Sumo Logic, Inc.
Sumo Logic makes the digital world secure, fast, and reliable. The company enables digital organizations to transform massive amounts of data into actionable insights to prevent and remediate modern security and cloud operations challenges.
Founding Story
Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by ArcSight veterans Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen. While Sumo Logic remained in stealth mode for two years, it unveiled its cloud-based log management platform with Series B funding of $15 million in January 2012.
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Leadership
Founders
Kumar Saurabh
Co-founder of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010.
Christian Beedgen
Co-founder and CTO of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010 with Kumar Saurabh.
Executive Team
Mark Ties
Chief Executive Officer
Over 20 years of executive experience in financial leadership and operational transformation. Former CEO of Perforce Software (transformed from $50M to $600M+ business), former CFO & COO of HelpSystems, Senior Operating Partner at Francisco Partners. Holds B.S. in Accounting from University of Minnesota and is a CPA (inactive). Based in Scottsdale, AZ.
Christian Beedgen
CTO & Co-Founder
Co-founder of Sumo Logic. ArcSight veteran who founded the company in April 2010 with Kumar Saurabh.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS subscription model based on Cloud Flex Credits for log analytics, monitoring, SIEM, and observability services. Revenue generated through API usage, data analytics, and storage. Introduced Flex Licensing in 2024 with free unlimited data ingest, charging only for data storage and analytics executed.
Pricing Tiers
Onboard in minutes, AI-driven alerting, ML-powered RCA, hundreds of integrations. Continuous log ingest, unlimited log capacity, up to 50,000 metrics/day, up to 5GB tracing/day, up to 365 days retention, 300/500 real-time alerts for logs/metrics, Standard 8x5 support, optional Premium support.
Cloud-native SIEM, entity-centric detection, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, UEBA, threat intelligence, 24/7 Enterprise support, complex multi-org support, automation services. Continuous/Frequent/Infrequent/Flex log ingest tiers, SIEM log ingest, unlimited logs/metrics/traces, customer-defined retention, 1000/500 real-time alerts for logs/metrics, P1 24/7 support.
$0 ingest, unlimited users, cloud-scale, unthrottled performance, 100% indexed readily available, DevSecOps single source of truth. Analytics usage profiles: 500-750 scans/GB (ad-hoc investigation), 750-1500 scans/GB (real-time analytics), 1500-2000 scans/GB (enterprise-wide analytics).
Target Markets
- Technology companies
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Retail and e-commerce
- Gaming
- Education
- Cloud security operations and SIEM
- DevSecOps automation and collaboration
- Application reliability and performance monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting
- Security threat detection and investigation
- Incident response and forensics
- Samsung
- HashiCorp
- Alaska Airlines
- Standard Chartered
History & Milestones
Announced Snowflake Logs App and Databricks Audit App for enhanced cloud data security
Celebrated 15-year anniversary; Mark Ties became CEO; welcomed three new key executives; deepened AWS partnership
Launched Sumo Logic Dojo AI, an agentic AI-powered security operations service on AWS
Launched Flex Licensing, a revolutionary pricing model with free unlimited data ingest
Unveiled new AI and security innovations including MITRE ATT&CK Threat Coverage Explorer, Copilot, and AI-driven Alerting at RSA Conference 2024
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