Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. ScienceLogic SL1

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Manager, formerly from CA Technologies, is a unified tool for systems monitoring and analytics. It offers multiple deployment options for IT teams and MSPs .N/A
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.
$7.50
per month per node
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsScienceLogic SL1 offers four tiers: SL1 Advanced – Application Health, Automated Troubleshooting and Remediation Workflows SL1 Base – Infrastructure Monitoring, Topology & Event Correlation SL1 Premium – AI/ML-driven Analytics, Low-Code Automated Workflow Authoring SL1 Standard – Infrastructure Monitoring – with Agents, Business Services, Incident Automation, CMDB Synchronization, Behavioral Correlation To get pricing for each tier, please contact the vendor.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management gives you an extremely easy implementation facility whether it is the core application, reporting hubs, or agents. Apart from that, it has extremely good customer support. The documentation with respect to each component is really …
ScienceLogic SL1
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
SL1 is able to offer way more enhanced monitoring than UIM. We have used UIM for quite a long time and the benefits offered by SL1 are much higher.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
SL1 was selected by our solution architects and I was not involved during the selection process. But during implementation and configuration, I realized that the tool is easy to use because of its discovery feature. Also, it is flexible in use and we are able to create our own …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Compared to the above tools, I find ScienceLogic SL1 is more efficient (not cost-wise) in monitoring standards, and I feel very comfortable handling the day-to-day activities. Based on features, it can be compared with LogicMonitor but monitoring checkpoints alignment is a bit …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
We liked the roadmap and growth that ScienceLogic SL1 had aligned. Functions and features from our previous product were pretty well aligned, but the cost was a huge impact on decision.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic met our critical requirements best in terms of replacing the (alerting and ticketing) solution central to our project.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
CA Unified Infrastructure Management is a much more complicated product than ScienceLogic. It requires a dedicated tools team to maintain and administer it. Most implementations of ScienceLogic would only require one or two really knowledgeable people. UIM is more easily …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Hybrid monitoring, flexible on-premise and SAAS options. A single license for end to end monitoring. The ease of deployment.
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Features
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Comparison of AIOps Features features of Product A and Product B
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
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Ratings
ScienceLogic SL1
6.9
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Monitoring and Alerting00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Performance Analytics00 Ratings5.22 Ratings
Incident Management00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Service Desk Integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Root Cause Analysis00 Ratings4.62 Ratings
Capacity Planning Tool00 Ratings7.42 Ratings
Configuration and Change Management00 Ratings4.62 Ratings
Automated Remediation00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
Collaboration and Communication00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Threat Intelligence00 Ratings4.62 Ratings
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User Ratings
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.5
(207 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
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9.9
(13 ratings)
Performance
-
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8.0
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.5
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(78 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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7.8
(14 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
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8.5
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
Well Suited: - Multiple units (you may split Nimsoft per Groups, companies, etc.) - When your Business Teams NEED Dashboards (they'll love it after they learn how to use, for example, if they discover that the may even run SQL queries together with monitor the webpage of the application, and display business data) Less appropriate: - If you are beginning to monitor your environment (because you need to know your environment at least a little bit to check if the entire set of monitoring Nimsoft plugins will really help you or you will only use it to ping your application) - If you don't have at least one (i do recommend 2 or 3 after some short time) people dedicated to deploy and fine-tune the monitoring. The tool is really good, but if you don't have anyone working on it, you will notice that you're spending money in an elephant to kill an ant or worst, that you passed the entire year, and still have the same problems of the last year, cause no one put the hands enough time in the tool. I saw this happening during the first year when I was the only one working with the tool and still supporting the entire team.
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ScienceLogic
Appropriate if you are setting up a monitoring suite in new Infrastructure Environment. Definitely NOT suited for Migration Projects. ScienceLogic SL1 cannot cater to a lot of monitoring requirements which already would have been configured in old monitoring suite. Plus, limited support for customizations and having to go to "Feature Requests" route makes in extremely complicated.
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Pros
Broadcom
  • Ease of management
  • Unified platform
  • Depth of infrastructure management. Has numerous probes which can help you monitor every aspect of your environment.
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ScienceLogic
  • Best overall coverage of montioring different technologies.
  • Easy to use in any environment
  • Customizable being able to generate your own reports, dashboards, DA's, RBA's, etc.
  • Have very good out of the box integrations with other monitoring solutions such as ServiceNow
  • Always improving and regularly releasing new versions and upgrades to the system/DA's.
  • Interactive community
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Cons
Broadcom
  • I'd like to see improvements in inventory management. Currently node management isn't as efficient as I'd like.
  • I also see a big opportunity to offer greater customization in the Detail Tab. I'd like the ability to pick and chose which metrics are displayed by default in the Detail Tab snapshot.
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ScienceLogic
  • More freedom to create custom dashboards as on the previous versions we could do much more
  • The Performance TAB windows is too small and cannot be resized or maximized when looking at reports for "Overview", "File System" and any of those items.
  • There are not enough widgets to create stunning dashboard in AP2
  • The reporting feauture is a very untouched area.
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Likelihood to Renew
Broadcom
Meets our business requirements
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ScienceLogic
We migrated away from our 20-year-old homegrown solution and have no back-tracking capability. ScienceLogic is demonstrating new capabilities that we would not have been able to do on our own using our legacy system.
We understand the capabilities of competitors based on our bake-off selection where ScienceLogic won on capabilities and future near-term potential (expandability, platform growth). We know that those competitors are not really close to where we have been able to push ScienceLogic (as a partner).
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Usability
Broadcom
Easy to configure and use.
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ScienceLogic
We use ScienceLogic SL1 in our organization to serve effective monitoring solutions to our external customers. Our customers depend upon us for critical events/alerts related to their IT infrastructure gears and using SL1, we're able to provide them with a proactive monitoring solution that resolves an issue before an impact is noticed by the customer. There are very few monitoring solutions that can cater to a variety of Cloud platforms like Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) and private cloud simultaneously and SL1 addresses this business problem very well
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Reliability and Availability
Broadcom
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ScienceLogic
Science Logic SL1 provides the option of Distributed deployment where multiple instances of each appliance can be deployed to manage the load and availability. SL1 provides a High Availability feature for Database Servers and Data Collection. If one of the Data Collectors in the collector group fails, it will automatically redistribute the devices from the failed Data Collector among the other Data Collectors in the Collector Group. The high availability feature for the Database server ensures that SL1 performs failover automatically to another server without causing the outage to the application.
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Performance
Broadcom
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ScienceLogic
The performance is entirely dependent on the complexity of the environment/network being used to host the platform. Outside of those factors, the platform runs very efficiently and quickly out of the box. We have integrations with other platforms and neither seem to take a hit from our moderate API usage. Any issues with performance would be experienced by choices made in infrastructure or complexity of things built by the customer to display in the GUI (overly complicated and cluttered dashboards for example)
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Support Rating
Broadcom
Exceed Expectations.
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ScienceLogic
So far, it's good as part of my overall experience, except for a couple of use cases. The support team is well knowledgeable, has technical sound, and is efficient. When support escalates to engineering, the issue gets stuck and takes months to resolve.
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In-Person Training
Broadcom
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ScienceLogic
When I joined our company, I did not know about the in person training at firts. Logging onto the SL University, I realised that there were different sessions being held at different times throughout the year. The training itself was good, but being in a different time zone, made it difficult to attend, but the sessions that I attended was great!
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Online Training
Broadcom
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ScienceLogic
There are a lot of educational materials and courses on the SL1 training site (Litmos university). However the recording quality is sometimes not very good - screen resolution is low. There is a lack of professional rather than user-oriented documents and there are mistakes in documentation and education is not well structured.
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Implementation Rating
Broadcom
Plan it out based on your requirements.
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ScienceLogic
Love to use Science logic tool as our first monitoring tool to provide services to the customer. Auto restart feature in Sl1 will allow us to get event when those crucial services has not started after server reboots and also minimize the P1's that we have as a result of that.
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc
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ScienceLogic
Science logic SL1 is so user friendly and it's really easy to navigate between function. I would recommend Sciene logic SL1 to all of them who are looking for really useful monitoring tool and expecting easy way of managing it.
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Scalability
Broadcom
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ScienceLogic
Our deployment model is vastly different from product expectations. Our global / internal monitoring foot print is 8 production stacks in dual data centers with 50% collection capacity allocated to each data center with minimal numbers of collection groups. General Collection is our default collection group. Special Collection is for monitoring our ASA and other hardware that cannot be polled by a large number of IP addresses, so this collection group is usually 2 collectors). Because most of our stacks are in different physical data centers, we cannot use the provided HA solution. We have to use the DR solution (DRBD + CNAMEs). We routinely test power in our data centers (yearly). Because we have to use DR, we have a hand-touch to flip nodes and change the DNS CNAME half of the times when there is an outage (by design). When the outage is planned, we do this ahead of the outage so that we don't care that the Secondary has dropped away from the Primary. Hopefully, we'll be able to find a way to meet our constraints and improve our resiliency and reduce our hand-touch in future releases. For now, this works for us and our complexity. (I hear that the HA option is sweet. I just can't consume that.)
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Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • Business Units love It - Good for them, but worse for the IT Team until we share the responsibility of the dashboards.
  • If no one put their hands on it, it will take some time to give results. I'm talking about environments with 400 devices, for example, in something about 6 months to one year, if no one is dedicated, and depending on the consulting company. Some, even certified by CA, was not good. If possible, try to use CA services directly.
  • IT Teams, after they start to notice that the tool really work, will want to monitor everything. Depending on the company, this will be more or less easy to measure, as ROI. And I'm telling this because usually IT teams don't know how to sell them to C-Levels, and the tool, because of the price, is always a motivation to questions like: "What is this tool? Do you really need it? Is there another way to monitor this?"
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ScienceLogic
  • Once a powerpack is developed and configured for a device for one customer, it is easy to deploy the same powerpack on a second customer estate and configure specifically for that customer without having to reinvent the powerpack. This saves time and therefore money.
  • Once the customer estate tuning is complete, the Operations team have come trust the alerts. This is especially true when transient or self-correcting alerts are automatically cleared without ops team involvement, but a record is still available for audit and debugging purposes. This saves time and therefore money.
  • When setup correctly, it provides good visibility into applications, devices and whole customer estates. This saves time and therefore money when issues arise.
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ScreenShots

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