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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LogMeIn Rescue

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ALogMeIn Rescue is an enterprise remote support solution that provides IT helpdesks and customer support organizations with the ability to remotely access, diagnose, and resolve issues across endpoint devices. The platform includes in-session diagnostic tools, security controls, and workflow configuration features. The solution is utilized by IT help desks, global enterprises, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). It is designed to support…

    $149

    per month

    SolarWinds Pingdom

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.

    $14.95

    per month

    Pricing
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Editions & Modules
    Remote Device Support
    $149
    per month per seat
    Rescue Enterprise
    Contact Us
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Real User Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing. Contact sales for Enterprise pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Considered Both Products
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    147 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    121 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    153 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    107 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    49 Answers
    Features
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of LogMeIn Rescue and SolarWinds Pingdom
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.8
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SolarWinds Pingdom
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of LogMeIn Rescue and SolarWinds Pingdom
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    209 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SolarWinds Pingdom
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    File transfer8.6188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant message8.0128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers9.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session record8.6144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annotations8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of LogMeIn Rescue and SolarWinds Pingdom
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SolarWinds Pingdom
    -
    Ratings
    Third-party software integrations8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of LogMeIn Rescue and SolarWinds Pingdom
    Feature
    LogMeIn Rescue
    8.4
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SolarWinds Pingdom
    -
    Ratings
    Attended device access8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unattended device access7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile device access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual device access9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple-display support8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Small Businesses
    TeamViewer
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    BeyondTrust Remote Support
    Score8.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    TeamViewer
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (229 ratings)
    4.5
    (64 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (82 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (39 ratings)
    4.1
    (54 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LogMeIn RescueSolarWinds Pingdom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    LogMeIn is extremely appopriate when you have to perform something remotely or mutltask and perform work from your location. It gives you the ability to almost be at the site and perform work. While LogMeIn is an excellent toolkit. It can not always save the day. Sometimes it is more efficient to be on site to perform hardware upgrades, multiple software upgrades, technology refresehes and or have someone send you their hardware for rescue and repair as it is too messed up to fix and or perform the tasks remotely. However if you win 60 percent of the time - it's still a great benefit
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    I believe the scenarios we used it for were quite well covered, from the executive perspective. The downtime alarms worked very well and were easy to setup, uptime monitoring tools were clear and easy to use, even for non-technical people (C-level) and the SLA management tools allowed us to spend less time, and have less friction, with our clients
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • To be able to connect through email or through the website.
    • To be able to remotely control our client's computers.
    • To be able to see what is on our clients' screens after a remote session has been established.
    • To be able to chat with our clients through both the web and the desktop app versions in case we get disconnected.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • The alerts are very responsive offering quite detailed timing information
    • The UI for reports is very clear and set up of reports is very intuitive
    • Customer service was good when there were problems - e.g. lapsing billing causing reporting to go down
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • By default it would be good to have clipboard sync enabled - disabled instead. So difficult when copying from my computer doesn’t work because of an agent sharing the connection and it will not let us copy information into the client’s computer.
    • Copying into excel is difficult. It will deselect things that you have highlighted when copying.
    • Would be nice to make the hierarchy easier when sharing files between clients and us.
    • Logging into certain environments can be challenging and require customers to be fairly techy to be able to understand how to get logged into client’s computers.
    • Sometimes login is pretty unstable on certain internet connections even though they are fine when they use team viewer with their IT.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • The PagerDuty integration could be a lot better. When you use the PagerDuty integration, it doesn't send any information about which check failed! It just sends a message like "Timeout (> 30s)" -- this isn't very helpful when we have hundreds of checks. We've worked around this by using both the PagerDuty and Slack integrations and having them both post to the same Slack channel. But this means that when an engineer is paged from PagerDuty, they have to go to Slack (or Pingdom) to find the details about the page; it's not available on the page itself.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Since we have not had anything other than a couple minor hiccups with LogMeIn Rescue and due to the overwhelming success we have had in implementing as well as utilizing LogMeIn Rescue, I cannot see any reason why would consider looking elsewhere. Overall, we have been highly satisfied with LogMeIn Rescue and have no intentions of making a switch.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    Recently added features have made Pingdom less intuitive for our requirements. While Pingdom has a broad offering and remains a good value, it is becoming more than we need. Our customer base is becoming more and more global and Pingdom still lacks Asia-Pacific monitoring, which we will need within a year.
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    Usability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Sometimes connecting with a PIN has a delay that confuses users. If there is a way to minimize the delay, that would be ideal. If the user's individual account does have administrator permissions, the user has to click on elevated prompts even if administrator credentials are on hand. Yes, except if the user's individual account does not have administrator permissions. I have never gotten the option to input the admin credentials and start as system server to work across hundreds of sessions. I absolutely dread using LogMeIn Rescue during this type of scenario and may even need to use an alternative temporarily. Frequently clashes with users' security software. Otherwise, I love the application.
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    SolarWinds
    Pingdom is easy to use, very intuitive and has a very short learning curve. From the onset, we've been able to jump in and leverage the tool to accomplish our goals for page speed performance and discover the insights we need to make improvements. Its a well-designed tool and makes for a good user experience.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Log me in has never failed me
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    no complaints
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly.
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    Support Rating
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    We have never had to access support because the software has always worked as expected. It is great to have a software vendor from whom we know we will have no issue with glitches or incompatibility. We do know, however, that if we did have an issue, we would have our issue resolved quickly.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    Support responded the same day to my query, as I was setting the product up but couldn't find the setting I needed. This was successfully resolved in a short time frame, so I was pleased with how quickly we were able to get this resolved. I haven't needed to contact support since.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Make sure you have your LogMeIn Rescue account sign-in details handy when installing on multiple support systems.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    I haven’t reviewed other platforms like LogMeIn Rescue because I am not aware of any alternative tools available to us for assisting clients and performing troubleshooting. Additionally, LogMeIn Rescue is the first tool I have used that allows me to view a client’s screen, which is why I am unable to compare it with others.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    1. PRTG Network Monitor was a far more complicated tool to use and set up albeit it does both Internal and External monitoring. The setup wasn't intuitive and there are too many configuration options to complete to form an alert
    2. Amazon CloudWatch is specific to AWS resources and cannot be easily use outside of the AWS Ecosystem
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    it's perfect
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • For businesses with small to midsize IT staff, the ability to remotely control devices that are not on-site and occasionally out of state is extremely cost-effective.
    • The speedy response time of LogMeIn Rescue has been very helpful in resolving issues for IT staff.
    • The administrative process has been made more efficient by the ability to remotely log into servers.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Honestly, we have 4 other products that overlap this functionality whose organizations provide far superior support. At this point it is an unnecessary expense.
    • In my opinion, their lack of support responsiveness and commitment has impacted our IT agility.
    • Its time to explore other alternatives.
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    ScreenShots

    LogMeIn Rescue Screenshots

    Screenshot of Technician Group Configuration - Where users can create technician groups and subgroups with granular agent permissionsScreenshot of The console where repetitive tasks automated by running pre written scripts in the background, without disturbing end usersScreenshot of A smartphone camera being used to troubleshoot offline computers and hardwareScreenshot of Remote control of Macs, PCs and Linux/AndroidScreenshot of Reboot sessions and automationScreenshot of The central dashboard where common mobile device issues on iPhone and Android can be identified and addressed without the need to navigate the end user's device.

    SolarWinds Pingdom Screenshots

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