Nagios XI vs. ScienceLogic SL1

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nagios XI
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Nagios XI is an Enterprise Server and Network Monitoring Software, built on Nagios Core and designed to comprehensive application, service, and network monitoring in a central solution. Nagios XI is available in two different editions: Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition provides users with additional functionality and includes features that are designed to aid in…
$1,995
Per Instance
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.9 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
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
Editions & Modules
Standard
$1995
Per Instance
Enterprise
$3495
Per Instance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
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
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
Considered Both Products
Nagios XI

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ScienceLogic SL1
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Used nagios but I found this is the best
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
In comparison to above tools specifically in terms of monitoring capabilities, ScienceLogic SL1 is way-way behind.

A lot of features which were available in these suites may be in 2010s are still not available in 2020s.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
As enterprise, we needed to leverage a tool that would resolve our problems for a fair price. Although ScienceLogic is not a fancy tool for some environments (as Dynatrace for the APM) or the visual appeal for observability (as Prometheus) we needed a tool that would broadly …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
SL1 allow for much greater flexibility, the ability to do IT service modeling and dependency monitoring.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Sciencelogic SL1 is a strategic choice for all our customers. So for new customers or for new contracts we must use SL1 solution.
Features
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
AIOps Features
Comparison of AIOps Features features of Product A and Product B
Nagios XI
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Ratings
ScienceLogic SL1
6.9
21 Ratings
6% below category average
Monitoring and Alerting00 Ratings7.720 Ratings
Performance Analytics00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Incident Management00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Service Desk Integration00 Ratings6.821 Ratings
Root Cause Analysis00 Ratings6.617 Ratings
Capacity Planning Tool00 Ratings6.619 Ratings
Configuration and Change Management00 Ratings6.519 Ratings
Automated Remediation00 Ratings7.117 Ratings
Collaboration and Communication00 Ratings7.117 Ratings
Threat Intelligence00 Ratings6.516 Ratings
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User Ratings
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(4 ratings)
7.8
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(24 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.7
(15 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(14 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(14 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
5.7
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(91 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Nagios XIScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
Nagios Enterprises
If anyone looking for the monitoring system for the infrastructure this is the go-to tool which monitors all infrastructure related components from server health to Networking and update us with mails and can be easily integrated with multiple other tools as needed for example PagerDuty , Also this suits good both on premises and cloud environments as well. If we are managing complex environment this tool for monitoring is best one.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
  • Network monitoring.
  • Database monitoring.
  • Windows Server monitoring.
  • Cluster Service monitoring.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
  • Robust, but visually old interface. Requires a lot of work to become presentable.
  • Small selection of dashlets to construct new views.
  • No MS Azure monitoring ability, nothing for “as service,” very limited Amazon cloud monitoring abilities.
  • Questionable price politics (could make it a lot less for developing markets to actually increase use of the product and R&D budgets).
  • No report designers nor the ability to create new reports. No changes in this area for years.
  • Overall lack of new developments, making this product more and more outdated.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
This tool has been has been of great use and learning , offering exceptional ease of use, scalability, and detailed reporting. It has a lot of customization options and proactive monitoring which have significantly improved our infrastructure management.It's UI & functions are good. Also has built in templates for various end points.It also provides graphical reports. With a Dashboard you can monitor easily
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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
Nagios Enterprises
We
are using Nagios XI in our organization primarily for monitoring all our
application servers and databases, this is helping us in addressing all the
infrastructure issues in advance by alerting us when it any server hits the
threshold as per the initial parameter setup also it has free tier which helps for small scale applications monitoring to save some expenses.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
Never seen any such outages with Nagios XI till day it was available all the time working as expected
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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
Nagios Enterprises
Performance wise it does its best job we monitor more than 500 Servers and we use this tool for Analysis also so never felt any lag
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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
Nagios Enterprises
Nagios XI support has plans to offer the following features:
  • Access to knowledgeable IT professionals – including support staff and developers.
  • Access to customer-only tutorials, documentation, and content in the Nagios Library.
  • Access to customer-only boards on our support forum for expedited assistance.
  • Access to customer-only email support for fast, confidential assistance.
  • Discounts on future license purchases.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
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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
Nagios Enterprises
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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
Nagios Enterprises
I have been participated in the few implementations, and I would say its bit complex when its come to initial setup once its set post that its easy to manage
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ScienceLogic
As first time developers, getting to grips with powerpack development using SNMP, Powershell and Python etc, was not helped by poor and badly organised online documentation. In many cases, we had to look at existing powerpacks and try to work out what it was doing and why - not always with much success. Even after receiving expert level training, the development of some powerpacks would not have been possible without access to the SL1 support staff.
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Alternatives Considered
Nagios Enterprises
Cost efficiency is the main reason which we opted [for] Nagios as we were previously using IDERA tool with comprehensive database monitoring solutions, but the slow performance we are getting while monitoring the instance of the database.
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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
Nagios Enterprises
We have installed Nagios XI for our monitoring system and with this we are managing around 600 servers in total and not seen any major issues with its scalability we can scale it as much as we require and also installed on various applications servers and working as expected
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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
Nagios Enterprises
  • Very good ROI.
  • Good results as capacity mgmt tool.
  • Good results as application monitoring tool.
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ScienceLogic
  • We are still evolving with the tool so can't really comment on the actual RoI but the features provided does adds up the customer expectations.
  • Global manager usage gives us the holistic view of separate SL1 infrastructures
  • Power flow helps to use some pre built Autometas which helps saves lot of time and effort
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ScreenShots

ScienceLogic SL1 Screenshots

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