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it_user194697 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
We were using Nagios but switched to ScienceLogic to centralize our monitoring, graphing, and alerting systems.

What is most valuable?

The best feature is how customizable the platform is. It can be integrated into various systems, processes, and customized to the client's liking.

How has it helped my organization?

The product was able to centralize our monitoring, graphing, and alerting systems (including PagerDuty integration).

What needs improvement?

Usability is important. The interface is nice, but very complex and requires lots of learning involved in managing and navigating the product.

For how long have I used the solution?

I used this solution for over a year, replacing an existing monitoring platform.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Yes - scaling for thousands of servers requires a significant footprint of collectors to handle the load.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

Excellent customer service.

Technical Support:

Excellent technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Nagios - we switched because ScienceLogic is an all in one solution which is able to do more than Nagios.

How was the initial setup?

It was complex - it required their technicians to assist on setting up the system initially.

What about the implementation team?

Through ScienceLogic direct. They were very knowledgeable.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Setup and day-to-day cost is negotiable, but having a lot of devices can be expensive in the long run.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We compared ScienceLogic to Nagios, LogicMon, and Zabbix.

What other advice do I have?

Test the product thoroughly and do a cost analysis to see if the product is suitable long term.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user200604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network & Datacentre Ops Eng at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Has improved our network infrastructure monitoring and reduces any unplanned outages.

What is most valuable?

  1. Registry information for better inventory pull information
  2. Event information to granular level
  3. Adding support/KB notes to events

How has it helped my organization?

Improved network infrastructure monitoring which reduces any unplanned outages.

What needs improvement?

Need to have a better export data/copy to clipboard option to transfer the data to do more analytics on the events/trends/graph.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Error information doesn’t have a good information if something goes wrong while doing a device discovery (I tried this a while back- couldn’t be more specific).

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Never got to know since we have two to three instances running.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

I haven't needed to call them.

Technical Support:

I haven't needed to call them.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Yes, and we switched because it had a heavy GUI and was impossible to suppress certain events.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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DataCenter & Facility Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
Has saved us time. Very efficient in terms of deployment and implementation.

What is most valuable?

Too many to name all of them but some examples are:

  • Dashboard
  • Dynamic Apps
  • Widget builder
  • Reporting
  • Integration
  • Custom threshold
  • Custom event
  • Runbook
  • Automation

How has it helped my organization?

Time. Very efficient in terms of deployment, and implementation.

What needs improvement?

I see room to do better in the network and SNMP trap processing. A major bug was discovered on the asset warranty alarm mapping, I hope the problem has been resolved by now.

For how long have I used the solution?

One and a half years on a global scale.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were times when the backup MySQL data sync had a problem within the probe and the main instance.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Minor, it was related to the sync issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability and performance is excellent. We use it globally.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

They are knowledgeable and very responsive.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used a different solution. This is the best tool ever which allowed us to consolidate from various monitoring solutions such as HPOV, CA and SCOM..

What about the implementation team?

Both in-house and though a vendor team. They are very experienced and able to answer straight from an inquiry when it comes to a technical issue.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, we looked at FireScope unify.

What other advice do I have?

It has a speedy deployment and an impressive dashboard.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user200574 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Managed Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
MSP
Much better than the SMB product we were previously using.

What is most valuable?

Device monitoring.

How has it helped my organization?

It has given us comprehensive monitoring across all platforms. Better to have a best of breed tool than an SMB product.

What needs improvement?

Reporting needs to be improved. It was sold as a tool we could use for out clients and it was a complete failure. Also, built in applications should be more to best proactive monitors.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Yes.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Yes.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

High.

Technical Support:

5/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Yes, and we switched because we were using an SMB tool that could not scale to larger clients or monitor a broad enough scope of devices.

How was the initial setup?

Simple.

What about the implementation team?

In-house.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Yes, we looked at continuing with our previous tool, Kaseya and a couple of other multi-tenant tools.

What other advice do I have?

Implement with a consulting group that knows the product. Don't expect the talent at ScienceLogic to help with process. The infrastructure you place this product on makes a huge difference.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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