From the AWS Briefing that took place at Croke Park, Dublin on 20 March 2014. AWS customer Logentries discusses how AWS enables them to manage billions of events per day on behalf of their customers.

1. Finding the Data that
Matters
Trevor Parsons, Chief Scientist @ Logentries
March 20, 2014

2. About Logentries
A Heritage in Advanced Research
• Founders hold PhD’s in Distributed Systems
• Former Scientists at the IBM Center for Advanced
Studies
• Built Log Management Solution for IBM (RTCE)
Global SaaS Log Management Service
• More Than 1,000 Customers in Over 100 Countries,
Processing Over 10B Events Daily
• Locations in Boston, Dublin, Prague
• Raised Over $11M in Venture Funding
Trevor Parsons
Chief Research Officer
Formerly a scientist at IBM's Center for
advanced studies. PhD in Computer Science.
Andrew Burton
President & CEO
Proven software executive, with over 16 years of
experience in start-ups & enterprise companies.
Bob Preble
VP, Engineering
Experienced software engineering executive,
formerly with Lotus, Bit9 and Microsoft.
Viliam Holub
CTO
Over a decade developing enterprise
software, with a PhD in Computer Science.
Leadership Team
Leigh Merrigan
VP, Marketing
SaaS marketing, communications and
branding executive, formerly with AppNeta..

3. Developers, IT Operations and Business Analysts from…
Some of Our Customers

4. The World is Flat

5. What We Do

6. The Humble Log

7. Making Log Data Accessible

8. Logs As Data

9. Why Logs as Data for AWS?
MACHINE
GENERATED
LOG DATA

10. Why Logs as Data for AWS?
• Difficult to instrument the cloud
• AWS provides APIs, Data Streams & Logs
• Contain vital information for:
– Debugging
– Performance monitoring
– Security
– Compliance
– Support
– Analytics
• A single destination for all your important system data

11. What’s Important to AWS Users?

12. Our Technology
• Processing Billions of Events per Day
• Distributed Across Physical Locations
• Security, Reliability and Redundancy are
Paramount

13. The Logentries Architecture on AWS

14. Why we choose AWS?
1. No Cap Ex.
• Low Risk
• Scale on Demand
1. Mature Technology
• Scale on Demand
• Mature Storage Model
– EBS, S3, Glacier ….

15. Why we choose AWS?
3. Key Services and Features
• CDN: CloudFront
• Monitoring: CloudWatch
• ELB: Load Balancing
• …
4. Enterprise Class Technology
• Different geographical regions
• HIPPA, SOC2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, FedRAMP …
• CloudTrail

16. Why we choose AWS?
5. And much more if you require it:
• Databases: RDS, Dynamo
• Analytics: Kenesis, Redshift, EMR
• Deployment: Opswork
• PaaS: Beanstalk
• Messaging: SQS, SNS, SES
• …

17. One good turn deserves another

18. One good turn deserves another
• Logentries giving back to the AWS Community
Logentries <3 AWS
• A single place for all your machine data
– No need for SSH Access
– Built in the cloud FOR the cloud – one click integration for AWS
– Troubleshooting, Performance Monitoring, Application Usage
– CloudWatch Integration
– Audit logs via Cloudtrail

19. Log Management & Analytics Made Easy
March 20, 2014