Logs

Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic

Cloud-native SaaS log analytics + SIEM, an early "no servers to run" alternative to self-hosted ELK/Splunk.

Category
Logs
License
Proprietary
Deployment
SaaS
Cost
Medium
Free tier
Yes
Self-host effort
Maturity
Established
Popularity
Established SaaS log analytics + SIEM

The catch

The "free ingest, pay to scan" model can flip the bill onto your dashboards and alerts — frequent/large queries quietly burn credits.

Monitors

LogsMetricsTracesSecurityCloudK8s

Capabilities

AlertingDashboardsAPI

Built for

Mid-marketEnterprise

First-hand data

data as of Jun 24, 2026

Significant incidents · 90d
173 major · 14 minor
Incident-minutes logged
17 hcumulative, not downtime
Last incident
Jun 18, 2026

Polled first-hand from each vendor's public status page & GitHub. "Significant" excludes informational notices & planned maintenance; incident-minutes sum per-incident durations (not platform downtime). Method & full data →

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