Sumo Logic Inc. today unveiled new tools designed to give enterprises more insight into their infrastructure and how operational efficiency can be improved.

The additions, which are rolling out for the startup’s flagship log analytics platform, span several aspects of information technology teams’ work. Chief among them is security. The update introduces a tool that can analyze the data Sumo Logic’s platform collects about a company’s infrastructure for breach indicators.

The startup is looking to replace the traditional security information and event management, or SIEM, platforms that have historically been at the heart of companies’ network protection efforts. Enterprises rely on SIEM software to centrally scan the data coming in from different parts of their infrastructure for suspicious activity. In a recent survey commissioned by Sumo Logic, 93 percent of the respondents said “current” solutions are ineffective for public cloud infrastructure.

The startup claims that its tool stands out from the pack thanks to a set of built-in cloud integrations, Sumo Logic can collect data from Amazon Web Services Inc. and the other major cloud platforms, well as popular software-as-a-service security offerings such as those from Okta Inc.

The new SIEM tool is joined by something the startup calls Global Insights. According to Sumo Logic, the capability aggregates data from the environments of its 2,000-plus customers to provide a benchmark for assessing operational efficiency. The startup said that Global Insights lets companies compare system and application performance against other deployments, as well as find best practices such as what other cloud services other firms choose for a given use case.

The other features in today’s update mainly focus on facilitating new ways to apply the data from Sumo Logic’s platform. One, dubbed Search Templates, lets IT teams create custom interfaces that less technical colleagues can use to explore operational data without having to learn the native query language. Another capability enables companies to extract key details from operational logs as condensed, high-level metrics.

Today’s update ticks data science off the list as well. Sumo Logic now provides an integration with Jupyter Notebook, an open-source analytics tool popular among among data scientists, to let users directly pull data into their machine learning models and other algorithms.

Sumo President and Chief Executive Ramin Sayar spoke about his company with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, late last year at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas:

Photo: Sumo Logic