Overview

Use Observability Pipelines’ Sumo Logic destination to send logs to your Sumo Logic Hosted Collector.

Setup

Configure the Sumo Logic destination when you set up a pipeline. You can set up a pipeline in the UI, using the API, or with Terraform. The steps in this section are configured in the UI.

After you select the Sumo Logic destination in the pipeline UI:

• Enter the identifier for your endpoint URL. If you leave it blank, the default is used.
  • Note: Only enter the identifier for the Sumo Logic endpoint URL. Do not enter the actual value.

Optional settings

1. In the Encoding dropdown menu, select whether you want to encode your pipeline’s output in JSON, Logfmt, or Raw text. If no decoding is selected, the decoding defaults to JSON.
2. Enter a source name to override the default name value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
3. Enter a host name to override the default host value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
4. Enter a category name to override the default category value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
5. Click Add Header to add any custom header fields and values.

Buffering options

Toggle the switch to enable Buffering Options. Enable a configurable buffer on your destination to ensure intermittent latency or an outage at the destination doesn’t create immediate backpressure, and allow events to continue to be ingested from your source. Disk buffers can also increase pipeline durability by writing data to disk, ensuring buffered data persists through a Worker restart. See Destination buffers for more information.

• If left unconfigured, your destination uses a memory buffer with a capacity of 500 events.
• To configure a buffer on your destination:
  1. Select the buffer type you want to set (Memory or Disk).
  2. Enter the buffer size and select the unit.
     1. Maximum memory buffer size is 128 GB.
     2. Maximum disk buffer size is 500 GB.
  3. In the Behavior on full buffer dropdown menu, select whether you want to block events or drop new events when the buffer is full.

Secret defaults

These are the defaults used for secret identifiers and environment variables.

Note: If you enter secret identifiers and then choose to use environment variables, the environment variable is the identifier entered and prepended with DD_OP. For example, if you entered PASSWORD_1 for a password identifier, the environment variable for that password is DD_OP_PASSWORD_1.

How the destination works

Event batching

A batch of events is flushed when one of these parameters is met. See event batching for more information.