Log management and analytics vendor Sumo Logic has landed on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace with two certified products that offer users greater visibility into their cloud application workloads.

The move follows Sumo Logic’s unveiling of an industry-first machine-data analytics platform earlier this year. At the time, Sumo Logic said its platform was unrivaled in its ability to ingest, index and analyze both structured and unstructured log data in real-time. The platform also boasts features like faster root case analysis and one-click troubleshooting.

Sumo Logic’s software helps administrators to easily spot trends and anomalous system behaviors that could affect performance by unifying all of the application logs and metrics into a holistic, contextual view. The company’s proprietary machine learning algorithm is able to process both kinds of data, drawing on pattern-matching techniques that locate deviations in the logs.

Now, the company is offering the same service for Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) workloads via two separate products.

First up is Sumo Logic for Azure Audit, which scoops up data from Azure’s Audit Logs and Active Directory, giving administrators enhanced visibility into how changes impact performance, and how their subscriptions are being used. Admins can also monitor when users are created or deleted, as well as other changes.

The second product, Sumo Logic Azure Web Apps, is more developer-focused, offering health monitoring and performance visualization for those creating apps on Azure’s PaaS. It allows developers to evaluate data traffic patterns to determine where their users come from, and provides “in-moment” visibility to response codes, allowing them to identify the cause of application and server errors.

“The real-time management of cloud applications is a complex and difficult task,” Stephen D. Hendrick, principal analyst at ESG, said in a statement. “Sumo Logic’s new offerings on Azure for continuous data collection and analysis of physical and virtual resource utilization, as well as infrastructural services and applications performance, provides a comprehensive foundation for addressing monitoring, management, governance, and operational requirements.”

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