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Knowledge Base
Troubleshooting tips, frequently asked questions and how to articles
Account Management and Billing
- How can I get a copy of an invoice?
- Can we delete data already sent into Sumo Logic so that search results don't show this data?
- Discrepancy between Account Usage Details and Log Data Volume Index data
- How to I change or edit my Organization name?
- How to increase the number of users?
- Can I merge multiple Sumo Logic accounts into a single account?
Applications
Content Management
Field Extraction Rules
Managing Users and Roles
- "Unable to sign in. Your account has been locked"
- What are Role Search filter limitations?
- When I try to enter any of the certification courses, I encounter an SSO error that says 'last name is required.'
- Azure AD SSO error SAML authentication request's RequestedAuthenticationContext's Comparison value must be "exact".
- Users are not receiving the welcome or password reset email
- When are password Policy Changes Applied to Users?
Security
Collectors
- How do Sumo Logic store access tokens for collecting Office 365 logs?
- How can I update a collector name after installing a collector?
- High Collector CPU Use After Leap Second
- How to remove HPROF dump files (java_pid*) inside collector installation folder utilising disk space?
- ALB/ELB multiple log lines are being concatenated as single line. What could be causing this and how to resolve it?
- SLF4J errors ingested into Sumo Logic while collecting OKTA logs via SumoJanus package.
Sources
- * ERROR: Registration failed: Invalid source: * The json file C:\Scripts\Sumologic\source.json contains invalid value.
- Collector refuse to remove sources from sources.json (Local file Management Mode) due to multiple filters supplied with the same "Name" key.
- Remote Windows Event Log source fails to connect to the event channel
- Data ingested from an S3 bucket or an HTTP source consumes more storage in Sumo Logic
- How can I ingest Microsoft Teams logs in to Sumologic?
- Cloud Syslog in PEM format
Data Forwarding
- Is there a way to forward the parsed fields used in the scheduled views via Data Forwarding in Sumo Logic?
- When forwarding data to S3, are the logs sent before or after processing rules have been applied?
- If I create a Scheduled View with a start date in the past and data forwarding enabled, how will the data be forwarded?
- Error when creating S3 Data Forwarding: Unable to initiate S3 object uploads
- Data is not Forwarding from Sumo Logic to our S3 Bucket
- Collector Warning message: Unable to forward message to <ip address>-<Port>
Field Extraction Rules
Scheduled Views/Partitions
- Is there any extra data cost when using Partition/Scheduled View?
- Search query does not produce results for frequent tier partition.
- Does SumoLogic use receipt time or message time for calculating data retention?
- If we use the Save To Index feature for alerting, what is the retention period for the same index?
- When I use Save to Index, metadata fields from the Collector (for example, _collector) will be dropped. Does that mean the data in the index will not have any associated metadata?
Metrics
- "Disk_UsedPercent" metric not available for the sources configured under the windows collector. How to resolve it??
- Is there any way to put a custom field on a Host Metrics source or is it constrained?
- Is it possible to export metrics as csv or json data out of Sumo Logic?
- "Count by Log Messages" option in Log to Metrics does not populate the metric values with proper aggregate counts and shows as 1
Searching Logs
- How to return the week number of the year for a timestamp?
- Why aren't my recent logs showing up with my search?
- How should I achieve NOT EQUAL TO in lookup and restrict the display of the records which are there in lookup table?
- Role Filter creation failed with "Internal Limit Error"
- Do you have a parse regex for both IPv6 and IPv4?
- The Live Tail feature is not working. Pressing "Run" does not do anything.
Alerting and Scheduled Search
- Include all the results in a scheduled search email alert.
- What is the default webhook timeout in Sumo Logic? Can we increase it?
- How can I send the alerts to Google hangout?
- Can a Scheduled Search have multiple alert conditions?
- Search Condition does not Trigger Scheduled Search Alert
- Is there a way to recover Scheduled Searches/Alerts that were deleted inadvertently?
Dashboards and Panels
- Explore dashboards are not populated with metrics from my kubernetes cluster
- Switching to live mode dashboard gives "This panel cannot be converted to Live Mode because it has a literal time range"
- How to share a dashboard with an absolute time-range on it.
- There was a problem adding panel to the dashboard.
- Can I manage/edit other user's Dashboard as a content administrator?
- Shared Live Mode Dashboard will not populate for public URL
User Preferences
- Why is the default web session timeout set to 15 minutes for new users in Sumo Logic UI?
- SAML SSO showing "Last Name" required error while accessing certification page
- Is there any way to query user activity for those that have access to SumoLogic?
- How can I set the User Session Timeout Preferences?
Search Job
General
- Terraform Sumo Logic Provider fails with "401-Full-authentication-is-required"
- Internal Error (500) when calling Sumo Logic APIs
- SSL error when running a curl request to the Sumo Logic APIs
- API - 404 Error - Job ID is invalid
- API - 401 Error - Credential could not be verified
- API - 403 Error - This operation is not allowed for your account type
Collector Management
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