ScienceLogic Reviews

Power packs.

With all the new devices being deployed, it is great to see the vender supporting them as they come out.

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.

Five years.

Never.

Never. It runs at 100% and performs at 100%.

No.

It is top rated. I have never waited on hold for help.

It is top rated. They always have a solution or an answer to my questions.

SevOne. EM7 is just more feature rich and stable.

Very easy and straightforward.

In-house.

100%.

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

SevOne.

If your looking to have an OSS, demo EM7.

We make extensive use of the custom application profiling and monitoring. Most of our applications have enterprise SNMP MIBS and we make extensive use of the modelling capabilities and auto-discovery/classification to ensure our systems are monitored when they come online.

One of our largest challenges before implementing our ScienceLogic system was the presence of nuisance alarms. After implementing ScienceLogic, we were able to eliminate this issue by extensive use of the modelling tools.

The reporting module needs work. We often find ourselves creating reports by accessing the backend database directly instead of the built-in tools. We would also like to see improvements in the modelling capabilities for the IT service toolset.

We have been using ScienceLogic for over 7 years.

Deployment was done in a systematic way by cutting over segments of the network and types of systems. We did not have any significant issues with deployment.

We have not had issues with stability for several years. The platform is very stable and does not require a lot of system admin time.

We currently have 20,000+ systems in our primary ScienceLogic system and general performance is acceptable. We would like better scalability in the time-series performance data storage.

We don't use a lot of customer service directly from ScienceLogic. We have a long standing relationship with them and typically cut through to the appropriate level straight away.

Technical support is good. We have extensive in-house knowledge and typically only escalate the most serious of technical challenges.

Yes. Our previous product had many deficiencies including lack of logical expressions, mixed licensing, limited cross-functional tools, and other issues. Also, getting our own enhancements into the product was impossible.

It was basically straight forward to get up and running. Assuming networking and firewalls are open appropriately it can be setup and providing value within hours.

Both. We typically handle our own implementation for small upgrades and installations. For large upgrades, we contract ScienceLogic directly to assist. They are very knowledgeable in their support for implementation.

That is difficult to measure for a monitoring platform... We consider it a positive ROI by having to the ability to get high quality actionable events and reducing headcount needed to maintain multiple tools.

Boils down to each organization - you can model ScienceLogic as a subscription or as a capital purchase + expense. We have a mixed model depending on the organization within our company and its preference.

Yes, we looked at SevOne, HPOV (NNM + OVO), SMARTS + Watch3Net, plus a few others. We also weighed open source products like Nagios and OpenNMS.

ScienceLogic is an excellent all around suite of tools. We were able to reduce the number of tools by its adoption. They constantly innovate and move in lockstep to most industry trends.

We use the product to monitor our servers, network switches, and other devices. We can check if there are any issues with the patching.

ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard. Additionally, there are role-based access features for admins.

Admins do not have direct access to the reporting. It goes first to the AIOps team, who have access to reports. They forward based on what is required and requested through us. We have to follow up protocols to get through that. It needs improvement. 

I have been using ScienceLogic as a customer for the last nine months. We are using the latest version.

Initially, we encountered customization-related issues. I rate the product’s stability a six out of ten.

Adding resources is easy and accessible in ScienceLogic. You can customize and monitor and can have automated management. You can write automation scripts with the right level of access and send alerts and notifications. It is a built-in feature, but only some have access to it.

In my team, we have 25 ScienceLogic admins. In the AIOps team, we have another 50 users. Its scalability is a seven or eight out of ten.

Our AIOps team manages the application and does the customizations for each team. They initiate contact with the technical support team.

The setup is straightforward. It is easy to manage and check for alerts. The classification of alerts is specific. It makes it easier for admins to manage alerts. We can quickly identify what is critical and a warning-level alert. We move the managed servers across the network while migrating the clients' data from other products to ScienceLogic.

ScienceLogic is a great tool for system administrators. It is convenient and feature-rich, with a lot of customization options available. The dashboards and support information are very specific and detailed; you can customize it for convenience. The pre-built information is also very useful and granular, making it easy to identify problems. The alert levels are well-defined and can be customized for each customer. ScienceLogic is also very intuitive and can automatically pick up signals and categorize alerts.

ScienceLogic's alert system is already top-notch, but you can also customize it further to meet the needs of each customer specifically. For example, you can set different alert levels for different SLAs. You can also customize the alert notifications to be sent to the appropriate people. This way, you can ensure all alerts are handled quickly and efficiently. We can also customize the alert levels depending on the nature of the issue. The alert system is designed well and provides very specific load ratings. However, we can customize the alerts per our customer's SL agreements.

Overall, I rate ScienceLogic an eight out of ten.

The Power Packs that are available are amazing. It took me ~10 minutes to fully configure multiple Pure disk arrays. The Cisco UCS power pack was even faster. Literally pointed it at the IP of the UCS and it did all the work.

Dashboards have been great. Management loves seeing all the little green lights. Steep learning curve but very beneficial.

The UI takes a bit to learn but once you get past that it gets the job done. Creating dashboards is also complex but that is because of the sheer number of options.

2+ years

We have not had any issues with the initial install or any updates. Very straight forward. No curve balls. Configuring firewalls will take much longer than settings up ScienceLogic.

Our server is overloaded but still works great. We are planning on adding more nodes to alleviate this. We were also expecting a large uptick in network resource usage but its amazingly small.

No issues with scalability. We have pushed our server beyond whats recommended and it is still chugging along fine.

10/10. Have never had any bad experiences with the customer service. Prompt responses and they always help out.

11/10!!! The support team is AMAZING! I cannot stress this enough. Every call the support team goes above and beyond troubleshooting.

Nagios. We switched because it is less effort to configure new devices in ScienceLogic. The power packs are really what sets ScienceLogic apart from other solutions.

Very simple to roll out. Have not had any issues with initial installs or any updates. The hardest part for us was configuring SNMP across hundreds of Unix servers which took some scripting.

In house install. No issues on the roll out. Fairly standard set up. Nothing too complicated. Updates are as simple as uploading the file to the Science Logic server and hitting go.

We have not done any official ROI for ScienceLogic. We do feel its 100% worth it. Management loves seeing the dashboards up and the alerting has been amazing.

Costs more than Nagios but has way more features and is 100% worth the price. The power packs make such a big difference.

We were using Nagios before and switched to ScienceLogic. I don't recall the other products we reviewed prior. ScienceLogic does everything we need it to.

I cannot stress how great the Power Packs are. The Pure Disk and Cisco UCS packs are out of this world. There haven't been many things we have not found integration for.

ScienceLogic is multi-tenant from the ground up, starting at the code level. With many other tools, you have to trick them into behaving in a multi-tenant fashion.

It gives us the ability to monitor everything from Windows and Linux servers to physical and virtual servers, SANs, network equipment, and firewalls.

Built-in event correlation and analysis intelligently suppresses expected and known events, while escalating alerts for urgent events.

The built-in runbook automation has helped drive greater efficiency.

The ability to quickly build our own monitoring templates for non-traditional equipment and network interface support.

It’s a platform which we’re able to integrate with. It's very flexible.

We now have intelligent alerting to distinguish between critical and normal notifications. The monitoring can scale as we grow.

Improved efficiency by using built-in runbook automation.

Extended monitoring coverage to non-traditional equipment.

We were able to reduce the number of environmental related tickets going to our helpdesk, by over 40%

We’re a growing cloud services provider, and set out to build a framework that would provide the scalability we needed to support future growth. ScienceLogic provides scalability beyond our current needs.

We were using a number of different tools to monitor our infrastructure and a large amount of time was spent separating urgent alerts from notifications. We needed to consolidate tools. We found that we could consolidate nine of our tools to their one monitoring platform.

In the end, the level of coverage, ability to scale, and built-in multi-tenancy gave ScienceLogic’s platform the edge in our comparative analysis.

We are using ScienceLogic primarily for monitoring our infrastructure, a few specific services like Citrix, and a few websites and their publication. We have private cloud deployments as well as on-premises deployments.

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.

It doesn't have the complete application-level topology. It could have service topology and business service monitoring. 

I would like to see how business service monitoring will function with agent-based installation, and how flexible and business-oriented it is for service modeling and service infrastructure. I have a lot of experience in using business service monitoring, service topology, and service hierarchy functionalities in similar products from BMC and Micro Focus (OpenView), and I want to see how these functionalities will look like in ScienceLogic.

We have been using ScienceLogic in our company for four to five years. 

It is stable. 

Scalability looks fine, but we didn't have to extend it so far. We haven't looked at our possibilities regarding scalability.

We have opened tickets, and their technical support has always resolved them successfully.

The initial setup was straightforward.

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.

I would rate ScienceLogic a ten out of ten. It is a pretty good and well-done product.

There are a large number of very valuable features within ScienceLogic, the most impressive feature is the event management capabilities. With the ability to create custom events administrators can dial in monitoring and really customize events for specific devices or applications that help ensure you are on top of issues and stabilizing your environment.

ScienceLogic has helped our organization in numerous ways, these include capacity planning in our network, virtual environments and applications. Along with the ability to view the health of applications which have instances located around the globe. ScienceLogic allows us to test connectivity between locations and structure the product to fit our needs.

In many different areas of the product there are terminology inconsistencies, these inconsistencies are within the product and also within the IT world, these are definite area’s that need improvement; however with a little use they become second nature.

I have been utilizing this product for about two years, monitoring over 600,000 interfaces within our infrastructure and we have created over 250 IT services which reflect application or groups of devices which have relations.

We encountered quite a few issues with our deployment, my team and I knew nothing about ScienceLogic and we were also a brand new group to our company so we knew nothing about the environment we were being asked to monitor. With all of that ScienceLogic staff were exceptional walking us through all of our questions and concerns and failures when setting up our Instance.

We have had a few issues with Stability, I think the product itself it very stable and the power it provides administrators can cause instability. Once of the features we find very beneficial is IT services, which are extremely powerful, however if you set them up incorrectly you can overwhelm the database.

Yes, however our issues were due to not understanding the size of our environment and the group that originally sized the product was providing bad information. As we have increased the amount of devices and the range of those devices we have run in to scaling issues which will most likely cause us to stand up a brand new instance of ScienceLogic to meet our needs. This is not a solution we are excited about but it is a solution none the less

The level of customer service we have received from all of the ScienceLogic team has been exceptional. We continue to stay in contact with our Sales executive, and when we have issues with the product Tech support follows up regularly after closing out tickets to ensure our issues have not reoccurred and our customer advocate representative know what is going on with our system when we call them, they know our history and our roadmap.

ScienceLogic Technical Support has always provided a solution and in one instance a Tech support person stayed on a support call with me and my team over the entire weekend to help us sort out issues that we ourselves created. Technical support knows the product very well and they always go the extra mile to ensure success.

Previously multiple event management systems were in use; however due to 4 different monitoring tools being utilized we were unable to integrate the entire set into one screen. ScienceLogic had the ability to perform the work of many of these tools and was able to integrate with the tools it could not replace.

Our deployment was straightforward, however we had gone through ScienceLogic’s professional training prior to deployment allowing my team to understand the product prior to deployment. I believe it would have seemed much more complex without the training that we had been given.

We utilized ScienceLogic deployment team, they walked us through what we needed setup on our network to allow the product to function and also walked us through the setup. of each server we deployed. There were complex portions and easier portions, the Professional Services tech was easily able to perform all steps of the installation.

I am unable to provide numbers; however after deploying ScienceLogic in our infrastructure and configured IT services around our critical applications we have experienced a considerable drop in major incidents which impact our customers. The reduction improves our company’s image and also allows for more time to be spent enabling resiliency and less time dealing with outages.

I am not able to comment on licensing, we purchase licensees outright and I am unfamiliar with the other subscription models.

I was not part of the team which evaluated tools to monitor.

IT services are an extremely powerful tool that is underutilized and very little time is spent in any of your training classes going over IT services. We have been able to collect data and report on data that no other tool I have found can report on without a massive amount of work. I also believe your staff needs to be trained to a higher degree on IT services. Monitoring and event management is simple, you provide customers the ability to relate the data and aggregate the data collected. During symposiums customers don’t seem to know the power they have in front of them if they learn the IT services. IF I were in charge of ScienceLogic I would find a way to promote and Sell IT services. The use cases are endless.

The most valuable features of any kind of monitoring system go to its core functionality. I have to know when my customers are down, I have to be able to report back to them on SLAs, I need to be able to also report back to them on capacity. It's no longer just a question of being up or down but how up or down something is in terms of its available capacity and our ability to react to that in a timely manner.

HOSTING's vision of the unified cloud is one in which customers don't have to tightly couple the services that they want from us with a platform that we choose for them. We want the customers to have the ability to deploy their applications across whatever platform they want, be that AWS, or our VMware platform, our Hyper-V platform. We want to be able to provide them consistent experiences across all of those. Then the integration points that ScienceLogic offers, which each of those key external and internal partners are absolutely critical to us.

The two main benefits are, one, integration with their API in our customer portal has allowed us to create some really interesting visuals. It's allowed us to create some really engaging capacity monitoring interfaces. The other side, too, is they're dashboard-ing and reporting, which through Single Sign-on, we've been able to integrate directly into our portal, so we can expose their dashboard-ing capabilities directly to our customers. The job of an MSP these days has really changed from just being a hoster to really being an aggregator and a trusted advisor. In the insights that their platform allows us to deliver really enables to do that.

Things that are key for me are really good turnkey integration with external platforms. I'm seeing a lot of interest in lately from our customers is synthetic transaction monitoring. Introducing that into their continuous monitoring practice, so seeing them integrate with folks like Ghost Inspector or AlertSite that do synthetic transaction monitoring, as a service, as a platform, and being able to ingest data from their APIs the same way they do with AWS and other platforms would really be key in giving a true 360 view of a customer's application health.

EM7 is a very, very stable platform. Mileage always varies when you're a service provider. You know that whatever technology you pick for any given solution is going to be, you're going to be pushing. The ScienceLogic team has been phenomenal in working with us to allows the system to scale to exactly what we need.

Scalability is key. One of the biggest challenges that you have with monitoring systems is just simply dealing with what I call the signal-to-noise ratio. There is a tremendous amount of data coming in and the system needs to be able not only to scale to address the full install base that we need it to, but it also needs to be able to ingest all of that data and bubble it up to our monitoring teams in a way that is understandable and actionable so that we are really able, as I said, to separate the signal from the noise. Their platform really enables us to do that.

The support's been fantastic. What I really like with working with a company that has a technical founder is that it really is a company that really cares about making great technology. That's not necessarily the case for what we've seen from past monitoring vendors, so it's been really refreshing working with the ScienceLogic team. It has a great technical team and also a great technical vision.

We knew the best way that you always know something because your customers are saying to you. My boss says to me a lot, "Our customers are the ones that should be pushing us. Our customers should always be pushing us to be better." That was in a sense that's exactly where we were. We were in a situation where our ability to integrate new features into our monitoring platform was taking way too long and was way too cumbersome. Our ability to keep that system current at a current patch level with a vendor was unbelievably complicated. Realistically speaking, we had a problem that we couldn't even deliver the baseline of services, let alone innovate. You hear that from your customers. After you've heard it from two or three really big customers, you know I've got to dos something about it.

It was heavily architecturally skewed because we understand monitoring systems. I know a lot about the architecture behind the way good monitoring systems work. Having seen a lot of bad monitoring systems, I really knew what we were looking for in terms of a distributed architecture in terms of the ability for collectors to dynamically fail and devices to be able to move within a collector group dynamically, in terms of not storing local state data out on collectors and warehousing it internally. Those are some of the key components there. But, outside of that it was your core components. I want to be able to do ICMP, HTTP, TCP, SNMP, those are all my basic stuff. I also want to have turnkey integration with all of the external platforms to really go and enable the unified cloud. That's existing integration with AWS, integration with Azure. More importantly, a vision that aligned with our own. We have a very clear and a very defined vision about the unified cloud and where we're taking that, so it's critical that's to partner with vendors that share that vision.

Nothing we do is straightforward. That's just the nature of operating at the scale that we do. I can tell you that over the course of nine months with a tremendous amount of input from their and support from their team in terms of design and implementation and architecture, we were able to migrate, I want to say, around fifteen thousand devices from a legacy monitoring platform into EM7 without missing a beat. You think about a nine-month project, you consider the amount of time that went into that. Nine months sounds long, but I don't think it is. I thinks that's probably less than it should have taken, and certainly less than it would have taken with other platforms.

There were three vendors that were a part of that evaluation, yes. Testing the system scale is not easy. There's a certain amount of art to that to extrapolating out how a system will behave at scale because we weren't going to roll the entire thing out just to see how it worked. We spent a lot of time doing functional testing and also a lot of time doing integration testing. It's key for us to be able to integrate with any platform that we're building both on the service delivery side, so we have the ability to automatically ingest devices that we provision in whatever cloud automatically into our ScienceLogic environment. Then be able to bubble performance and applicable alert data about those devices up into our customer portal. I would say the key evaluation areas were going to be around the presentation layer, so the ability for us to be able to leverage their dashboard-ing, their reporting capabilities, natively, which we integrated with through a single sign-on, their ability to expose an API that had a parity with their user experience.

It's interesting because whenever you ask somebody, "How's your API?" They always say, "Our API's great." Really the question you want to ask them is, "Does your API have parity with your UI? Is there anything your UI is doing that is special or hidden or doesn't use your API?" If the answer's yes, then you got to dig into that. Basically, what we found is that there is tremendous completeness with their own UI and their API. Realistically, we were able to build out a very, very full and rich experience in our own portal that we could expose up to customers. I would say the other real criteria there was around multi-tendency. A smart person once said, "Nobody builds products for service providers. We figure out how they work and we make them work the way we want to." In fact, it was my old boss that said that.

I would say that of the platforms that we evaluated, ScienceLogic was most built for service providers. They really had a good grasp around multi-tendency, a good grasp around organizational relationships with the monitoring system. We didn't have to force the data model to understand how we wanted it to think, it was well understood. We were very happy with our ability to integrate our customer base into that.

No platform is perfect, and if anybody tells you their platform is perfect, they're probably in sales. Realistically speaking, when you talk about the technology behind a platform, you talk about entering into a partnership with somebody like this to operate at this kind of a scale, it's what I call a five-year decision. It's something that I want to do and then not have to think about for at least the next five years. You don't do that with just technology. There's no one technology that you're going to do, that you're to select that's going to give you that. The package really is the technology and the people that are behind it. The team at ScienceLogic has done a phenomenal job helping us to scale and helping us to tackle any hurdles that we run into.