It was deployed by the IT Infrastructure department and is now being expanded to application support teams and other specialized groups. We have deployed it extensively to monitor physical and virtual servers, critical workstations, production services, all network equipment, and some security appliances so far. We are now implementing it to monitor application servers and services, databases, and webservices for uptime and performance. I've also been able to leverage it to give me thorough visibility into my SDWAN performance.
We are largely on-prem but dispersed across 20+ corporate sites and 3 different major industries. We have a blend of several manufacturers: Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto, Aurba, Arista, Ubiquiti, APC, Eaton, VMWare, Windows Server, SQL, Oracle, Opera, InfoGenesis, RTP, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and many others. So far we are monitoring about 1200 devices and plan to add several hundred more in the next 6 months. Our locations are spread mostly across the intermountain west but also reach toward the midwest.
LogicMonitor's design was the easiest to implement and use that I have found so far. Spinning up the main environment in the cloud was super easy and the deployment of collectors was fast. Maintaining the collectors and the database is made very simple by LM's intuitive interface and pre-configured suite of features. On-prem tools seem to cause us more headaches than they are worth meaning we don't have the time to get all their value. LogicMonitor is allowing us to grow and refine this deployment as we have time all while it keeps running at the level where we left off.
We are working to replace a few different monitoring and alerting tools to save us OpEx and time. We are a lean IT shop so every hour spent keeping tools up and running and talking to each other keeps us from actually making progress toward and larger goals. LogicMonitor has allowed us to meet our baseline needs quickly which makes it easy to then start leveraging the advanced features like automation.
No. We went in knowing that the tool had to make our lives easier almost immediately, made that clear to the LogicMonitor team, and asked them to do the bulk of the implementation work (which wasn't much anyway). That is the reality of how our team operates and if the tool couldn't meet those needs I wouldn't want it.
I would say that LogicMonitor proactively provides exceptional support by providing a high-quality product from the start and proactively resolving issues and adding features such that by the time I might have an issue it has already been addressed for me. I have required less support from LogicMonitor than for any other tool that I operate regularly. When I do need to contact support they are prompt and helpful.