Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with SumoLogic
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate SumoLogic with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate SumoLogic with Azure AD, you can:
- Control in Azure AD who has access to SumoLogic.
- Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to SumoLogic with their Azure AD accounts.
- Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.
Prerequisites
To get started, you need the following items:
- An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
- SumoLogic single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.
Scenario description
In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.
- SumoLogic supports IDP initiated SSO.
Add SumoLogic from the gallery
To configure the integration of SumoLogic into Azure AD, you need to add SumoLogic from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.
- Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
- On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
- Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
- To add new application, select New application.
- In the Add from the gallery section, type SumoLogic in the search box.
- Select SumoLogic from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.
Configure and test Azure AD SSO for SumoLogic
Configure and test Azure AD SSO with SumoLogic using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in SumoLogic.
To configure and test Azure AD SSO with SumoLogic, perform the following steps:
- Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
- Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
- Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
- Configure SumoLogic SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
- Create SumoLogic test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in SumoLogic that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
- Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.
Configure Azure AD SSO
Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.
In the Azure portal, on the SumoLogic application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.
On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, perform the following steps:
a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Identifier URL https://service.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.us2.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.us4.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.eu.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.jp.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.de.sumologic.comhttps://<tenantname>.ca.sumologic.comb. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using one of the following patterns:
Reply URL https://service.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.us2.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.us4.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.eu.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.jp.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.de.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.ca.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>https://service.au.sumologic.com/sumo/saml/consume/<tenantname>Note
These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Identifier and Reply URL. Contact SumoLogic Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.
SumoLogic application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

In addition to above, SumoLogic application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirements.
Name Source Attribute FirstName user.givenname LastName user.surname Roles user.assignedroles Note
Please click here to know how to configure Role in Azure AD.
On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

On the Set up SumoLogic section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

Create an Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.
- From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
- Select New user at the top of the screen.
- In the User properties, follow these steps:
- In the Name field, enter
B.Simon. - In the User name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example,
B.Simon@contoso.com. - Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
- Click Create.
- In the Name field, enter
Assign the Azure AD test user
In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to SumoLogic.
- In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.
- In the applications list, select SumoLogic.
- In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.
- Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
- In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
- If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
- In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.
Configure SumoLogic SSO
In a different web browser window, sign in to your SumoLogic company site as an administrator.
Go to Manage -> Security.

Click SAML.

From the Select a configuration or create a new one list, select Azure AD, and then click Configure.

On the Configure SAML 2.0 dialog, perform the following steps:

a. In the Configuration Name textbox, type Azure AD.
b. Select Debug Mode.
c. In the Issuer textbox, paste the value of Azure AD Identifier, which you have copied from Azure portal.
d. In the Authn Request URL textbox, paste the value of Login URL, which you have copied from Azure portal.
e. Open your base-64 encoded certificate in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste the entire Certificate into X.509 Certificate textbox.
f. As Email Attribute, select Use SAML subject.
g. Select SP initiated Login Configuration.
h. In the Login Path textbox, type Azure and click Save.
Create SumoLogic test user
In order to enable Azure AD users to sign in to SumoLogic, they must be provisioned to SumoLogic. In the case of SumoLogic, provisioning is a manual task.
To provision a user account, perform the following steps:
Sign in to your SumoLogic tenant.
Go to Manage > Users.

Click Add.

On the New User dialog, perform the following steps:

a. Type the related information of the Azure AD account you want to provision into the First Name, Last Name, and Email textboxes.
b. Select a role.
c. As Status, select Active.
d. Click Save.
Note
You can use any other SumoLogic user account creation tools or APIs provided by SumoLogic to provision Azure AD user accounts.
Test SSO
In this section, you test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration with following options.
Click on Test this application in Azure portal and you should be automatically signed in to the SumoLogic for which you set up the SSO.
You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the SumoLogic tile in the My Apps, you should be automatically signed in to the SumoLogic for which you set up the SSO. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.
Next steps
Once you configure SumoLogic you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.