Send Data

Learn how to send data to Sumo Logic and get started with our observability and security solutions. In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

Designing your Deployment

• How to choose a Collector and Source
• How to use the Collection UI

Sumo Logic Distro for OpenTelemetry

Our OpenTelemetry Distribution is a single unified agent to send Logs, Metrics, Traces, and more.

Installed Collectors

Installed collector is our proprietary agent that you can deploy in your environment to collect logs and some metrics sources.

Hosted Collectors

Set up a Hosted Collector to collect data directly from cloud sources like AWS, GCP, and more without installing an agent.

Kubernetes

Learn how to collect Kubernetes logs, metrics, and events.

Other Data Sources

Collect logs and metrics from a variety of other data sources.

JSON Configuration

Learn how to configure Installed and Hosted Collectors sources using JSON files.

Time Reference

Learn about supported timestamps, date formatting, and more.

Wildcards in Paths

Use wildcards in Source paths to collect all files of a certain type.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Sumo Logic data collection.