LogicMonitor vs. ScienceLogic SL1

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LogicMonitor
Score 9.0 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
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.8 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.N/A
Pricing
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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.ScienceLogic 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
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
Considered Both Products
LogicMonitor
Chose LogicMonitor
During the evaluation process we looked a number of other solutions, a detailed technically analysis was carried out to map functionlity, deployment and scalabilty across the solutions.

The primary areas that LogicMonitor succeeded are around the simplicity of deployment, …
Chose LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor does config saves and netflow out-of-the-box, while other products we have evaluated did not. That is a huge advantage in my business, as we sell these two things as a service.
Chose LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor is a SaaS based tool and if I talk about SaaS products only then there are very few market players in this area. LogicMonitor is best out of all the other tools in terms of monitoring capability, inclusive of all infra into one single monitoring solution, Out Of …
Chose LogicMonitor
We did a fairly in-depth market analysis of options, evaluated 9 and then went to RFQ against a final 3. They are all sound and comparable choices against our requirements and in fact, because of some of the weaknesses that we found LogicMonitor had around SNMP trap handling, …
Chose LogicMonitor
Their UI was much clunkier, and much harder to maintain than logicmonitor.
Chose LogicMonitor
We found that LogicMonitor was the best solution overall due to it's cost and completeness of solution. Support was also superior
ScienceLogic SL1
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic offers more flexibility in custom development than SolarWinds especially, and edges out LogicMonitor slightly. It also offers support for more technologies than either LogicMonitor or SolarWinds. ScienceLogic has longevity in the monitoring space, notably compared …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1 is a good tool for being a mile wide and two inches deep--it does a majority of things well, but the aforementioned tools are not only more expensive but cater to specific trades. Prognosis is centered around collab--LogicMonitor and Nimsoft being server/cloud, …
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
From a capability perspective they stack up very similar but from a look and feel, ScienceLogic SL1 one is miles behind the curve on all three. We chose SL because we already had elements of the service in place on our infrastructure from our previous MSP so they were a …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Quick deployment, easy administration, customization flexibity, AIOPS capabilities like anomaly detections, Correlations etc.. are good and quick support on tech issues
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 SL1 offered the best combination of deployment flexibility, extensibility, and widespread support.
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
We ran a complete examination on whether ServiceNow or SL1 was more appropriate for our business. We factored in: Existing infrastructure, Implementation cost, license cost, ongoing support costs, and other factors. Major results of this exercise were that we had 10+ years of …
Features
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Comparison of IT Infrastructure Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
LogicMonitor
8.2
1 Ratings
0% above category average
ScienceLogic SL1
-
Ratings
Network visibility8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-system monitoring8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance analysis and forecasting7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards and visualization9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
AIOps Features
Comparison of AIOps Features features of Product A and Product B
LogicMonitor
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Ratings
ScienceLogic SL1
7.0
25 Ratings
10% below category average
Monitoring and Alerting00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
Performance Analytics00 Ratings7.225 Ratings
Incident Management00 Ratings6.725 Ratings
Service Desk Integration00 Ratings6.924 Ratings
Root Cause Analysis00 Ratings7.020 Ratings
Capacity Planning Tool00 Ratings6.621 Ratings
Configuration and Change Management00 Ratings6.922 Ratings
Automated Remediation00 Ratings7.119 Ratings
Collaboration and Communication00 Ratings7.319 Ratings
Threat Intelligence00 Ratings6.818 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(179 ratings)
8.5
(225 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.7
(8 ratings)
8.8
(24 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(29 ratings)
9.8
(15 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.7
(14 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.1
(14 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(109 ratings)
6.0
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.5
(6 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.6
(24 ratings)
7.9
(97 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(15 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
7.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.5
(7 ratings)
User Testimonials
LogicMonitorScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
LogicMonitor
I would recommend LogicMonitor to mid-sized IT teams or MSPs. I thought it was going to be just another monitoring tool, but the more you work with it, the more you realize how solid it actually is; now it's a full-on platform. I've had a really good experience with Logic Monitor. It's powerful, a little messy in Parts. But once it's running smoothly, it's kind of a beast, definitely made my life easier.
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ScienceLogic
For Windows, the issue is in higher resource consumption related to WinRM monitoring, which provides better options then the SNMP monitoring, which on the other hand is less resource intensive. The problem is also with support for OS with other than English language.
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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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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
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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ScienceLogic
  • Dashboards are quite old and are of Iron age. Need to have AP2 dashboards only instead of AP1 and consistent new design across all functionalities.
  • Reporting is not improved since Y2020 and need to revamp completely. Need to integrate Dashboards and Reporting. PowerBI Like functionality to be given OOTB. Reports should be extracted in Excel, PDF, HTML and should be heavily automated.
  • Create and Open APIs for basic and advanced monitoring data extraction.
  • Topology based Event Correlation and Suppression should be improved drastically. Need to identify critical network interfaces based on Topology and monitor them. Basic customization of Dynamic App and/or Powerpack to exclude/include certain metrics/events to be permitted OOTB instead of customizations.
  • Integration with ServiceNow to be improved and to be taken to next level. Automation Powerpack should be made available OOTB as part of base product and to be priced attractively.
  • Take product to next level where we can monitor actual impacted IT or Business Service instead of metrics and events BSM and Topology map to be auto discovered and identify the network dependencies and alternate paths automatically instead of manual creation of BSM.
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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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ScienceLogic
It is simply because of all the best possible autonomy solutions it is providing and getting better day by day. Using AI and Devops along with handy automation, The monitoring and Management of devices becomes much easier and the way it is growing in all the aspects is one the best reasons too. Evolution of the SL1 platform in the autonomy monitoring and management is quite appreciable.
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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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ScienceLogic
The core functions are there.
The complexity is due to the complexity of the space.
The score is based on comfort (I no longer notice the legacy UI) and the promise that I see in the 8.12 Unified UI (a vast improvement).
It is also based on the fact that with 8.12, you can now do everything in the new UI but you still have the legacy UI as a fallback (which should now be unnecessary for new installations)
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Reliability and Availability
LogicMonitor
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ScienceLogic
SL is always there and online when you need to get info from it. The only times when SL was not available in our own data center, was when network links from out side of the data center was down and those links were not in our controll. Having a central database and people accessing it all over the world, may put a bit of constarin on the performance of the dashboards when reports gets generated, but that is far and few n between.
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Performance
LogicMonitor
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ScienceLogic
SceinceLogic SL1 architecture helps the platform to give a top-notch performance in every respect, Data collection to reporting happens very smoothly. With the new user interface pages load much faster. Individual appliances carrying the individual task ensure things are working without lag. Integration with ticketing tool(SNOW) is well managed by the ScienceLogic, no issue or much delay has been observed while interacting with an external tool.
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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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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
LogicMonitor
Add good training
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ScienceLogic
It was good, Do the online training first and understand it and you will get the most out of the in-person training that way. This also takes you to an advanced level which is very good and the training as been overhauled once again along with new product coming in such as Zebruim / Skylar, worth going through again if it a while back that you first did this.
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Online Training
LogicMonitor
The training is good but room to improve
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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
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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ScienceLogic
Implementation is smooth if we are to just support the out-of-the-box features available in ScienceLogic. For any custom requirement, having to go to SL1 Professional Services is the worst part of procuring this suite. And more often than not, SL1 Professional Services also ask to raise feature request. So, you subscribe to Professional Services to only hear back from them that "This feature is not supported and needs to have a separate feature request". At times frustrating.
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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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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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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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ScienceLogic
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Scalability
LogicMonitor
No answers on this topic
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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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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ScienceLogic
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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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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

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.

ScienceLogic SL1 Screenshots

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