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About Retrospective is a desktop application for convenient and effective searching in local and distributed log files as well as log data from container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Such data sources are accessed on local and/or remote computers and the log data of different format is extracted, combined and displayed in one place (the result table). Advanced features such as profile definition, data source monitoring, sorting/filtering result entries, highlighting, bookmarking, exporting etc. enable fast and robust log data exploration. Retrospective assists you in early error detection by monitoring application servers’ logs, searching for exceptions, etc. The highly optimized search engine together with the aforementioned features ensures that much precious time is saved. Being able to access all log data in one place makes log data processing incredibly efficient, thus ensuring quick and effective reactions to problems, and therefore gain customers’ trust and loyalty.	About Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM helps your team detect, investigate, and respond to threats with faster behavioral analytics and automation—powered by real-time data and logs-first intelligence. Sumo Logic UEBA baselines user and entity behavior in minutes—training models on historical data to reduce false positives and surface high-risk anomalies.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience IT specialists ranging from business analysts, software developers, testers to system administrators	Audience IT Security and Development departments looking for a solution for cloud log management and TDIR
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $92 per year Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $270.00 per month Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 4.5 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 4.5 / 5 Read all reviews
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information centeractive AG Founded: 2005 Switzerland retrospective.centeractive.com	Company Information Sumo Logic Founded: 2009 United States www.sumologic.com
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Categories Log Analysis Log Management Log Monitoring	Categories Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Cloud Management Cloud Monitoring Cloud Security Container Monitoring DevOps Incident Response Log Analysis Log Management Log Monitoring Observability Security Analytics Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) SIEM
	Log Management Features Archiving Audit Trails Compliance Reporting Consolidation Data Visualization Event Logs Network Logs Remediation Syslogs Thresholds Web Logs Show More Features Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Features Baseline Manager Diagnostic Tools Full Transaction Diagnostics Performance Control Resource Management Root-Cause Diagnosis Server Performance Trace Individual Transactions Cloud Management Features Access Control Billing & Provisioning Capacity Analytics Cost Management Demand Monitoring Multi-Cloud Management Performance Analytics SLA Management Supply Monitoring Workflow Approval Cloud Security Features Antivirus Application Security Behavioral Analytics Encryption Endpoint Management Incident Management Intrusion Detection System Threat Intelligence Two-Factor Authentication Vulnerability Management DevOps Features Approval Workflow Dashboard KPIs Policy Management Portfolio Management Prioritization Release Management Timeline Management Troubleshooting Reports Incident Response Features Attack Behavior Analytics Automated Remediation Compliance Reporting Forensic Data Retention Incident Alerting Incident Database Incident Logs Incident Reporting Privacy Breach Reporting Security Orchestration SIEM Data Ingestion / Correlation SLA Tracking / Management Threat Intelligence Timeline Analysis Workflow Automation Workflow Management SIEM Features Application Security Behavioral Analytics Compliance Reporting Endpoint Management File Integrity Monitoring Forensic Analysis Log Management Network Monitoring Real Time Monitoring Threat Intelligence User Activity Monitoring
Integrations 7AI Airlock Digital Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Barracuda PST Enterprise Barracuda SSL VPN Cloudaware Code42 Incydr Cortex Dropzone AI Meltano Observo AI Rippling Rookout SIRP SecLytics Augur Tenable One ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) Veza Zoho Directory Zoho One Show More Integrations View All 2 Integrations	Integrations 7AI Airlock Digital Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Barracuda PST Enterprise Barracuda SSL VPN Cloudaware Code42 Incydr Cortex Dropzone AI Meltano Observo AI Rippling Rookout SIRP SecLytics Augur Tenable One ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) Veza Zoho Directory Zoho One Show More Integrations View All 104 Integrations
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