more expensive, he said. Moving data strategy decisions upstream, he added, lets teams set the purpose of their data before they pay to keep it.

More is due later this year. Sumo Logic said a visual, AI-assisted way to shape telemetry before it lands in its platform or a customer's own cloud storage will follow, with controls over what gets collected from cloud and edge sources. A platform-neutral version, covering data headed to other vendors' tools, comes after that. An OpenTelemetry-native management layer is also planned, putting collector configuration, monitoring and deployment in one console. Sumo Logic said that removes the cost of running additional agents.

Sumo Logic is owned by Francisco Partners, which took the company private in 2023 for $1.7 billion. The company is showing the expanded pipelines in London this week.