LogicMonitor vs ScienceLogic comparison

LogicMonitor and ScienceLogic are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. LogicMonitor is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.0, while ScienceLogic is ranked #26 with an average rating of 7.4. LogicMonitor holds a 2.3% mindshare in IM, compared to ScienceLogic’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of LogicMonitor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of ScienceLogic users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

ScienceLogic and LogicMonitor are key players in the IT infrastructure monitoring category. LogicMonitor has an upper hand due to its superior features and ease of use, despite potentially higher costs.

Features: ScienceLogic users value its robust data collection, integration capabilities, and reliable performance. LogicMonitor users appreciate its comprehensive alerting, reporting features, and advanced monitoring tools. LogicMonitor's extensive features give it an edge over ScienceLogic.

Room for Improvement: ScienceLogic needs to improve its scalability, dashboard customization, and API integration. LogicMonitor users note the need for better API documentation, more detailed system metrics, and enhanced user interface options. ScienceLogic's scalability issues are more significant.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ScienceLogic users report relatively easy deployment and highlight excellent customer support. LogicMonitor users find the setup process straightforward and praise its responsive customer service. Both offer good deployment experiences, but ScienceLogic excels in support.

Pricing and ROI: ScienceLogic users find its setup costs reasonable with good ROI over time. LogicMonitor users feel the product is worth its higher cost due to the extensive features it provides. LogicMonitor offers better overall ROI despite higher initial costs.

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Categories and Ranking

LogicMonitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

12th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

11th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

13th

Ranking in AIOps

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Monitoring (5th)

ScienceLogic

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

32nd

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

26th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

21st

Ranking in AIOps

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (8th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Server Monitoring (12th), IT Operations Analytics (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of LogicMonitor is 2.3%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScienceLogic is 1.9%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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Henry-Steinhauer

Systems Engineer at LifePoint Health

They have an active community of users who are willing to share their experiences and how they have extended the solution to do unusual things.

I'm a learn-by-example person, so it would be nice to have a cookbook for enterprise management. They have a rich API process, but there aren't many examples of how to do enterprise-style work. It is peculiar about how to do it for one device, but not necessarily thousands. LogicMonitor can effortlessly pull data from one item at a time. I have yet to find an excellent way to get LogicMonitor to show me all the WAN devices and how they're doing in terms of capacity.

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GauravSingh4

CEO at Parker Digital

Great integrations, power flow, and good support

They need a little more self-service. Some of the places where there's still a dependency on defense logic. If those could be eliminated, that would be ideal. They've done a fantastic job eliminating a lot of those dependencies and there's a lot of self-service. However, some of the areas where we could have it connect to, for example, Splunk or ServiceNow, in a self-care version versus having to go back to their engineers, that's an area where they could do a little more. There are still a lot of engineers who get involved versus if it's a little more API-driven and self-served dashboard connections. Doing it the other way would just make life easier for users.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"LogicMonitor added AI technology to help understand what's normal and that has helped quite a bit, so that's the feature I found most valuable in the product. The product is also doing quite well with identifying devices and customizing a particular Cisco version or model number. LogicMonitor continues to be active in updating what is available to be monitored, and it's been very good with keeping those things current, so that's another valuable feature of the product."

"It has improved our organization with its capacity planning. We have a performance environment that we use to benchmark our applications. We use it to say, "Okay, at a certain level of concurrency, we know where our application will fall over." Therefore, we are using LogicMonitor dashboards to tell us that we're good. Our platform can handle X number of clients concurrently hitting us at a time."

"We get full visibility into whatever the customer wants us to monitor and we get it pretty rapidly. That is very important. Only having certain metrics that other platforms will give you out-of-the-box means you only get a small picture, a thumbnail picture. Whereas with LogicMonitor, you get the entire "eight by 10 picture", out-of-the-box. Rather than some availability metrics, you get everything. You get metrics on temperature, anything related to hardware failure, or up and down status."

"The initial setup is very simple."

"We only have one monitoring tool, and that is LogicMonitor. It does pretty much everything we need under one roof. They are very good at rapidly releasing new features. It's not like we have to wait six months or a year between new features and data sources. There is very quick development. If there is something that doesn't do it for us, I know I can just raise it with support or our delivery representative, and there is a good chance that that will be looked at. If it's not too much effort, we will see it released in the next few months. So, the solution is very good from that perspective. We have everything in LogicMonitor."

"The most valuable feature is the visualization of the data that it is collecting. I have used many products in the past and they tend to roll up the data. So, if you're looking at data over long periods of time, they start averaging the data, which can skew the figures that you're looking at. With LogicMonitor, they have the raw data there for two years, if you are an enterprise customer. If you are looking at that long duration of data, you're seeing exactly what happened during that time."

"LogicMonitor is good for getting a full view of your topologies. They have LiveMaps, which give you a visual representation of your infrastructure."

"The plugins are easy to integrate, and LogicMonitor provides these add-ons for vendors like VMware. It becomes very easy to integrate them and take the data sources."

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"The power flow is great."

"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."

"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."

"The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support."

"Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique."

"It is very easy to configure because we are using an agent-less version. You can very quickly implement a collector for monitoring device servers."

"The solution provides good infra-monitoring features."

"The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning."

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Cons

"Some more application performance type monitoring would be nice. For example, an APM type solution, which would not necessarily completely replace it, but be able to tie into to what we're seeing on the application performance side so we can correlate what's going on with the application versus the underlying infrastructure."

"LogicMonitor's reporting capabilities definitely could use an improvement. We have made do with the dashboarding and done what we can to make that work for our customers. However, there are definitely customers who would like a PDF or some kind of report along those lines, where we have been utilizing other tools to provide them. The out-of-the-box LogicMonitor reporting is the only thing that we have been less than impressed with."

"There is a lack of automation, especially in terms of remediating problems. The problem is seen and identified, but there is a need and a gap where LogicMonitor can help us automate the remediation of the problem."

"The only functional area I can think of that has room for improvement would be the dashboards. They could use a refresh. It would be nice if there were more widgets and more types of widgets."

"We are working with LogicMonitor to get flexibility to see the absolute running numbers, rather than doing an average. They can keep the average for customers who want it, but there should be a way to at least show the real numbers, which are coming every second on the screen."

"I'd like to see more automation in the tool, especially around remediation."

"LogicMonitor should always improve AI because we are always striving for real intelligence. An additional feature we'd like to see in the next release of LogicMonitor is more in the area of identification of when the dominant workload is working. There are certain devices and applications that have cycles of their own. Some are used primarily during prime time, and some are used during the overnight timeframe, and better identification and classification of those workloads would be helpful. For example, we could then do some more planning about, for this particular set of devices, as it has a prime time environment, and we don't want to see a 24-hour average, as we want to see what is the 75th or 90th percentile utilization during the prime time when it is being used, whenever that prime time is."

"LogicMonitor can easily easy to pull data from one item at a time. I have yet to find a good way to get LogicMonitor to show me all the WAN devices and how they're doing in terms of capacity."

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"They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance."

"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."

"They need a little more self-service."

"From a performance perspective, it needs to improve a lot."

"Addressing duplicate IPs: There is the ability to edit the DB and fix this, but adding some logic to understand them would be a plus."

"ScienceLogic does not have application monitoring. We definitely need something integrated within ScienceLogic to monitor applications so that we don't have to rely on monitoring tools to monitor other applications. At least the ones that are market leaders, such as SAP, Oracle, and others."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It can handle scaling. It is like any other cloud service. There is a cost associated with scaling, so we currently don't monitor all of our environments. We monitor just the customer-facing production environments. It would be nice if we could monitor our dominant environments, but we will have to pay a lot more due to the scaling issue. So, there's a balance there between what we would like and what we are willing to pay for."

"It definitely pays for itself in the amount of time we're not spending with false errors or things that we haven't quite dealt with monitoring. It has been good cost-wise."

"It's affordable. The price we get per license is a lot cheaper than what we were getting with some of the other tools. There are other monitoring tools out there that are cheaper, but what you get with LogicMonitor, out-of-the-box, makes it worth the cost."

"The solution is not expensive."

"As a managed service provider, we have the highest level of licensing that they offer, so we don't have any extra fees. I believe there are some add-ons for some of the lower tiers of LogicMonitor service, but that's not something that we use with our agreement."

"It's an enterprise-grade solution and competitively priced compared to the other solutions that are out there... Our organization is not huge, but LogicMonitor is worth every penny that we pay for it. I've never heard anyone say, "I'm not sure that we're getting good value for money from this product." It's integral to our business."

"They are expensive for the cloud."

"We are on an enterprise license plan, we are paying $7.75 per device a month. That is for a commitment of 350 devices. Anything that is over the 350 is charged at 1.2 times the rate; 1.2 times $7.75 would be the overage charge. We are looking at increasing our commitment to either 450 or 500 devices. It changes our pricing if we go to 450 devices, bringing it from $7.75 down to $7.70. If we go for 500 devices, it brings it from $7.75 down to $7.50. We will probably factor in the volume discount drop from $7.75 to $7.50 in our decision of whether we uplift or not. We also have some cloud monitors, which are about $500 a month."

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"Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device."

"The pricing model for ScienceLogic could improve."

"Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."

"It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."

"I'm not the best person to discuss pricing, but what I do know is that it's a use-and-go structure. You use this much storage and pay this much for it. That's how it is. Every time, we continue to add a large amount of data to the environment."

"Its price could be lower, but for what you pay, you got a lot of value from its features and functionalities. Customers always want a discount or a cheaper solution."

"The solution is license-based. It's between $8 and $15, depending on what you need from the product."

"The license of ScienceLogic is based on how many endpoints are used. The number of monitoring points you want to have."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...

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What do you like most about LogicMonitor?

LogicMonitor helps us prevent potential downtime. It's pretty good. It generates low-level warnings that aren't necessarily preemptive but can still alert us to issues we should investigate. These ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogicMonitor?

The pricing can vary yearly or monthly, depending on the clients we're working with and their size and scale. For example, the pricing for a customer with ten thousand licenses versus a hundred lic...

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What do you like most about ScienceLogic?

The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?

My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.

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What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?

The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.

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Overview

LogicMonitor provides infrastructure and network monitoring, alerting, and reporting across environments like AWS, Azure, and on-premises.

LogicMonitor aids businesses and managed service providers in maintaining system health, performance, and availability. It supports various technologies including Citrix, Cisco Voice systems, operating systems, virtual machines, and network devices. Businesses benefit from dashboards and data insights for proactive management, customizable data sources, and integration with third-party applications like Slack or ServiceNow. AI technology enhances monitoring capabilities by recognizing normal behavior and updating monitored elements, while multiple monitoring features consolidate data sources into one interface.

What are LogicMonitor's key features?

Dashboards: Instant, interactive access to data for easy monitoring.
Customizable Data Sources: Robust, adaptable monitoring with logic modules.
Granular Alert Tuning: Enhances issue identification and resolution.
Reporting Capabilities: Detailed oversight and forecasting.
Third-Party Integration: Expands functionality with applications like Slack and ServiceNow.
AI Technology: Recognizes normal behavior and updates monitored elements.
Consolidated Monitoring: Combines diverse data sources into a single interface.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

System Health: Ensures optimal system performance and availability.
Data Insights: Facilitates proactive management with comprehensive data.
Scalability: Adapts to different environments and technologies.
Efficiency: Streamlines monitoring with a single, efficient interface.
Predictive Analysis: Provides detailed oversight and accurate forecasting.

LogicMonitor is utilized across diverse industries by managed service providers to ensure seamless monitoring and management of clients' systems. This includes application performance monitoring, manual topology mapping, SLA calculations, and improvement of role-based permissions. Companies also seek enhanced resources view, better collector upgrade processes, and streamlined customization for monitoring from the repository.

ScienceLogic is a comprehensive IT infrastructure monitoring solution that supports networks, servers, cloud environments, and applications, suitable for private cloud and on-premises deployments.

Organizations leverage ScienceLogic for its robust capabilities in monitoring IT infrastructures of all sizes. It offers granular discovery, integration with CMDB, and ticketing systems. Valued for its flexibility, incident automation, remediation, and real-time relationship mapping, it supports hybrid environments with scalable and efficient monitoring functionalities. AI and machine learning enhance its feature set, while ease of deployment and strong support are crucial benefits.

What are ScienceLogic's most important features?

Agentless Configuration: Ensures easy deployment without the need for agents.
Third-Party Integration: Seamlessly integrates with various tools.
Dynamic Component Mapping: Offers real-time relationship and dependency mapping.
Flexible Graphs: Allows custom visual representation of data.
Role-Based Access: Provides tiered access for different user roles.
Infrastructure and Event Management: Efficiently monitors hybrid environments.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Scalability: Handles environments of all sizes efficiently.
AI and Machine Learning: Enhances automation and incident management.
Ease of Deployment: Streamlines initial setup and reduces time to value.
Customization: Custom dashboards and reports cater to specific needs.
Comprehensive Support: Access to excellent support services.

ScienceLogic is implemented across multiple industries, including large enterprises, for its capability to handle complex IT ecosystems. Its integration with CMDB and ticketing systems ensures it fits within existing workflows. Organizations use it to monitor diverse infrastructure landscapes, ensuring seamless performance and quick incident resolution.

Sample Customers

Kayak, Zendesk, Ted Baker, Trulia, Sophos, iVision, TekLinks, Siemens

Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell

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