This is an archive of the 2022 Sumo Logic Service Release Notes.
To view the full Service Release Notes archive, click here.
December 29, 2022 (Real User Monitoring)
New - We've added a new Real User Monitoring script property, getOverriddenServiceName
, that allows you to set up a service name dynamically and override the service name of a span during its creation.
You can use getOverriddenServiceName
to create different services for different sub-parts of your website. For example, you could create unique service names for micro-frontends. Learn more.
December 22, 2022 (CircleCI Job Analytics)
New - You can now report CircleCI job analytics to your Sumo Logic dashboard using our new job-collector command, which sends environment, team, and service information at the job level.
Add this command to your job with the environment, team, or service custom-data values as parameters. This command will run with the rest of the job's commands for sending the job log.
Not including this command at the job level will send empty custom-data values to Sumo.
To learn more, refer to the Sumo Logic orb repo.
December 14, 2022 (Traces)
New - Trace duration breakdown chart dashboard support is now available.
On the Trace page, you can now add the trace duration breakdown chart to the dashboard. Use the Traces panel and change the chart type to "Breakdown Chart" in the dropdown of Visual settings.
December 5, 2022 (Metrics)
New - We’ve released a new chart type for metrics queries. The funnel chart is useful for visualizing the status of a process with sequential steps. For more information, see Create a Funnel Chart.
December 2, 2022 (Reliability Management)
New - AWS ELB users can now install Sumo Logic out-of-the-box SLOs and associated monitors using our new Terraform script.
This script allows you to install Sumo Logic SLOs in your specified AWS ELB directory and configure SLO alert notifications (e.g., latency limit breached, server error limit breached). Once installed, you can view and edit your SLO alerts via Terraform or from your Sumo Logic Monitors page.
To learn more about our SLOs, see Sumo Logic Reliability management.
December 2, 2022 (Manage)
Update - On November 10, we released improvements to the Account Overview page. Now, an admin for a parent org can see detailed usage of Sumo Credits for different product variables, aggregated across child orgs from the start of the contract period. Another nice enhancement: the Account Overview page now also presents Promotional Credits consumption. For more information, see Create and Manage Orgs.
December 1, 2022 (Metrics)
Update - As of December 1, 2022, metrics ingested to Sumo Logic must include the metric
dimension.
If you send metrics without the metric
dimension, Sumo Logic will ingest them, and set the metric
dimension value to undefined. We plan to deprecate and filter these metrics at a later date.
There are benefits to including the metric
dimension: it improves the structure of queries, dashboards, and monitors. In addition, the presence of the metric
dimension can significantly improve query latency and monitor evaluation time.
For more information, see Mandatory metric name.
November 30, 2022 (Metrics)
New - We're pleased to announce a new chart type for metric queries. A heat map visualizes the count of data points returned by a metrics query within specified value ranges over time intervals of a specified duration. For more information, see Create a Heat Map.
November 29, 2022 (Metrics)
Update - Good news! We've increased the number of Metrics Monitors that Enterprise and Trial accounts can have, from 500 to 1,500. For more information, see Monitors.
November 28, 2022 (Metrics)
Update - We've updated the logic used to calculate input data limits for metrics queries. This new method enables higher cardinality limits for time series inputs to metric queries. For more information, see Metrics Query Error Messages.
November 22, 2022 (Apps)
Update - We are pleased to announce that the Sumo Logic Lambda Extension has been updated to support collecting telemetry data using the new AWS Lambda Telemetry API. With this update, you can collect telemetry data, including logs, metrics, and traces in JSON format directly from the Lambda execution level. The extension gives a per-invoke level view of the Lambda function and provides insights into the function and execution environment lifecycle. For more information on how to start using it, refer to our documentation.
November 21, 2022 (Alerts)
New - We’ve rolled out a feature that allows you to customize your Alert list page to display (by default) only the alerts that you care about, rather than showing all the open alerts within your organization.
You can do this by going to your Monitors page or Alerts page and subscribing to the specific monitors you'd like to follow.
With this release, we've also updated our Alert notification preferences to give you more granular control over specific monitor activity you want to follow.
November 18, 2022 (Traces)
Update - Tracing dashboards now offer native support for OpenTelemetry's deployment.environment
standard tag.
OpenTelemetry deployment.environment
is a helpful way of slicing APM data between environments (e.g. dev vs prod). Previously, this was supported in tracing metrics as metadata and available for custom queries and dashboards, and now it's supported in our out-of-the-box dashboards as well.
- New Explore view: APM: Environment View
- New dashboard elements
...across environments
and...within environment
show data sliced or filtered for recognized environments environment
added to Entity Inspector as new entityenvironment
filter added to all drill-down views- Application Service View and Service Application View renamed to APM: Application view and APM: Service View, respectively. Both views now have a hierarchy level with
deployment.environment
.
Learn more:
November 15, 2022 (Traces)
New - We've released an OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Operator for tracing instrumentation. When you enable and install this operator, your application is instrumented automatically and traces will be sent to Sumo Logic. Learn more.
October 27, 2022 (Metrics)
Update - We’ve enhanced the Metrics Explorer to make metric query results easier to interpret. Now, you can define Warning and Critical threshold values for query results. When you do that, your chart view will be color-coded so you can easily spot out-of-threshold behavior. For more information, see Set Warning and Critical Thresholds.
October 19, 2022 (Collection)
New - We’ve released a new Cloud-to-Cloud connector for Slack. The source uses the Slack Web API to collect channel, user, and message information from a Slack workspace. If you have a Slack Enterprise Grid license, the source also collects Security audit events across all of your Slack workspaces. For more information, see Slack Source.
October 19, 2022 (Apps)
New - We are pleased to announce the availability of the Sumo Logic App for SailPoint. The Sumo Logic App for SailPoint helps you monitor the user events, actions, operations, failed logins, successful logins, and user activities to your applications through SailPoint.
October 18, 2022 (Apps)
New - We are pleased to announce the availability of the Sumo Logic App for CyberArk EPM. This new cloud-to-cloud connector uses Cyberark APIs to retrieve administrative audit events from every Set in your CyberArk environment.
October 14, 2022 (Search)
Update - We’ve made multiple updates to the Search Results Table to improve the user experience for viewing search results. The enhancements include:
- The ability to pin columns of interest.
- New setting to increase line height for messages.
- New table level options to expand and collapse messages.
- Context menu option to expand nested JSON.
October 14, 2022 (Manage)
Update - We’ve released an improvement that eases the processes of administering and monitoring Sumo Logic Orgs. To streamline the child org provisioning process, we added support for auto-provisioning Cloud SIEM instances for both enterprise and MSSP customers.
October 7, 2022 (Manage)
Update - We’ve released an improved, re-organized UI for Data Forwarding. There are now separate pages for managing different types of data forwarding destinations:
- Destinations that receive data forwarded from Sumo Logic partitions or scheduled views are still managed on the Manage Data > Logs > Data Forwarding page.
- Destinations that receive data from Installed Collectors are managed on a new page: Manage Data > Collection > Data Archiving page.
For more information, see Forward Data from Sumo Logic to S3.
October 3, 2022 (Search)
Update - Hash rules now support 256 for OpenTelemetry collectors.
September 27, 2022 (Metrics)
New - We're happy to announce two new metrics operators:
- ewma—Computes an exponentially weighted moving average on a stream of metrics. This allows you to smooth out short-term fluctuations (outliers) and display long-term trends.
- where—Allows you to filter data points by value.
September 27, 2022 (Observability)
Update - We are announcing a minor update of the AWS Observability 2.5.1. This contains changes required due to the end of support for Node.js 12.x in the AWS Lambda as announced here by AWS. As part of this update, the Node.js runtime environment for AWS Observability Lambda functions has been updated to 16.x. For more information on updating the AWS Observability to the latest version, see Update AWS Observability Stack.
September 19, 2022 (Manage)
Update - We've improved out Access Key UI to make it easy to spot Access Keys that haven't been used lately. Now the Access Keys management page displays the date and time an Access Key was last used to make a request to an API endpoint. For more information, see Access Keys.
In a future update, Sumo Logic will, by default, automatically disable Access Keys that have not been used for 30 days. Your Sumo Logic admin will be able to configure the period of time before an unused key will be disabled.
September 15, 2022 (Apps)
Update - GitHub Advanced Security dashboards are now available for the Sumo Logic App for GitHub. These new dashboards include Code Scanning Alerts, Pushes, Secret Scanning Alerts, Security and analyzes and Repository Vulnerability alerts.
September 12, 2022 (Alerts)
New - We’re happy to announce the release of Alert Grouping, which allows you to generate more than one alert from a given monitor by specifying a group condition on one or more fields. For example, rather than creating multiple monitors for each service
, you could create one single monitor that notifies you when some metric (i.e., CPU utilization, error count) goes above the threshold for a given service
. Learn more.
New - Configurable Resolution Window for Logs allows more quickly resolve alerts when the underlying issues are fixed. You can configure how long a monitor will wait, before resolving the alert, when the underlying issues was corrected (earlier the monitor waited one complete window before resolving). Learn more.
New - You can now access your monitor playbook as a template variable, {{playbook}}
. You can reference this template variable to customize your notification payloads similar to any other template variable. Learn more.
September 9, 2022 (Apps)
New - LambdaTest allows you to analyze your testing behavior and error trends. LambdaTest is a continuous quality testing cloud platform that helps developers and testers ship code faster. The LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable, and insightful test orchestration for customers at different points in their DevOps (CI/CD) lifecycle.
New - we’re happy to announce the release of the Sumo Logic App for AWS Cost Explorer, which allows you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
With the Sumo Logic App for AWS Cost Explorer, you can use our out-of-the-box dashboards as well as filtering and grouping capabilities to dive deeper into your cost and usage data and generate custom insights. Gain a better understanding of your cost trends and see detailed information about the costs and usage associated with your top cost-accruing AWS accounts, regions, services, and operations.
Update - We are happy to announce the release of a new Explore Hierarchy for Database Application Components, together with the support of related Database Entities in Entity Inspector. This functionality allows you to organize your data in a structured hierarchy and utilize the database dashboards available out-of-the-box from App Catalog. Currently, the following Database engines are supported by this feature:
- Cassandra
- Couchbase
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- SQL Server
- MariaDB
- Memcached
- Oracle
If you already use one of the above apps, you will need to reinstall it to benefit from the newly added functionality.
September 8, 2022 (Traces)
New - we're happy to share extended coverage for Real User Monitoring (RUM), our solution that provides insight into your users' end-to-end browser experience interacting with your web apps. New RUM capabilities include:
- New dashboard panels for the following metrics:
- XHR timing
- longtask delays (browser freezes)
- Core Web Vitals KPIs
- Geolocation
- Single-page app support:
- Monitoring of XHR calls and navigation/route changes
- XHR performance and availability metrics
- New specific Action names for XHR actions ("Click on [button] on [page]") and single-page app navigation/route change actions ("Route to [page]")
- New Explore tree levels for three new action types: document loads, XHR actions and route changes
- Browsers errors (e.g., unhandled errors/rejections, failed resources, console errors) are now captured automatically and populated in the
_index=sumologic_rum_errors
log index and dashboards- Browser errors ingest volume is now added to your Continuous Tiers budgets and credits consumption.
This new functionality requires RUM script in version 4 or higher (https://rum.sumologic.com/sumologic-rum-v4.js
). Please ensure you are using the correct version in your pages. For automatic updates, use https://rum.sumologic.com/sumologic-rum.js
.
August 30, 2022 (Metrics)
We're delighted to announce the availability of these new operators:
- stddev — Calculates the standard deviation of the metrics values that match the query.
- in — You can use this operator in a metrics query selector as shorthand for multiple OR conditions.
August 25, 2022 (Collection)
Update - We are pleased to announce that the following Cloud-to-Cloud Integration Framework sources are now available in Sumo Logic’s FedRAMP deployment:
August 17, 2022 (Search)
Update - For Enterprise Suite customers, we’ve doubled the number of Fields you can create. The per account Fields limit is now 400. The limit applies to Fields that you configure for sources or collectors and those you create using Field Extraction Rules.
August 8, 2022 (Search)
The new UI for creating and managing Scheduled Views that we described in our August 4 release note has been released.
August 5, 2022 (Apps)
New - We’re happy to announce the release of the Sumo Logic App for Host Metrics (EC2). This App allows you to collect your EC2 instance metrics using Sumo Logic Installed Collector and display them using predefined search queries and Dashboards. The App provides Dashboards to analyze EC2 instance metrics for CPU, disk, memory, and network.
Update - We are glad to update that the Sumo Logic App for MongoDB Atlas now allows you to monitor database operations and performance KPIs and provides visibility into the security posture of your clusters.
August 3, 2022 (Observability)
New - We're thrilled to announce our new Observability feature, Reliability Management, a foundational capability that helps you define, monitor and manage your modern app stacks to Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Managing SLOs is key to ensuring that modern app stacks are performing reliably for end users. SLOs also help you focus on measuring what matters for their end user’s digital experiences. As a result, they can streamline Observability by minimizing the monitoring and alert chaos that exists in many organizations. Benefits include:
- Simple experience for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and developers to define and monitor even their most complex SLOs
- Full-featured SLOs that can model any SRE requirement and leverage logs, metrics, and tracing telemetry
- Automation through Terraform, allowing developers and SREs to templatize, operationalize and manage SLOs as code
- SLO data available as log messages enabling customers to extend existing dashboards to feature SLO data or build proprietary dashboard experiences
See our Reliability Management docs for more information.
August 3, 2022 (Traces)
Update - we've increased data retention for Trace queries from 7 to 15 days, allowing for more time to search, filter, and diagnose recent issues. This 15-day extension comes at no additional cost. For more information, see Viewing and Investigating Traces.