Sumo Logic Inc. today introduced new features to make it easier for enterprises to monitor applications powered by Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Lambda service.

Nasdaq-listed Sumo Logic provides an observability platform that helps administrators detect and troubleshoot technical issues in information technology infrastructure. The platform also lends itself to identifying cybersecurity incidents.

Lambda, the AWS service at the center of Sumo Logic’s latest product updates, is a serverless computing platform. It enables developers to deploy and run code in the cloud without having to manage the infrastructure resources used for the task. Chores such as hardware provisioning are carried out automatically.

For Sumo Logic and other observability providers, supporting Lambda is important because the platform is widely used among AWS customers. Serverless computing is becoming more popular in the broader enterprise technology ecosystem as well. AWS rivals Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. both have their own serverless offerings.

Sumo Logic’s newly updated platform adds the ability to monitor Lambda workloads by drawing on three different types of operational data: logs, metrics and traces. 

Logs provide information on events of interest such as an application outage. Metrics offer insight into trends rather than events, for example changes in an application’s average latency over the course of a week. Traces, the third type of operational data that Sumo Logic’s platform uses to monitor Lambda deployments, simplifies troubleshooting by making it easier to determine exactly which of a malfunctioning workload’s components has encountered issues.

Sumo Logic’s new features are built in part on OpenTelemetry, a popular open-source project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. OpenTelemetry provides software tools that make monitoring complex application environments simpler in certain respects. Sumo Logic also collects diagnostics data on Lambda environments using the AWS CloudTrail Monitor and AWS CloudWatch monitoring services.

Sumo Logic says Lambda customers can make use of several existing features in its platform to speed up troubleshooting. The platform offers dashboards for visualizing workload performance and infrastructure usage. A built-in machine learning engine provides assistance with identifying the root cause of a malfunction.

In addition to Lambda, Sumo Logic is improving support for four other AWS services through a set of new integrations. The main highlight is an integration for AWS Inspector, a service that identifies cybersecurity issues in companies’ cloud environments. Sumo Logic says administrators can now use its platform to better understand which infrastructure and application changes are responsible for cybersecurity issues surfaced by Inspector.

The new integrations also bring improved support for three other AWS cybersecurity offerings. They are AWS Web Application Firewall, AWS Security Hub and the AWS GuardDuty threat detection service. Sumo Logic now offers a total of 14 integrations via AWS Quick Starts, which are pre-packaged reference architectures that make deploying software on the cloud giant’s platform easier.

Sumo Logic’s new features for AWS customers advance its effort to win more business from companies that are moving on-premises workloads to the cloud. “We will continue to invest in platform and expanded routes to market to position us to capture the significant opportunity created by digital transformation and cloud migration,” Sumo Logic Chief Executive Ramin Sayar (pictured) said after the company released its most recent quarterly earnings report. 

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