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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LogicMonitor

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. It provides IT and business teams operational visibility and predictability across their technologies and applications.N/A

    New Relic

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANew Relic is a SaaS-based web and mobile application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. They provide code-level diagnostics for dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments and real time monitoring.

    $0

    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks

    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer is a network monitoring tool within the broader SolarWinds ecosystem. It includes core traffic monitoring features, as well as customizable traffic reports and alerts.N/A
    Pricing
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Website Monitoring
    Contact sales team
    Free (Forever)
    $0
    No credit card required; 100 GB free ingest per month, 1 free full user + unlimited basic users, 8 days retention, 100 Synthetics Checks
    Telemetry Data Platform
    $0.25
    per month per extra GB data ingest (after first free 100GB per month)
    Incident Intelligence
    $0.50
    per month per event (after first 1000 free events per month)
    Standard
    $99
    per month per full user (after first free full user - unlimited free basic users)
    Pro
    Contact sales team
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsOur platform is broken down into Pro and Enterprise Pricing. Pro includes monitoring for all of your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure. Our Enterprise package includes all of this, plus our AIOps and Machine Learning functionality that provides dynamic thresholds, root cause analysis, anomaly detection and more! LogicMonitor only charges by the device. What is considered a device? A device is anything with an IP address that you want to monitor, including a physical device or a cloud resource. This means multiple data sources under the same IP address can be monitored for the same price. Unlike some monitoring platforms. we don’t charge per node, interface, or metric.——
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    Community Pulse
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Considered Multiple Products
    LogicMonitor
    Chose LogicMonitor
    Some teams in our company are also using New Relic, and they are pretty satisfied with it. However, I also used it for some time, and I did not find it as flexible as LogicMonitor for our needs. So, yes, I suggested that management remove New Relic, as we have a superior tool …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    Basically, we did not have any idea about it and how to choose, but we asked one of our former bosses, as they were very experienced with it, so they helped us by clarifying a few things between New Relic and LogicMonitor, as they told us that if you are looking for an …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    I was one of the members who were looking for a better application for our system security, and we tried Datadog and New Relic. Those software were very good for normal usage. New Relic was working fine until we started facing problems if any sudden system increase as it was …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    After switching from Solarwinds to LogicMonitor we would never go back. The higher price for LogicMonitor is well worth all the areas that this platform excels when compared to Solarwinds. The support is great, they are available directly through the web portal in a chat and I …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    For the difference in cost, LogicMonitor was the clear choice due to the ease of use, reporting capabilities, and licensing options.
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    One of our main objectives while choosing a next gen monitoring platform was scalability in that regard we were not interested in legacy on prem solution and SAAS model was our preferred solution which supports rapid scalability when needed. Another important objective was to …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    LogicMonitor is faster and easier to use than the other guys. I am able to effectively navigate the UI to schedule downtime, check past alerts, look at graphs and determine trends in the data. The reporting tool that comes with LogicMonitor is perfect for running metric …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    I loved SolarWinds and we actually still use some of their products but it is a very piecemeal solution and LogicMonitor had better options out of the box and seemed easier to use. It also had much better options for monitoring our network than WhatsUp. Though to be fair it …
    Incentivized
    Chose LogicMonitor
    Most vendors are experts in one area (APM, ITIM, Logs, Network, Cloud). LogicMonitor provides strong monitoring and alerting functionality in all areas. They are also leaders in innovation for the newest services we’re using (Kubernetes, Fargate, Fortigate, Cohesity). Most of …
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    New Relic
    Chose New Relic
    New Relic has a native integration with the IaaS service that the company utilizes which made it very easy to set up, integrate, and it also has consolidated billing with that IaaS service which is a big plus for the organization. After evaluating, I also thought it had the …
    Incentivized
    Chose New Relic
    We selected New Relic since it was very dynamic and versatile to use. It works well in all aspects of monitoring, and observability and would allow having a focus on collaboration with different repeatable processes. Also, New Relic has a good focus on working well with CLI, …
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Our previous product did not offer traffic flow, bandwidth information or the ability to give us device information. With SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer we can monitor traffic coming in to our network and traffic going out of our network. This has allowed for greater …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    If you want to have a total view of your network and enterprise, it's a challenge to go with only a point solution. We've taken an approach that, while it feels sub-optimal in some ways, leverages multiple monitoring products to see the entire enterprise. Part of the issue …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    95%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of LogicMonitor and New Relic and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Feature
    LogicMonitor
    7.1
    2 Ratings
    18% below category average
    New Relic
    -
    Ratings
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring7.12 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (182 ratings)
    7.3
    (148 ratings)
    9.0
    (62 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (31 ratings)
    6.7
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (110 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LogicMonitorNew RelicSolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LogicMonitor
    For environments that mostly use VMs and baremetal devices, LogicMonitor is a fantastic choice. It lends itself especially well to situations where you want individual teams to be able to manage the monitoring and observability of their own domains, and if you take the time to customize it to your environment in the frontend, you can get to the point where your LogicMonitor platform administrators are very rarely needed.
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    New Relic
    New Relic its an excellent tool for monitoring services used on the SAAS universe, like web servers, relational and nosql dbms, reverse proxies, text databases, etc. Its also a powerful tool to monitor resource usage on said servers. However, its not well fitted to monitor custom services - if you need to generate alerts based on logs or database information, for example
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    SolarWinds
    We use and depend on it for status state of our network gear, switches and routers. It does an excellent job of getting you the details you need to confirm all devices and products are working at the level needed. At times, it does tend to flag network switch ports and/or switches themselves as exceeding their rated capacity when frequently it was a quick blip of high traffic due to downloads, or uploads causing the max'ing of the device. Again, you can adjust the settings but then you adjust it too high and miss real activity. It can become nuisance alerting when you tend to then ignore
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    Pros
    LogicMonitor
    • It shows us system issues right away so we can fix them fast.
    • It finds new devices on its own, so we do not miss anything.
    • It alerts us only when something really unusual happens.
    • Its dashboards make it easy for everyone to see system health.
    • It helps us see trends so we are ready for busy times.
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    New Relic
    • It gives us insights of applications, infrastructure, clouds very well.
    • The alerting system in New Relic helps us to easily identify the root cause which reduces the MTTR.
    • It has new features related to AI which helps to troubleshoot any problem in a very short time it gives future predictions also.
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    SolarWinds
    • The level of customization possible with Network Bandwidth Analyzer is very valuable. Rather than being stuck with a "one-size-fits-all" presentation, an administrator can easily create customized views, reports, and alerts so that users can have a more tailored view of the data provided by Network Bandwidth Analyzer. This has the effect of making the tool more attractive to the end user.
    • The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer piece of Network Bandwidth Analyzer provides the details on bandwidth usage on the network. More than knowing how much bandwidth is being used, one is provided with detailed information on how that bandwidth is being used. This provides invaluable information for capacity planning and even certain forensic tasks faced by the network engineer.
    • The ability to produce network maps provides an easy way to create an attractive and functional NOC/SOC view of the entire network. Both technician and the occasional passerby can quickly determine if there are issues to be addressed. The ability to customize a map with background images and custom icons and stencils can make these maps really pop.
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    Cons
    LogicMonitor
    • Segmentation at an instance level not just the resource when clients are sharing the same device but shouldn't see each other's relevant data
    • ARM CPU support for collectors to allow for a lighter weight appliance deployment
    • WMI collection with a Linux collector so a windows collector would not be needed or a virtual appliance template that can be used to deploy collectors
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    New Relic
    • And while powerful, building tailored dashboards with organ-specific metrics (such as energy load variance across regions) can be difficult to navigate. The UI isn't as drag-and-drop easy, and query-based widgets typically involve some trial and error for non-devs.
    • Alerts may be hypersensitive or over general. I We often get a spam of non-critical alerts while doing load testing, all overhauling to me alone and making it difficult to identify actual issues especially in energy systems where spikes are very common.
    • With our expanding fleet of Iot devices, the per-host pricing model is becoming expensive, quickly. More detailed billing based on microservices, or that works at sensor level, would make it more adaptable for energy platforms.
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    SolarWinds
    • The ability to intuitively and quickly serve up specified information up to a dashboard for general “public” consumption, that cycles through several pages of information.
    • The ability to intuitively set up alerting on bandwidth levels, instead of having to dig through all types of alerts available to find the one needed.
    • Provide a pricing model based on different support levels: if I want only available update installations, don’t make me pay the same amount as those wanting full support.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    LogicMonitor
    This product has met virtually all of our needs. It was easy to implement and has been simple to support. Customization has been intuitive with many options available. They keep adding features and expanding available options. The future of LogicMonitor looks even better than it is today which is very promising. The management and support teams at LogicMonitor are always helpful
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    New Relic
    The only issue that we have had with New Relic is that the price might be a little expensive for smaller companies. The amount of data you store in New Relic impacts the cost, and can get away from you if you don't work closely with the vendor. Overall though the application is top notch.
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    SolarWinds
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    Usability
    LogicMonitor
    Set up is super easy. Just stand up a small Linux or Windows server to act as a collector. There are no agents to install on monitored devices and all you need is SNMP or WMI access. When creating dashboards, all you have to do is find the widget on the device you want to show up and choose the menu option to add it.
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    New Relic
    I have given this much rating as I am used New Relic in different sectors and for different use cases like its K8s monitoring, infra monitoring, full stack monitoring as compare to other tools New Relic gives data in a formatted and connected way, and also it is giving us value for money. It also launches new features day by day which helps users to track the issue very quickly. It also supports OTel integrations which is the latest trend of observability tools. thats why I had given this much rating to New Relic.
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    SolarWinds
    As far as rating for usability is concerned I would give 10/10 as NTA is very easy to use. All you need to do is install that module and ask network Team to configure the Netflow towards Server IP. [The] rest is pre-configured and reports are pre-built. Moment you receive the flows from Network all you will have is information about traffic.
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    Reliability and Availability
    LogicMonitor
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    New Relic
    Never observed an outage
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    SolarWinds
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    Performance
    LogicMonitor
    No answers on this topic
    New Relic
    there are times where browser cache will cause issues that require you to clear your browser before continuing.
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    SolarWinds
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    Support Rating
    LogicMonitor
    The sales team support we received was top notch. They worked hand in hand to make sure the product met all expectations. So far we have not really had to work with support that much; we have worked with setup team after purchase to deploy product fully. No issues so far and we are four weeks in.
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    New Relic
    The support team has been really helpful and resolved most of the issues on time. However, for a couple of issues, several follow-ups were needed to elicit a reasonable response. The issue was deeply technical and could have been investigated only by their Architects, and bringing them into the ticket took longer than needed
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    SolarWinds
    I know we could probably pay for it, but it would be nice if we could get to a tier 2 technician faster. Spending a couple of hours on the phone with the level 1 technician, when we have already tried the troubleshooting they are walking us through, is just a waste of time.
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    In-Person Training
    LogicMonitor
    Add good training
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    New Relic
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    LogicMonitor
    The training is good but room to improve
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    New Relic
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    SolarWinds
    The training offered by SolarWinds is some of the best out there. They have several different videos that go into great detail from initial setup to advanced configurations. In addition to the view at your own pace video, they also have live training for customers that focus on a single product and you can ask questions with the folks who develop the software. I have had good success with their live sessions and getting questions answered.
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    Implementation Rating
    LogicMonitor
    The implementation experience was awesome for me, as the LogicMonitor team was really helpful to us. They installed everything on our primary server and provided clear, intelligible explanations. They even trained our non-tech team on it as well. Therefore, my team and I had a very simple and pleasurable implementation experience.
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    New Relic
    It's better to start by implementing New Relic in one project and test everything. Try to follow best recommended practices and read all the official documentation. Everything seems well tested. Then, start by installing agents to the rest of your projects and keep a close look to all logs and metrics New Relic gives you.
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    LogicMonitor
    Our business used the trial period they provided on one of our systems and conducted sessions with all of this software. Our team tested all of these software options before deciding on LogicMonitor, as our business is expanding daily and we needed a system that could accommodate our growing workforce and automatically add systems to our network, which LogicMonitor alone provided.
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    New Relic
    Data Dog has solutions that look more attractive, but not at their price point. We have also tried to build a solution straight from the Cloud, where our business is built, but some things are too hard to replicate. This shows that New Relic is useful and helps our efficiency.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer compared to Wireshark and PRTG Network Monitor beats it by just the simple interface. Though all are manual setup, NTA takes it a step further with graphs and reports that analyze the data for you. In comparing to Extrahop from a bandwidth comparison, Extrahop wins but Extrahop is a lot more than just a bandwidth monitoring and cost.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    LogicMonitor
    Pricing seems to be getting more and more aggressive, I worry that it's going to turn into ServiceNow or SAP and everything minor feature will be an extreme cost that prices out us and our customers
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    New Relic
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    SolarWinds
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    Scalability
    LogicMonitor
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    New Relic
    Agent deployment is easily integrated into our workflow. Adding the agent to new servers is quick and painless
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    SolarWinds
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    Professional Services
    LogicMonitor
    Haven't really used it but our initial onboarding PS was disappointing. Felt like we were being told what we needed to cover as opposed to what we wanted to cover. In addition, we were pushed into using the PS in tight time frames and we were not ready to do so.
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    New Relic
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    SolarWinds
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    Return on Investment
    LogicMonitor
    • We Eliminated an on-prem monitoring tool which was in excess of 25 servers
    • A decrease in time to response from our Network Operations Center resulted in a more consistent client experience
    • Dynamic alert thresholds helped reduce alerting by about 10 to 15% as soon as we turned it on for volatile metrics like CPU and memory
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    New Relic
    • We were able to quickly identify our most time consuming APIs. In some cases we were able to bring down times for some apis from 4s to 200ms.
    • We were able to identify our slowest database queries and optimize them for quicker response times.
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    SolarWinds
    • Be prepared to answer lots of questions. When people see the data in NTA they are going to want to know why App A is talking to App B. Be ready to explain!
    • Hand the keys to the NTA kingdom to the network team. They will thank you. Everyone wants to have friends on the network team, right?
    • Be prepared to invest in some significant compute and storage performance to keep up with your NTA monitoring
    • Running the latest firmware for your network gear is (often) required to take advantage of all the flow-monitoring. You upgrade regularly, right??
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    ScreenShots

    LogicMonitor Screenshots

    Screenshot of AIOps features for enterprises using technology or hybrid environments with cloud and container resources. LogicMonitor can be used to monitor and improve the performance of complex enterprise networks with dynamic thresholds, topology mapping, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis.Screenshot of LM Envision's comprehensive monitoring and observability capabilities across the IT infrastructure, that help to identify alerts for the most important systems while ensuring the user experience is uninterrupted across the globe.Screenshot of Monitoring that ensures servers and the applications running on top of them are highly available. Helps resolve issues and optimize resource consumption for the server infrastructure.Screenshot of LogicMonitor remote workforce monitoring, which ensures that employees are connected to the systems that keep them productive and provide proactive insight into dispersed systems and third-party outages.Screenshot of Unified cloud monitoring across a hybrid multi-cloud ecosystem.Screenshot of LM Logs delivering log analysis at enterprise scale.