Steve Newman sits with John Furrier at Scalyr HQ in San Mateo, CA. #theCUBE #Scalyr https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/06/speed-to-truth-scalyr-enables-search-complex-data-logs-at-warp-speed-scalyr/ Speed to truth: Scalyr enables search in complex data logs at warp speed Whether it involves online search or troubleshooting a thorny systems error, the name of the game is speed. Yet, in a world where a navigation bar can deliver an answer for “today’s weather” or “the derivative of square root by sine X of first principles” in less than the blink of an eye, finding the cause of system failure in log data can take minutes or longer, an eternity in the world of information technology management. This is the central issue that Scalyr Inc., a server log monitoring tools provider based in Silicon Valley, has sought to address since its founding in 2011. As log data has grown exponentially, so too has the need to manage it. And the key part of data management has been to find answers to problems and resolve them as fast as a user can locate the nearest ice cream parlor. “We like to think of speed as the time from a question in someone’s head to the answer on someone’s screen,” said Steve Newman (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Scalyr. “The question that someone wants to ask can be a little more complicated or the data needs a little bit of massaging. We wanted to take a step forward and create this more-advanced language for more-advanced queries.” Newman spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Scalyr On The Ground event in San Mateo, California. Furrier also spoke with Scalyr executives Casey Clark, chief customer officer; Jeff Mathis, software engineer; and John Hart, principal software engineer, in separate interviews. They discussed how Scalyr’s technology was derived from Newman’s previous work at Google LLC, recently introduced features for Scalyr’s platform, and customer interest in the log management technology. (* Disclosure below.)