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756 ‘real’ emails this week, 3200+ more generated by machines and approximately 78,000 push notifications, todos, Jira tasks and text messages – all asking for a piece of your attention. Oh, did you want to get some work done? There’s also a line of people waiting to interrupt you or ask someone near you a …

#sumo logic #predictive analytics #outlier #big data

From a meetup we did in NY

#Docker #SumoLogic #Logging #Machine Data

Sumo Logic IRC on freenode

Just a friendly reminder, check out the #sumologic channel on freenode (IRC). It's frequented by Sumo Logic staff and users. It's a great place to bounce around ideas and interact with the community. Sumo Logic IRC channel

#irc #sumologic

#Shellshock #security #hacking #Exploit #Bash

Shell Shock

If you're not aware of Shell Shock (it's a NASTY bash exploit) read the following and come back:

Securosis Robert Graham's Take

OK, scared? Good, you should be.

I'll get this out of the way now: I am currently employed (and loving it) by Sumo Logic. We're an awesome, cloud based, machine data aggregation and analytics service.

So how do you stay ahead of exploits like Shell Shock? How do you proactively monitor for script kiddies and organized hacking groups trying to break into your servers? Do you still use grep and/or wait for something to be compromised? There is a better way. Do your self a favor and go to www.sumologic.com and sign up for a free account and start pumping your IIS and Apache logs (in real time) into our service and we'll show you a better way at staying ahead of Shell Shock and other exploits.

Here is an example of our patent pending tool called LogReduce ripping through some IIS logs and easily identifying Shell Shock exploit attempts. Look at the search and notice, we didn't filter ANYTHING, this is all of the IIS data, with nothing thrown away - over a 3 hour window, condensed to one page of results...awesome right?

OK marketing and sales guy hat off - if you're not looking for Shell Shock exploit attempts on your exposed servers, you need to...right now. There are some very good tools out there to assist you. Personally, from a cost/performance/ease of use standpoint, Sumo Logic is an amazing value (500MB/day for FREE), but do yourself a favor and get on this now.

#shellshock #bash #exploit #security #log data #machine data #analytics

Do-Rite Donuts. Because, donuts.

#Donuts #Chicago

Using jQuery to Search Sumo Logic (API)

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Getting your data out of Sumo Logic is easy. You can export raw results from the UI, but you can also leverage the REST API to query your data. Here's a quick snippet of code to use jQuery/AJAX to search Sumo

$.ajax ({ type: "GET", url: $sumoURL, dataType: "json", beforeSend: function(xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + btoa($sumoAccessID+":"+$sumoAccessKey));}, async: false, success : function(JSONdata) { response = JSONdata; } }

A few notes, the $sumoURL variable is the URL encoded API search. Here is an example:

https://api.sumologic.com/api/v1/logs/search?q=error&from=2012-04-04T13:01:02&to=2012-04-04T15:01:02

For details on valid parameters and formatting, check out the documentation on GitHub

The $sumoAccessID and $sumoAccessKey variables refer to the API keys that you can set up in the Sumo Logic UI.

And that's about it. The results come back in JSON, so do some crafty parsing and do awesome stuff with it.

Be sure to protect your API keys, putting them in an HTML or JS file on a public server is a BAD idea - this is all client side, so prying eyes could get your credentials.

Eventually, I'd like to put together a form where you can enter the authentication info and a search and have it return a JSON document - thinking that this could be integrated as a header for a web application that uses the Sumo Logic data. However, my free time is a bit limited these days, too busy keeping up with the 4PB of data we're processing daily!

#sumo #sumo logic #sumologic #jquery #ajax #API #bigdata

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I grew up near one of the unhappiest areas (Johnstown, PA), went to school in another unhappy place (Pittsburgh, PA) and ultimately settled down in one of the happiest regions (Washington, DC).