The ExtraHop appliance analyzes a mirrored copy of your network traffic to extract real-time wire data.
Combining ExtraHop and Sumo Logic, you can troubleshoot failed order transactions by pulling the error and request information from your Apache logs (machine data), stack traces from application logs (machine data), POST parameters (order ID, user ID) from the HTTP request (wire data), HTTP status codes (machine and wire data), HTTP headers (wire data), and TCP aborts (wire data). You could also add performance metrics like processing time (wire and machine data), network latency (wire data), and TCP issues like retransmission timeouts and throttling (wire data).
The power of wire data is that it is application agnostic. When you use machine and wire data in conjunction with each other, you get a comprehensive view of your application, inside and outside. And if you find yourself wanting metrics that weren’t included in the logs, you can often pull them from the wire instead going through dev and QA. While we didn’t see anything other than a heartbeat from the coffee machine in those first few days, writing a Trigger to extract methods and messages and push them into Sumo Logic is trivial, and with Sumo Logic’s tools like LogReduce and anomaly detection, the day our coffee machine decides it’s time for an unscheduled tune up, we’ll be the first to know.
If you’re like us, you want to understand what everything in your environment is doing, including your coffee maker, whether you’re implementing your own in-house tech or buying off-the-shelf. When you combine multiple sources of data, you can drive quicker troubleshooting and optimization, deliver business insights, and deliver more secure applications, all built on more visibility.
Interested in trying out ExtraHop? Check out our interactive demo or request your own free virtual appliance.
Who am I? I’m a Technical Marketing Engineer at ExtraHop Networks, a wire data analytics company based in Seattle, Washington. I’ve been lucky enough to see the rise of the next generation of IT operational intelligence from the inside, and get to build solutions that leverage many of these technologies, including integrating the ExtraHop and Sumo Logic platforms. When I’m not at work, you can find me dancing at various music festivals, maining support in LoL, or running/biking around the Pacific Northwest.
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