ScienceLogic Reviews

We use the solution to monitor servers and DNSs.

The solution provides good infra-monitoring features. It sends me alerts.

The tool must provide a deep-down view of the infrastructure. It must add API. I would like to see how many items are waiting in a queue. I would like to monitor the database performance and know how many queries are going on or how much CPU space is used. The product is not user-friendly. We need to familiarize ourselves with it. We must gain some knowledge before starting to work with it.

I have been using the solution for a year.

I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten. It is quite stable. It is always up. It hardly ever goes down.

The tool has medium scalability. I rate the scalability a seven out of ten. We have more than 1000 users. I use the product every day. We might increase the usage if we get more add-ons.

We were using Nagios before. ScienceLogic is a bit better.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

The tool works well. I do not have any issues with it. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

The whole platform overall is very powerful. Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content. SSL certificate monitoring function is really great, one does not need to use third party software or worst ... spreadsheet.

The EM7 platform allows one to allocate resources and point them in the right direction when needed. We can monitor 6000k devices with only handful of people 24/7.

Ticketing improved dramatically from when I started working with the EM7 platform. Guys at ScienceLogic are always open to new suggestions and their voting system allows them to develop tools that are truly needed.

6 Years

Not at all. Deployment was pretty straight forward and ScienceLogic engineers were able to deploy EM7 quickly and efficiently. We are about to migrate to Virtualized system which I'm sure would be even easier.

No, even with 6000 devices we did not encounter any stability issues. Our system worked perfectly from day one.

Scalability is pretty easy. You have few different option of hardware (Dell) that you can use to expand your system by adding more collectors or expand your database.

Customer service is amazing, ScienceLogic is growing quickly however it still has a small company feel what allows their engineers to know your system well from the ground up. They are always flexible with scheduling and allow you to choose best dates that fit your calendar.

Technical Support is always there. If its small or big question I never had to wait in a queue. Usually it take them 2-3 rings to pick up the phone. Once a call is initiated they log in to your system within 5 minutes and start resolving issues and answering questions where needed.

No, ScienceLogic is the first solution that we used since there is no one out there that provides monitoring and ticketing in the same system.

Initial setup is very straightforward. Appliances with prebuild system are being shipped to you (either All in one for smaller customers or collector, database and API for anyone with few thousand devices.) System is pretty much plug and play and required only few hours of setup.

We have implemented our system via in house team. Their experience is great and they always have answers and solutions at their fingertips.

Unfortunately I do not have information on this subject since ROI is not being calculated by me. If I had to guess ROI would be around 150%

Calculate your devices and decide how many SNMP and PING devices you needed. 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.

No other options were on the market at the time when ScienceLogic came out with their Em7 platform. Their product is specializing not only in monitoring but also in Ticketing.

ScienceLogic is a great company! I worked with them for the past 6years and their growth shows that they are the leader in monitoring segment for small to medium companies. Keep up good work.

Our primary use case of ScienceLogic is as a monitoring tool. We wanted something adaptable that could monitor numerous environments and specific monitoring based on the vendor. We're a supporting organization with 170 data centers around the world. I'm a technical lead and we are customers of ScienceLogic. 

The most valuable feature is an OS that enables the deployment of a virtual machine. The product provides agentless monitoring which is based on SNMP so there's no need to install the monitoring agent on each and every server. Other credentials and monitoring are also included. We get great reports and integration is also excellent. This is a simple, easy-to-use tool. 

We often face bugs when there's a new release. 

I used this solution for six years. 

This is a stable solution and there are rarely any issues.

Scalability is good, we can increase the number of users we want. 

We have premium support so the customer service is generally good. They sometimes choose to lower the urgency of our request and then it can take a few days to get a response which can be an issue for our customers. 

Positive

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. Deployment time depends on the infrastructure. If you have less than 1000 servers, then the setup doesn't take long and can be completed within a few weeks. A larger deployment will take longer. 

The solution is an OS so a license is mandatory.

This is a pretty user-friendly tool. Much has improved in the newer version from a monitoring perspective. Everything will be in the UA so nothing is required at the back end. 

I rate this solution nine out of 10 because of its simplicity. 

I would like to spotlight four key areas where ScienceLogic excels:

1. The flexibility to support most technologies. The way ScienceLogic gathers data from multiple sources is vital to our customers. As we work with new customers (often with different technology requirements), ScienceLogic is flexible enough to support our clients’ varying network needs.
2. The opportunity to achieve high value for our services. We can provide monitoring services at different pricing levels to best fit our business model while delivering value to our customers.
3. They provide the scalability to grow with us. In just a few years, we have grown from five datacenters to over 40 datacenters. ScienceLogic has continuously grown with us.
4. The availability to provide domain expertise. ScienceLogic provided onsite professional service assistance for a key project to meet our aggressive project timelines.

The dashboards in ScienceLogic provide huge value. We can show customers exactly what we are monitoring and accurately display metrics, like uptime. We want to deliver transparency to our clients, so they can see how things are performing. ScienceLogic is our way to do that. Internally, ScienceLogic improved our billing operations.

We also attend the training and networking events ScienceLogic offers. Those meetings are essential to evolving our business.

One important area we feel could be improved is the UI. It takes a lot of clicks to do very simple tasks. However, I know this is an area where they are investing and the first version of the new UI/UX is due out soon. I am confident it will be greatly improved with the next release.

We have been using ScienceLogic since 2008.

In 2012, we had to deploy a new ScienceLogic stack and migrate data from the old stack to the new one. It was a slow process, but ScienceLogic impressed us with their commitment to resolve issues fast. They sent a professional engineer to our facility to help escalate problems and fix everything as quick as possible. We did not feel we had to resolve these issues on our own, so partnership was key.

We are confident in the stability of the product. Like any technology platforms. we've had our share of issues over the past nine years. However, ScienceLogic always works with us to ensure that our services are not impacted.

ScienceLogic continues to grow with us. There is a feedback loop between our companies which allows both of us to improve. They learn from issues we experience, and we believe they build that into new product improvements. They listen to customers and make meaningful updates based on their needs.

This is an area where a small company like ScienceLogic continues to impress us. Their customer service is unparalleled. We always get the help we need, when we need it. ScienceLogic goes above and beyond expectations giving you that personalized support. Their staff recognize what’s happening in the market and understand our goals.

We have partnered with them for more than eight years because they provide superior support. When we call, they are dedicated to help. If we have a larger issue, ScienceLogic sends their experts onsite to help us. It’s a huge relief to know that ScienceLogic is ready and willing to hear our problems and offer the right solution.

We stopped using a legacy billing tool in favor of using ScienceLogic’s platform. We also had many major third party and homegrown solutions. In 2016, we consolidated all the solutions into a ScienceLogic's EM7 solution.

The overall setup was straightforward and designed with ease in mind.

We do rely on ScienceLogic to handle our implementation needs, as required. They do an effective and efficient job. There are some complexities to implementation, but overall it is pretty painless.

We absolutely receive a high return on our investment.

Make sure you understand your business and do a cost modeling for three to five years. ScienceLogic has a variety of options to consume the product, but only you can tell them what your real needs are for short and long-term.

When we first looked them, we compared EM7, Nagios, SolarWinds, and a handful of homegrown solutions.

You must recognize the functional structure of your organization and make sure everyone understands the platform. Often times, companies find themselves faced with a "tool" sprawl. Monitoring and service assurance requires a disciplined approach and asking critical questions upfront helps solve many issues later.

I see the biggest features of EM7 is that it is can cover a lot of different products very quickly and without a ton of effort. In my book, the second biggest feature is the company behind the product, they generally respond quickly to issues with some level of urgency and they seem very motivated to innovate the software.

I have thought long and hard about the following statement but if I had to setup another shop all over again EM7 would be the first tool I would fire up #truestory.

We can approach many different solutions without a ton of lift on developers which helps us a great deal. We still need to put time into tuning what is in the defaults, but we can get up and running in short order using EM7.

Reporting is still a gigantic pain point, we invest a lot of cycles in manufacturing reports off-board -#notfun. While EM7 covers a lot of ground quickly and is capable of consuming enormous amounts of event and performance data, EM7 ironically has a hard time reporting on it - basic reporting is there, but if you let's say want to run a report for the last 90 days how many Cisco 2900 routers had a critical power supply incident that for one isn't easy and two needs a developer to write a custom report.

QA of their power-packs has been an uphill battle at times, and I feel like it's in part due to how EM7 is marketed. When a vendor claims they have a management pack for a given manufacturer, that doesn't necessarily mean its going to be dead on accurate for production use. If you need to make dead certain that the release is going to deliver I have come to learn every in step of the way to production needs thorough testing before putting it into a production environment - moral of the story here is make no assumptions and read your release notes. Also your team time for tuning the software release, like I said EM7 consumes alot of data, that always isn't a good thing.

For me the UI lays out very logically, then again I use it every day, but for many of our users navigating the UI gets confusing quickly and before long the user gets lost and frustrated and they give up. The UI for any end user facing systems needs to welcome all walks of life, EM7 at present( I know they are working on the UI currently) is really geared to the end users who are professional engineers not necessarily the weekender admin - which if you are professional engineer you're going to feel right at home.

Deployment went very smooth, their installation engineers still engage with us with is a luxury not every vendor can handle.

It's been a real workhorse for us, but you gotta take care of the horse.

As it relates to scalability : if you follow all the rules, take time to read the manuals, its infinitely scalable in my opinion. That said we haven't had any issues with scalability :)

Superior to most, they have a good account coverage plan, we get treated pretty well even when there is bad news.

Probably some of the best in the business at getting to the root of the issue quickly.

We implemented through a vendor team initially, our team seemed to have root level knowledge of the system. I haven't seen many of their engineers spending any time scratching their head on situations.

This tool is the combination of ITSM and EMS. 

My organization would like to see the following improvements to ScienceLogic:

1. ScienceLogic should provide detailed documents to customer as the current documents are not sufficient. 
2. They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance.

Its ITSM and EMS combination is really amazing. There is no need to purchase two products, one for ITSM and a second for EMS/NMS.

They should include chat support, like Zenoss. The ScienceLogic support team takes too much time.

We did face issues with its older version 8.1. 

We have not experience any fatal issues with EM7 

We have never faced any issues with scalability. 

We are using this tools for approximately 50 customers.

They should improve their support process.

We used multiple applications for NMS. Now, we are using this tool due to its dual functionality.

The initial setup is straightforward and very easy. Just mount its media and follow all the steps.

With vendor team, we had a very good experience. I would rate them a seven out of 10.

The many features offered for one price, including discovery, asset management, alerting, and ticketing, with simplified ease of integration across all features.

The ability to integrate a lot of data into one platform, with the ability to use the content to support operational and business groups.

Support for vendor private MIBs, simplify the approach to setup monitoring of all available SNMP data for a given platform type.

I've used it for over two years.

The lack of support for private MIBs required some custom professional services support. The vendor also needs to improve their attention to detail when defining the scope of professional services and managing the execution.

No issues with stability.

Use the professional services proposed solution to support private MIBs, we are encountering what appears to be poling time outs, which creates false positives. We are still working through this issue.

3/5, but you have to push the issues to ensure a good response and timely follow up.

3/5 overall, but their advanced support teams are very solid and I would give them a 5/5.

We used Openview, but the administrative skill set required specialized staff. We were looking for a replacement for basic monitoring and discovered this solution, which offered a lot more features, some of which were on our priority list and did not expect to find in one solution.

Straightforward, but once you get past discovery you have to learn how to setup monitoring and event messages. There is a lot of automation as discovered, but you have to understand what is automatically setup and why. Then you can look at customizing things for your environment.

Vendor team whose skill level I would give a 4/5 for the understanding of their platform.

The original investment started at $25K, with an additional $225K to scale it to support our requirements across a large enterprise with up to 5,000 devices and access for thousands of users.

Yes, but we ended up to an extended evaluation of this product and none of the other ones we found offered the broad range of features.

Commit resources to focus on learning and exploiting all of the features. With so many features it can be a distraction. Need to have a clear set of requirements that you are looking to satisfy. Then you can layer on other features to compliment your original strategy.

The dashboards are probably the best selling point. API functionality, customization features, and flexibility of the tool in general, are the best features.

We lacked the power or features that the EM7 dashboards provide, and have won more than one account based on that alone. Same scenario for AWS support.

I would like to see an expansion of the API.

We have been working with ScienceLogic and EM7 for approximately one and a half years.

The ScienceLogic Deployment Team took care of our installation and configuration, and walked us through some of the basics we needed to get off the ground. Their team is knowledgeably and friendly, and it was incredibly helpful that they provided this service for us.

My Redundant/DR deployment has been running, issue free, for one and a half years.

Shouldn't encounter any issues - when we are ready, or it is necessary, a global manager function will help us manage multiple deployments from a single interface.

10 out of 10

10 out of 10

We use multiple solutions, however this is by far the most customizable and feature rich solution in our arsenal.

The HA or DR deployments introduce some minor complexities, however the deployment team stands ready to assist with any issues that are encountered, or can deploy with you onsite.

We used a vendor team who I would rate a 10 out of 10.

Yes, we also looked at Nagios, SolarWinds, Zabbix, and Nimsoft.

It's packed with features and out-of-the-box integrations, there is quite a bit going on in this tool, so the learning curve can be a bit steeper than other tools in this category, but very powerful and customizable, and their support infrastructure is top notch.

Talk to Sales and Technical Support - ask a lot of questions. They will get you set on the right course.