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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dynatrace

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADynatrace is an enterprise software platform that provides Application Performance Management (APM), full-stack Observability, and automated operational analytics across multi-cloud and hybrid IT environments. The platform ingests telemetry data—including metrics, logs, traces, and user-experience data—to automate system health monitoring, root-cause fault detection, and digital performance management.

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    per synthetic request

    SolarWinds AppOptics

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds AppOptics (formerly Librato) is an IT infrastructure monitoring service and APM, based on technology acquired by SolarWinds with Librato in 2015 to expand its cloud monitoring portfolio.N/A

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Pricing
    DynatraceSolarWinds AppOpticsSumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $0.001
    per synthetic request
    Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
    $0.002
    per hour for any size pod
    Real User Monitoring
    $0.00225
    per session
    Application Security
    $0.018
    per hour for 8 GIB host
    Infrastructure Monitoring
    $0.04
    per hour for any size host
    Full-Stack Monitoring
    $0.08
    per hour for 8 GIB host
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    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DynatraceSolarWinds AppOpticsSumo Logic
    Considered Multiple Products
    Dynatrace LLC
    Chose Dynatrace
    We wanted SaaS and on-prem - basically hybrid and Dynatrace supports that wherein other tools did not have that option.
    Incentivized
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds AppOptics
    Everyone used to know the names of AppDynamics and Dynatrace when it comes to APM or Application Tracing Monitoring. Since these tools were the evolver of this particular technology, I still believe that these tools are the market player. But SolarWinds AppOptics is not less, …
    Incentivized
    Sumo Logic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    100%
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    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    202 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    DynatraceSolarWinds AppOpticsSumo Logic
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    Sumo Logic
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    Remote monitoring8.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.72 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring9.23 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring7.83 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications8.93 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    Sumo Logic
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    Patch Management6.41 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service configuration management9.11 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory8.21 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation5.51 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    Sumo Logic
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    Performance data reports7.12 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting7.73 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.33 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis7.32 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SolarWinds AppOptics
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    Sumo Logic
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    Data backup and recovery9.11 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrator access control5.51 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Dynatrace and SolarWinds AppOptics and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Dynatrace
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    6.9
    30 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Sumo Logic
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    Application monitoring00 Ratings8.530 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings7.528 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings6.526 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings4.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings7.226 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings6.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings6.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.316 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon CloudWatch
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    Medium-sized Companies
    LogicMonitor
    Score8.9 out of 10
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score7.7 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ManageEngine Site24x7
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    Splunk AppDynamics
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    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DynatraceSolarWinds AppOpticsSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (347 ratings)
    7.8
    (30 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
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    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (201 ratings)
    9.0
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    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.2
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    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
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    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Professional Services
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    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    DynatraceSolarWinds AppOpticsSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is well suited to a number of tasks. It is important to determine who the end users are and gather good information to tailor their experience accordingly. For instance, business/marketing should not have access to some of the more technical data, and business metrics can be a distraction for IT operations personnel.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    AppOptics is good for small to medium-sized organizations with less than 150 servers or less than 40 services to monitor. It performs well for this use case where people need to get an overview of application performance, and 95%ile data is okay. Somewhere every data point and every record is critical; it should be avoided.
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Pros
    Dynatrace LLC
    • We loved Dynatrace's ability to show the data flow - from the front end points through the back end points straight to the database and various API's. It was advanced in its data visualization. This is useful for debugging - showing when/where the errors are. It can even enable non-technical individuals in the corporation to help debug
    • Dynatrace has some great highly customizable integration options as well as monitoring. You can configure your layout & integration options to create custom monitoring alerts for your applications performance. Further you can increase the extensibility of using a REST API on your architecture.
    • Some advanced dev-ops systems are utilizing Kubernetes/docker aswell as Node.JS - Dynatrace was able to log and help understand all of our dev-ops needs. It gave us native alerts based off of deviations from the baseline that we set during initial configuration. These metrics are priceless.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Request tracing with code profiling.
    • Automated alerting on latency and response codes for each API.
    • Low resource overhead while collecting data from our application servers.
    • Highly performant dashboard that enables us to make progress rapidly.
    • Very resilient. We have not seen a downtime in their service in the entire year that we have used them.
    • Identify database and cache requests that are taking longer than expected
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    Dynatrace LLC
    • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on AIX OS.
    • Dynatrace does not monitor easily on a C-based application.
    • The way DPGR is addressed by Dynatrace is not very complete, and not clear. One thing is to mask the IP and request attributes but is not enough, the replay session feature is great but raises serious questions about user tracking.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • The only thing that I would add is the possibility to display every single query our servers receive to eventually analyze them and query through them. We could also generate nice visualizations from that. Right now I believe we can only see averages.
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have already renewed our purchase with the company. They make it easy for us to get a temporary license for our contingency site that is only used for testing twice a year. We are expanding our license with for this tool. We find it very useful and will renew it again.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    We have been using AppOptics for over 3.5 years and expect to continue to renew it for the foreseeable future
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace is feature rich and often many way to get to the required data. We have 150+ users and one thing we have to do is provide training. Otherwise users can get lost when drilling down through services and traces. The filtering options help to reduce the noise and focus on the area concerned. When give people access to logs we need guardrails to ensure queries are targeted. This helps with cost control.
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    SolarWinds
    As far a usability is concerned for AppOptics, it is just as matter of few minutes away even if you start from scratch, as all you need to do is register on the site and you will get the URL and password. And after this all you have to do is follow the instruction, as per the configuration wizard (tool tip) within the console for various technology such as SQL, IIS, .NET
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Our environment, it never goes down therefore is always available.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
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    Performance
    Dynatrace LLC
    We have not seen where it does slow down an application.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Dynatrace LLC
    Given that Dynatrace has become an informal industry standard, the plethora of information available on forums is massive. Most problems or roadblocks you come across are most likely (almost certainly, in fact) already solved and solutions available on these forums. The tech support at Dynatrace is also quite good, with prompt and knowledgeable people at their end.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds AppOptics is rated as 9 out of 10 and the reason is there are still few areas where AppOptics needs to improve such as Service Now Integration, GCP Cloud Support, Better Dashboard visualization for application transactions flow. Other than these feature everything is there in AppOptics and that's a reason given 9 points out of 10.
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    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    In-Person Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    We did both online and in house training - they used our system so it made more sense.
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
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    Online Training
    Dynatrace LLC
    The training was done on our time and with our system.
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
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    Implementation Rating
    Dynatrace LLC
    Using Dynatrace support services to assist (and lead) the implementation was extremely important.
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dynatrace LLC
    Synthetic Monitoring automatically does what other products do only through the use of other tools or through the development of user applications that still have a high cost of maintenance. The other products are not immediately usable and require many customizations. Through the use of configuration automatisms, you can be immediately operational and, in our case, we detected several imperfections in the applications.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    What we found positive in AppOptics from others is:
    • Easy to install and manage.
    • Various stack support.
    • Point to point deep-dive metrics and correlation.
    • Metrics like DB connection, query analysis, latency in API calls, and other connections, response codes for various APIs, etc are the key ones in our case, which AppOptics provides efficiently.
    • Alerts can be sent on different channels.
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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Scalability
    Dynatrace LLC
    Dynatrace can be used to monitor may software tools
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
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    Professional Services
    Dynatrace LLC
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    SolarWinds
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    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    Dynatrace LLC
    • Thanks to Dynatrace we have been able to effectively challenge and collaborate with service providers and outsourced IT teams.
    • Thanks to Dynatrace we have reduced MTTR on troubleshooting by a magnitude of four.
    • The performance analyses our team has done with Dynatrace earned us trust among management, business teams, and IT teams.
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    SolarWinds
    • Application monitoring troubleshooting became more accurate. Accurate results save more man-hours of manual troubleshooting.
    • As Realtime monitoring and alerts provide more flexibility, downtime can be minimized and Accurate Root causes can be provided.
    • Dashboards can be useful for making future strategy based on trends.
    • Installation and integration is easy.
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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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