LogicMonitor Reviews

We are a managed service provider and deploy LogicMonitor to support our customer base and monitor assets in the network.

We use it for monitoring our customers and alerting them when something happens. We also use it for dashboard reporting, both performance reporting and end-of-month reporting. We are now moving to use the platform with API connectivity to our new billing solution, to enable both-way billing updates. What that means for us is the ability to create an order, have the monitored endpoint in LogicMonitor created, and also feed back into the billing system so that we can invoice our customers correctly.

LogicMonitor is a cloud-based application and there is a small appliance installed on-premises to act as a collector. It's the device that talks to the cloud and is the intermediary talking to all the devices inside the network.

The benefit for us of LogicMonitor is the scalability of the solution to support many customers with a large number of devices. As our business scales, we are not having to go back and strap on more infrastructure or re-patch this or do that. It's a cloud-based platform that gives us all the benefits that come with consuming SaaS-based offerings.

Our customers are not necessarily aware that we use LogicMonitor in the background. They're buying a managed service from us and we choose to use LogicMonitor to deliver our services. But what they like about it is the ability to see information in real-time. Information that is presented in a way that they can gain value from it.

The solution enables us to pretty much drop a collector and automatically pick up everything in the target IT environment and map relationships. There is still tweaking that needs to happen after that. There can be devices that aren't configured correctly, and therefore you've got to go and do them, but it will at least tell you that some attention is needed. In some instances, there will be devices that it won't find because they're not running any of the necessary protocols to be found. But in our case, we're a little bit different because we know specifically the devices that we want to monitor. Generally we limit what to look for because we know exactly what we're expecting to find. But from a deployment point of view, the ability to drop a collector certainly saves a lot of time and effort, and the tools that are available make it quite easy to deploy and set up a customer quickly.

The collectors, along with templated integrations and dashboards, enable us to automate our onboarding process and rollout for new customers. When we onboard a new customer, we obviously want to be able to do it as quickly as possible. Building up everything based on templates allows us to save on effort and cost. We have invested a fair bit of effort into developing our own templates based on those included in the system. They allow us to deploy our look and feel in the solution we provide to our customers. That's a particularly important part of it because we really could not afford to be doing a custom deployment for every single customer type.

And when it comes to future-proofing our business to support our customers, we're quite comfortable with what the product offers today, and what Logic Monitor has been rolling into it for the last eight to 12 months. It is in line with what we would be expecting to offer our customer base. We want to see continued investment by LogicMonitor in AIOps, application performance management, logging, and enhanced dashboards. Their continuous product development is vital because we can't offer what we provide today in two years. We must evolve what we offer our customers, and that means we need our vendors to do the same thing: better capabilities, more capabilities, things that we couldn't offer before.

In terms of the functionality and capabilities of LogicMonitor, while it is only a small part of what we do through our managed service offering, it's a strong enabling tool to make that part happen. We'd like to think that it gives us "customer stickiness". In the end, it's part of an overall offering, albeit a very integral part of it. Could we do it without LogicMonitor? Maybe, but it would be a lot harder, and we would need another tool that does it as comprehensively as LogicMonitor does today.

In addition, LogicMonitor gives us visibility into issues that we didn't even know existed. That is the key aspect of the solution. It uncovers underlying issues before they require a full, reactive response. That's the value of this style of solution: understanding predictive behavior that might be symptomatic of something more serious occurring or failing.

I can imagine that if we didn't have the tools from LogicMonitor, it would take a much longer time to sort out some of the issues we see. The tools simply throw up an alert and we can go straight in and start resolving.

One of the features I consider most valuable is the flexibility it gives us to configure the solution to do what we need to do and what our customers are asking us for.

We use the solution’s templated integrations to get instant visibility into all the technology we monitor. That's an integral part of the solution, in that we don't want to be writing code and having to develop new connectors to talk to new appliances. There's a strong community, along with information provided by LogicMonitor, to keep the tools up to date for talking to all those different network devices. There's a massive library of all the potential devices that we might find in a network, information that is sitting there and ready for us to use should we come across a customer that has something that we've never seen before. The likelihood is that there is already a template built for it that we can leverage.

We started out using the solution's templated dashboards, but we have built a number of customized dashboards as well. The templated dashboards are a good starting point. In terms of customizing dashboards, there is a steep learning curve, but once over that hurdle and you understand the way the dashboards work, how to extract the information and display it, and what's possible, it becomes very easy. The concept of developing a dashboard template for ourselves, then cloning it for every single customer, and only having to change one piece of information, is a godsend. That's one of the strengths. We can develop a template that fits every customer and just change the information that is presented. The templated dashboards save us time getting up and running with visibility into our customers' environments and help our customers because we present some of those dashboards to them.

There are some very specific things that need improvement in LogicMonitor. One is the lack of formatting for customized alerts, particularly the delivery of them to our email channel. We'd also like to see further customization of dashboards. Finally, something that is specific to us as an MSP that uses LogicMonitor, is white-labeling or skinning of the product, so we can make it look more customer-focused for our customers.

I've been using LogicMonitor for nearly 18 months.

We have not had an issue since we installed the solution, at all. It has been rock-solid.

We're still a small business, but we've had no issues with scalability. We have added many new customers without any impact on performance. One of our key reasons for choosing this solution is the scalability when consuming a cloud-based product. We don't have to worry about our scalability. If we double, triple, or quadruple in size, we simply consume licenses as required. We're not worried about platform hardware and all the security challenges that go with that. 

Apart from the scalability, the security of the platform, and the functionality that's rolled into it, comes with scale. That includes connecting more customers, more devices, more collectors, and through more API calls. It gives us the ability to do that without even thinking about the impact of adding another block of 500 devices to it. It is fantastic. We just look after our customers and don't have to worry about the platform in the backend.

We've had excellent support, both tech support and account support.

From the outset, as a brand new user when we first started, there was a fairly steep learning curve to LogicMonitor. However, now that we understand how to get good value out of it, we find it quite easy. We are at the point where we're starting to automate the configuration so we don't have to spend anywhere near as much time as we did when setting up our first couple of customers.

For organizations picking up LogicMonitor for the first time, I would suggest they take advantage of the onboarding teams from LogicMonitor, their success manager and their account manager, to get from start to operate as quickly as possible.

The solution gives us the ability to charge a competitive price for a premium product. The cost of LogicMonitor is built into our service offering. From our point of view, it's a cost component for delivering our service.

For us, LogicMonitor is now value for money, but we are still on a plan from a few years ago. The challenge for us in Australia is the billing from LogicMonitor is done in U.S. dollars. The exchange rate between the Aussie dollar and the U.S. dollar has not gone in our favor over the last 12 months. A number of the other big players in this space will bill in your local currency, and that is of value to us. We've raised the issue with LogicMonitor.

That said, they're generally quite open and flexible to a discussion around licensing. We're on the the full Enterprise offering. We've pretty much got everything turned on. From our point of view, they've always come back to the table when we've had to grow and move to the next level, and they've given us advice on the best way to do that.

We evaluated six solutions at the time. We then narrowed it down to a short-list of three, and we ended up buying two systems. We still operate two systems today because there are a couple of things that LogicMonitor doesn't do that the other systems do extraordinarily well. That's the way we've chosen to run our business. The specific lack in LogicMonitor is the real-time, live network map. It has basic functionality, but it's nothing like the competitive offers from SolarWinds or Auvik.

Like any good project, spend plenty of time upfront working out precisely what you want out of LogicMonitor, before you race off and start deploying it. Otherwise, you'll end up doing a lot of reworking. Take advantage of the onboarding resources, and even pay a little bit of money, if needed, to give you that leg up and the headstart in understanding how the platform works. If you know what your customers want to get out of it, and what you want to get out of it as a business, the platform will most likely be able to give you what you want. From there, you'll end up in a comfortable operational place where you can look at taking the next step into process automation with all the API functionality to improve business efficiency.

The strength of LogicMonitor is in the dashboards and the information that's available. Every customer likes a dashboard, so if we can give them dashboards that provide meaningful, real-time information about what's happening in their network and across their business, they see significant value in that. Most solutions don't have that today.

We use it as a primary monitoring tool for our cloud offerings. I work for one of the largest service providers in Australia and their cloud solutions. We monitor the entire cloud solutions using LogicMonitor.

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. One does not need to configure everything individually. It automatically detects all the resources by their type and starts monitoring them almost immediately.

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. I hope it will be there in the future.

My colleagues feel the ease of use is a concern because to implement the granularity of the product, you need some programming knowledge and understanding of code development.

So, it becomes a challenge for everyone in your company, especially administrators who might not know how to code. Otherwise, there is no problem with LogicMonitor.

I have been using the solution for the past four years.

It is a stable solution.

It is highly scalable. We have never seen any issues regarding resource crunch. It's an everyday thing. All of our services use it as a primary resource for monitoring infrastructure. So in my department, we have fifty-odd people, and the service desk is around twenty-odd people. Our company is significant. We are on the verge of deciding whether You want to use this for the entire organization because a bigger company has acquired us, and that company does not use LogicMonitor. And we are pushing that LogicMonitor is a good resource for us, and we should use it across the company. Right now, it is in one department, but we want to push it across the organization, then it would become really big. We would have around two thousand end users using it. So, currently, we have two, and if this goes organization-wide, then there would probably be more people getting on board for this.

It's very good. They were there when we required some assistance from LogicMonitor. I personally dealt with those cases, and I was extremely satisfied with the kind of response I received. I rate it ten out of ten.

Positive

I worked with NETGEAR and other internal tools, but nothing was as elaborate, extensive, graphically oriented, and well-informed as LogicMonitor. It is one of the best product analysts.

The initial setup is straightforward. It took us around a week to thoroughly architect the solution deployment. The collectivity takes hardly five to ten minutes to install on any machine you want to be a collector and a monitoring resource. It doesn't take more than ten minutes. And installation of an architect is just a one-time job. You don't do it every day like we did it four years back. After that, we didn't look at it. We only spent some time, like, ten minutes creating new collectors, and that's it.

The pricing can be a little aggressive. Right now, it's a bit much for smaller organizations to adopt it. But comparatively, it also provides good features. So it's a give and take.

We did evaluate it, and we saw pros and content. Looking at the cost structure, everything, and business requirements, this was the best fit for us.

As I told you, this bigger company has acquired us. The other departments use that product, and the cost structure is not as high as LogicMonitor. But I am researching it. I still need more information. But with my initial research, I found a gap in how Icinga takes care of necessary components of our infrastructure, especially IBM web infrastructure, and how LogicMonitor incorporates that versus how Icinga does it. I still need profound information, but the preliminary research shows a LogicMonitor is better.

They have to first evaluate their options, consider their business requirements, use cases, and fix the purpose. If it is to process, LogicMonitor is definitely a tool to go for.

I rate it ten out of ten.

We use LogicMonitor to monitor our customer environments. Some customers opt to look after their own environments, but some customers have us monitor them for them.

We use it to monitor the availability of servers and of network hardware. We have some storage array networks that are being monitored by it as well. We really use it as a guide to help. We monitor all of the key components in the different environments that we have running under LogicMonitor, and we use LogicMonitor as an early-warning system. If a problem develops in a customer environment, and we're monitoring it with LogicMonitor, then we get fairly rapid notification that there's a problem so we can start looking into it and doing something about it.

Also, along with all of that monitoring comes a lot of information logging for things like bandwidth, so we can see how much data is coming and going over different links. If a customer came to us and said, "We're thinking about downgrading the network links that we have," we have evidence to present to them to say, "Yes, it's okay to do that because you're hardly using the network link." Or we can say, "We wouldn't advise you to do that because we've observed that you're using most of that link and, if anything, you need to increase your bandwidth."

The device numbers being monitored is definitely on the order of several hundred among our three or four dozen customers. We're probably monitoring 50 different environments.

The solution's ability to alert you if the cloud loses contact with the on-prem Collectors is the crux of the solution. The customers are relying on us being proactive and highly responsive to any outages in their environments. A lot of the time, when we're phoning the customer up and saying, "We've detected that you've got an outage here," the customer doesn't even know about it. It hasn't even filtered through and their people haven't reported it. LogicMonitor enables us to consistently really wow the customers by sorting that out. They're saying, "I didn't even know that there was a problem in the environment," and we're already getting on and fixing it because LogicMonitor has allowed us to do that. It's really good.

The deployment is all automated, once we've selected where we want the Collectors to go. It saves us time because we're not having to faff around doing it. That might save us an hour per customer. The agentless aspect of it speeds up the deployment. Once we've got a single Collector there, we can leverage the information that that Collector can gather from all of the other devices. That's also really good.

The monitoring is the most valuable feature, the ability to have Collectors monitoring the health of different services. That's the thing that really helps us.

Among the dashboards, it's the availability ones that are my favourites. We have them set up so that they're only going to flag problems. If we look at the dashboard and it's completely empty, then we know that everything's in the green. If we look at the dashboard and there are entries on it, it means that somebody, somewhere, has a problem.

We use LogicMonitor's ability to customize data sources where a customer is providing web services or when looking at the availability of shared storage arrays. That's where we've started to customize it a little bit more to look at specific metrics that the Collectors have.

LogicMonitor provides us with granular alerts tuning for devices and that enhances our monitoring. The granularity that LogicMonitor goes into is really good. At first it can be a bit overwhelming because there's so much to it. But once you've distilled down the bits that you need to be paying attention to, and the bits that you're not particularly interested in, then it makes it quite simple. And when I say "all of the bits that you're not interested in," you're not interested in them right now. But that's not to say that in the future a requirement won't come up where you actually need to look at those bits. The fact that it supports so many different monitoring features is really good.

One of the areas that I sometimes find confusing is the way that the data is presented. For example, a couple of weeks back I was looking at bandwidth utilization. That's quite a difficult thing to present, but they should try to dumb down how the data is presented and simplify what they're presenting. With some data types, it's not really possible to do that. 

But that's one of the good things about LogicMonitor: You've got all of the data there. The sheer wealth of data that it gathers means that you can take that data and manipulate it in other ways, if you want to.

We've been using LogicMonitor for three or four years now. We're partnered with LogicMonitor, so we can resell the solution as well.

I work in a pre-sales role, so when customers need new solutions they will come and ask. If I'm looking to scope replacement hardware, or if I'm looking to review the bandwidth utilization at a customer site, that's when I would go into LogicMonitor. Our service desk, predominantly, does the day-to-day monitoring. Whenever I come to LogicMonitor, it's a case of delving into historical data. At the same time, I've got an appreciation of how the solution works and the cool stuff that it'll do.

I've got no reason to believe that it's unstable, at all. I've not heard of Collectors crashing or the main console being unavailable for any extended period of time. There are periods of maintenance where it would be unavailable, but I'm certainly not aware of anything that was cause for concern with regards to the stability.

It scales well; no concerns whatsoever.

I've never actually used their technical support, but I know that our guys have, and they've always been able to fix problems fairly quickly. The technical support, as far as I'm aware, is really good.

I believe LogicMonitor monitors most devices out-of-the-box, but that was done with the setup which I wasn't involved in. We've got a lot of different customers. They've all got different types of network hardware. They've all got different storage arrays. Some of them have different types of hosts from different manufacturers. But we're able to monitor all of them with LogicMonitor because the information that LogicMonitor is pulling from them is common across them. The devices include Dell and HPE hardware, such as storage arrays, including Nimble, as well as a lot of Cisco networking gear. It will even monitor stuff that isn't enterprise-grade, but provided that something is enterprise-grade, it typically conforms to all of the WMI monitoring capabilities that LogicMonitor plugs into.

We have about half-a-dozen people who use LogicMonitor, and they're mostly third-line support engineers, so they're quite senior engineers. We have first- and second-line support and they just do the monitoring, but a lot of the really serious investigation, if there are any issues, go over to senior roles.

It gives us the ability to talk about our monitoring solution and service with a very high degree of confidence in ourselves. And we can set very high SLAs because we know that LogicMonitor is reliably going to tell us if there's a problem anywhere. That will enable us to start working on it very quickly, which in turn will help us to deliver very high SLAs  and very rapid response times to our customers. Obviously, customers are going to be happy about that because they want things fixed quickly. That is the best benefit that I see from it.

It's an enterprise-grade solution and competitively priced compared to the other solutions that are out there. If it were extortionately expensive, we wouldn't be using it. If it weren't doing what we needed it to do, we wouldn't be using it. 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.

When you compare it to competitors, maybe some of the competitors' products are going to be a bit cheaper, but it comes down to the functionality that you're getting. You're paying for what you're getting, so I would say it's good value for money.

The solution's overall reporting capabilities are pretty good. We've assessed a lot of different solutions, because if we're offering a monitoring service to customers, it needs to be really good. We looked at SolarWinds and other ones, but LogicMonitor was the one that consistently came out on top across the monitoring requirements. LogicMonitor was hands-down the best.

LogicMonitor consolidates the monitoring tools that we need in one solution. We didn't have any tools in place originally, but all of the different types of things that we want to monitor comprised one of the reasons that LogicMonitor came out on top. It was the sheer breadth of functions that it has. A lot of the monitoring solutions that we were looking at would only do maybe 75 percent of it. They would monitor the uptime of servers and they would monitor the availability of network links, but they wouldn't give us any information around the bandwidth utilization of those network links. Other solutions would give us the bandwidth utilization, but then they wouldn't be able to monitor the servers. LogicMonitor gave us everything in one package.

It's the depth of data that it gathers that I find really useful because there's nothing worse, when you're trying to find information about something or dig deeper into something, than hitting the bottom of the information really quickly and not having enough information to work with. With LogicMonitor, there is a load of information to dig through. It's a really good solution for that.

I'm not aware of any false positives that we get through LogicMonitor. That could be because we've tuned it over time so that we've tuned out any of those false positives. But generally speaking, if LogicMonitor flags something, there is a problem. Sometimes those problems are transient and something is just flagged because there was a blip in the system for whatever reason. But then it resolves itself without any intervention. LogicMonitor still allows us to see all of that stuff.

There are always lessons learned when you're running anything like this at scale. You set things up the way you think they should be set up initially, and then, with 20/20 hindsight you invariably decide, "Well, we didn't need to do that. We should have done this." But the solution allows you to do that. You don't end up fenced into a corner where you configured something the wrong way initially and you can't undo it. If you do see ways of doing things better, you can change them as you go.

I would rate LogicMonitor a 10 out 10. I've used other monitoring solutions over the years, and LogicMonitor does things really well. The console may not be quite as flashy as others that I've seen, but it's perfectly functional. Having a flashy console is not necessarily the be all and end all because, often, if the console is flashy, and it distracts you from what you're looking at. Every time I've ever used LogicMonitor, it's given me everything I needed out of it. I've got no complaints about it whatsoever.

I use it every day. We are a small MSP in the Netherlands. We have about 90 customers, and they have a lot of on-prem hardware such as servers, switches, voice systems, and devices. We monitor their environments making sure that everything is working fine. We monitor the hardware and the software performance, basic use, and things like that.

It is a cloud product. You have your on-prem LogicMonitor agents called collectors, and they send all the information to the cloud of LogicMonitor. You can view the state of everything there.

It seems Amazon hosted on the backside, so it should be a public cloud, but I am not sure.

When we have a new customer onboarding or when a customer visits us, we can show them how far we are able to monitor their systems. It is very easy for us to deploy it for a new customer. Most of the time, we go to the customer, and we deploy the collector. After that, we can tell them where the issues are. For instance, we can tell a customer that their main performance issues are related to their disks, servers, or memory usage on their SQL Server database, which helps in getting a sales conversation. We are able to say that if they are going to be a customer of ours, we will deploy the solution, and we will be monitoring it 24/7, but for now, they can do this. That's an easy selling point for us while engaging new customers. We can really help them with technical issues by using this solution.

One thing that's very valuable for us is the technical knowledge of the people who work with LogicMonitor. We looked at several products before we decided to use LogicMonitor, and one of the key decision-making points was the knowledge of the things that they put in the product. It provides real intelligence regarding the numbers that you see on the product, which makes it easy for us technical people to troubleshoot. Other products don't provide you with such information. You see a value going up, but you don't know what it means. LogicMonitor provides such information. For instance, if a value goes up, it says that it is probably because your disk area was too low. 

The other thing that's very well done is the implementation of the product. When you are buying the product, you get a product manager from them who leads you towards the end result.

One thing that could be really better is the mapping. Auvik is really good at it. They have a really nice way to give you a visual representation of your network, but in LogicMonitor, this functionality is not as powerful and as good as Auvik.

We sometimes have glitches with the updates. You can opt-in or opt-out for the updates. LogicMonitor makes an update for a new device, such as a new device from Fortinet, so that you can monitor that. There could also be an update for the LogicMonitor collector. 

When you do an update, you might get a warning that you shouldn't have got, but it is pretty easy to roll back your update so that you don't have it anymore. You can wait for the next update, or you can ask a technician to help you in a chat. They would need to look at your products, so you have to allow them to go live with you. They mostly solve the problem for you within a day.

If I need 1,000 more servers, it is just plug-and-play. There are no problems with that at all.

We are an MSP in the Netherlands, and we have a lot of small companies that we are managing. They mostly don't have their own IT persons, so they're all managed by us. We also have customers who are able to log into their own monitoring software and see their own environment.

They're really fast. I can chat with an engineer. It's not a bot; there is a real engineer. They help me with the product. If it is something difficult, it might take them two days, but most of the time, they're pretty quick.

We previously used Zenoss, which is an open-source monitoring software, but there is no intelligence behind it to give you the answers about the things that you get on your dashboard. It is a different product. They have a free version, and they have a paid version. The paid version that they do has good support, but the intelligence behind LogicMonitor is what I like the most about it.

When you are buying the product, you get a product manager from them who leads you towards the end result. They make a real project of what you want to use it for so that you have complete monitoring access up and running with event logs and the ticketing system, which is a good thing. They really help you with that. If you are transitioning from one product to another, they ask you what you want to transfer and how long do you think you are going to need to prepare everything for the switch over and even turn off the old system. They want to be involved in that.

It is very simple to set up for technical people. It is not a problem at all. We have finished 1,000 devices in about three months. The first month was to deploy the collectors and to make all the credential settings at the company site on all devices. You have to log into the device and configure some settings. In the next month, we added all the equipment. We got a lot of alerts because everything was new in LogicMonitor. We used the last month for alert tuning. You have to tune down the number of alerts and solve some problems to see what's going on. When you get more than 1,000 alerts a day, you're not able to look at them all, and it is necessary to get a good view of the system. So, it took us three months to switch from one system to another, and we did that with three people.

The setup is pretty straightforward, and it can be easily done by one person. For a small environment or a small company, it will take one or two days to set up the product to be able to log in and see things. 

Its management, of course, can't be done by one person. That's because there are a lot of views and alerts, and there are a lot of things you need to do and manage every day. It needs maintenance. When you get a disk warning, you have to get an engineer to replace the disk. When you get performance issues, you have to contact that customer because they need more licenses or more hardware. It is not a product that you just look at; it is a product you have to use every day. It gives you information about the things that you need to do. For example, when you're driving your car and you get a maintenance warning for your engine, you have to plan maintenance at the garage. The car only gives you the information. Similarly, LogicMonitor only gives you the information.

We are able to provide help with a lot of last moment troubleshooting. If a customer says that they have a problem, we ask them when did they have it last. We can go back in time, and we can look at the logs and say that it was this server that was doing something, which makes troubleshooting easier. 

We have bought Unomaly functionality, and we can search across all event logs from our customers. We can search with a name, or we can search for the last 12 hours. It gives us every event of every server and its time. It is a very fast way to look at a log file. It even has some intelligence in it, but that's a different story.

It is pretty expensive, but we now need one less full-time engineer. With on-prem, we used to have one more engineer in our department. That engineer has now moved to another department. Our capacity is better with this product than the previous one. It is easy for us to manage the sites.

You have to choose between the standard account and the premium account. With the premium account, you get a lot more than the standard one, and you can also buy some extra features. It is a good thing to look at them because you would probably want to buy them. You should take your time and negotiate the price. They are easy. Like all cloud providers, they are able to discuss the price and if necessary, change the price.

We reviewed other solutions. One of the key reasons for going for it was the knowledge of the things that they put in the product. The other products we reviewed give you a lot of things for monitoring, but when something is happening, they don't give you the information about if it is good or bad. 

For the test management software for server environments, we have used a product called Kaseya, which is not a big company. They have Kaseya Traverse that's a very intelligent program for monitoring. It is the next best thing for me to look at. It is a real competitive program for Kaseya Traverse.

They are adding features faster than we can implement them. They have a very good development team. They have also made some acquisitions. They acquired Unomaly that did log analysis. It was from a Swedish company. That product is now completely integrated with LogicMonitor, and we bought that extra piece of software because one package doesn't fit all. It is a package that we are using to enhance our product catalog for logs, and it is a very useful one.

I would advise making a good project plan for migrating. That's the most important thing to do. Make a good choice while buying, and take your time. Don't rush into anything. When you're looking for monitoring software, you need to know what you need and what is nice to have. There are always things that you want to have, but they are not really necessary. You should choose products that can fit them all. As a system engineer, I want to have one pane of glass to look at everything. I don't want to switch screens to look at another log file or another system. I want to have it all visible in one system. That's the most important choice you can make as an engineer.

I would rate it a nine out of 10. Its price makes it a nine for me because it is pretty expensive. Otherwise, I would choose it over everything else. I will look at another product, but I'm sure I will come back to LogicMonitor.

We use the solution for network monitoring. 

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 warnings allow us to correlate data and identify areas where we should take action, even if the issues aren't critical.

The most useful feature we've found in LogicMonitor is its ability to deploy templates automatically. It's quite smart in this regard. When we add a device, it detects the type of device and deploys the appropriate template for it.  

The tool's alerting system has been pretty good for us. We receive SMS alerts if we're not in front of our screens, which has improved our response time to potential issues. The escalation chains feature has been particularly useful in this regard. Overall, it's easy to use and simplifies our alerting process.

The tool is highly integratable. 

LogicMonitor should improve its logging features. It can become expensive and should be cost-effective. It would be great to see prebuilt templates for alerting methods in LogicMonitor that are similar to the prebuilt dashboards. Currently, users have to build their alerting configurations. 

I have been using the product for more than two years. 

I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten. 

The response time for support needs to be better. They're pretty fast in responding, but there are many areas they won't cover; it often falls out of scope. While they're good at getting back to us, they're not owning the issue and assisting. 

Neutral

The tool's deployment is very simple. 

The solution is not expensive. 

We use Datadog for cloud monitoring. I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution for managed services, Azure/AWS, Kubernetes, and website monitoring.

We look after all sorts of devices and being able to have monitoring coverage of 90% of things we need is great and saves us time. If we need to make some specific change we can and it's relatively easy to do.

Having a suite of modules that do all the work for you rather than having to set up loads of things yourself and it be there straight away ready to go is mind-blowing.

Being able to use this tool with relative ease makes it a worthy monitoring solution.

LogicMonitor allows streamlined use and offers ease of use with an all-in-one monitoring solution that is SaaS-based. Having this solution SaaS-based means we don't have to handle the platform updates.

Having a full team at LogicMonitor for support is super helpful as they are available all the time to answer any questions you may have.

Having a super easy tool to work with allowed our support staff to get up to speed quickly and has made dealing with alerts and incidents a breeze.

LogicModules are great. Creating these is super easy and fun. Allowing users to make their own modules allows monitoring to be covered from all angles. We can make a script, for example, and go get metrics that may not be there out of the box.

The dashboard is helpful for showing off all that data you collect and impressing customers. Dashboards are a real good selling point as showcasing the data you collect all in one place makes troubleshooting and keeping an eye on things way easier that a giant alert list. Having them on a slideshow is super neat too.

Role-based permissions could be better and updating modules could be smoother. They are my biggest complaints as they are lacking in comparison to other tools I have experienced. That said, all the feedback we can give to help improve the product as it matures will help the LogicMonitor team build an amazing solution in years to come.

Roles just miss some extra permissions such as allowing people to see certain instances yet not the full device. We'd like to allow for dynamic groups to be made without the need for root permissions. 

Module updates are important and you have got to stay on top of them. However, this needs work to make it easier as the loss of data can occur if you are too out of date.

We've used the solution for over five years now.

I have never had an issue where the stability of the portal was affected.

The solution offers very good performance and can scale easily and flexibly. 

I'd advise new users to set it up the way they want and make sure they update/import everything they can.

We primarily use it for unified observability, network compliance, and the benefit of an easy-to-administrate SaaS-based solution.

I'm familiar with LogicMonitor, mainly through my clients. Its key features include network discovery, user-friendly dashboards, and robust reporting capabilities.

Once you have your data within LogicMonitor, whether it's for network, server, or storage data, your LogicMonitor has many dashboards built out of the box. So, all your data is consolidated in a nice, efficient way. Suppose a customer needs to provide reports to management or understand which devices have been added during a certain period or are out of compliance.

LogicMonitor needs to invest more in APM functionality. The solution's core focus is infrastructure monitoring, but LogicMonitor is endeavoring to expand into the APM space with the tool. It works adequately but could benefit from additional investment to enhance its performance.

I have been using LogicMonitor for three to four years.

I've had no issues. I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

The solution is suitable for enterprise customers. Twenty users are using this solution.

Scalability is excellent. Many other solutions cannot scale up to a sizable footprint without hiring more staff, allocating more resources to infrastructure, or obtaining additional budget.

They offer various support levels to clients, allowing them to choose the level of service they prefer. Typically, enterprise customers opt for premium support or even higher levels. With round-the-clock availability and resolution within an hour or two, custom support is also available.

Positive

The initial setup is easier than other solutions, so we partnered with 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 licenses can vary.

LogicMonitor is a SaaS-based solution, but users can deploy it wherever they want. They can deploy collectors in the cloud, on-premises, on their servers, or VMs. It's flexible in how it can be deployed. However, unlike many other monitoring tools, you don't need to set up a lot of infrastructure.

For an enterprise customer, LogicMonitor may not be considered excessively expensive. It tends to have a higher price tag compared to legacy monitoring solutions, yet it offers more value. Smaller customers with only a few hundred licenses might perceive it as pricier since they have fewer items to monitor and fewer demands. The true value of the solution shines in large, intricate environments where it can effectively monitor hundreds of devices.

In terms of advice, anyone currently using a monitoring solution is likely aware of its shortcomings. I suggest not hesitating to challenge the status quo and explore alternative solutions. LogicMonitor, among others, represents a significant step forward in SaaS-based monitoring solutions. These platforms offer considerable value with minimal ramp-up time and learning curve. Considering a solution like LogicMonitor, it's crucial to identify the gaps in your current monitoring environment. I encourage you to try it; reach out to a reseller, such as myself, or directly to LogicMonitor to explore the platform. It's one of those situations where seeing is believing; you need to experience the value firsthand.

We haven't had any issues with LogicMonitor. All of my clients have loved it and are renewing their subscriptions. It has been fantastic compared to many other tools we've used, especially in the reusability space.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a complete infrastructure monitoring tool. It can be used to monitor your network devices, your servers, et cetera. It is a good tool, actually.

We didn't have a monitoring tool previously, so we monitored via independent components. Once we implemented LogicMonitor, we gained a centralized dashboard for everything. Now, we have a complete view of infrastructure in one pane of glass.

Its monitoring features and the support on offer are pretty good.

It offers one centralized view of everything.

The initial setup is very simple. 

It is stable and reliable. 

The product can scale. 

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

We have been using it for almost one year now.

I've never had issues with stability. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

The scalability is excellent. I would rate it eight out of ten in terms of being able to expand as needed. 

We have an environment that covers around 2,000 servers. We may increase usage in the future, although there is no plan in place as of right now.  

Technical support is very good. They are knowledgeable and helpful.

Positive

We did not previously have a different solution in place. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not overly complex. I'd rate the ease of setup eight out of ten. 

The deployment took around 30 to 40 days. One or two people handled the initial deployment process. 

There were prerequisites, and we made a plan on how to proceed and followed that roadmap during implementation.

The solution provided support during implementation. After that, our team took over and handled the rest of the process. 

I'm part of the technical team and do not directly deal with pricing. 

Other tools may have been evaluated; however, that process was handled before I arrived at the company. 

This is a SaaS-based solution. We have URL access to it. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten overall. I'm happy with its capabilities. 

I would recommend it to others as it is a very good tool.