IBM Netcool Network Management vs. ScienceLogic SL1

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Netcool Network Management
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Netcool Network Management integrates the IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition, Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool Configuration Manager products into a unified solution that consolidates the management of networks.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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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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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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IBM Netcool Network Management

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ScienceLogic SL1
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1 more cloud-oriented than Nagios. Product support is also very important for corporate users.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a relatively expensive solution that requires dedicated professional support and complex infrastructure.
Dynatrace is good for performance …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
Agentless, easy, and powerful. Easy to deploy, maintain and manage. The one-stop solution replaces multiple monitoring tools, has an inbuilt ticketing system, and can be integrated with any tools. Easy to deploy any application monitoring via REST API calls. Dynamic …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
ScienceLogic SL1 has great UI to configure any monitoring after setup, also has agent-less monitoring that's the great feature against mandate agent monitoring tool like ITM and Zabbix. ScienceLogic SL1 UI has great flexibility to configure any monitoring and modification as …
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The price
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ScienceLogic SL1 comparing with ITM/Netcool monitoring has better price. It's more easy to implement and mange ScienceLogic SL1 then other monitoring tools.
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Configuration and User Interface is simple in ScienceLogic SL1
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
It is a unique competitor against other tools since it has a long history and it is able to evolve for the future. The concept is tested and worked on from time to time. It has its own positive sides and some space to make it better. It can be adopted for most environments, …
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
I was not involved in the decission, it was more business decission. PCA was a product without accurate alarms.
Chose ScienceLogic SL1
SL1 stands apart from the others, imo, in their workflow automation capabilities. Giving customers a Python snippet environment to develop customer-coded diagnostic and remediation solutions stands out for us. Some of the other products I've looked at provide similar …
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ScienceLogic SL1 single tools have the features of all the different IBM tools. [The] main advantage of SL1 is it has Dynamic Applications which provides the benefit of agentless monitoring [capabilities] where it is not provided by any other IBM tools.
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As a big company we use almost all monitoring tools on the market but ScienceLogic may be different since it can be used as part of our offerings.
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In general EM7 stacks up well to other commercial products and open source products. Personally I have worked with well over 25 or 30 different monitoring products (probably 50 if you include product evaluations) and would rate EM7 around the top 75% as it applies to features …
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Features
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AIOps Features
Comparison of AIOps Features features of Product A and Product B
IBM Netcool Network 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
IBM Netcool Network ManagementScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.5
(207 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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9.1
(19 ratings)
Usability
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9.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
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9.9
(13 ratings)
Performance
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8.0
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
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6.5
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
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8.3
(5 ratings)
Online Training
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8.6
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.1
(78 ratings)
Configurability
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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
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Vendor pre-sale
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7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Netcool Network ManagementScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
This tool was integrated with Control-M, so whenever we receive any job failure, long-running job, job not started yet, etc, we receive an alert against it. This tool is also integrated with Maximo where we receive the incidents as well for it. Alert's color was as per the criticality of the job and that makes it very easy for an associate to act on it to resolve. We have the SLAs for the jobs as per the urgency of the jobs.
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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
IBM
  • This is one of the best monitoring tools.
  • Very simple to user.
  • Color code makes it very simple as per severity.
  • We receive the heartbeat alert every hour that shows the system is running up and fine.
  • We have black, red, yellow, and orange color alerts that show the critical, urgent, major, and minor incidents.
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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
IBM
  • Sometimes color differences of the incidents as per the criticality .
  • We don't receive the heartbeat alerts sometimes.
  • If the tool is down and we don't receive the alerts on the console we wait for the heartbeat alert and it makes some extra delay in resolving things.
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
This is one of the essential tools for monitoring. This tool was integrated with Maximo and Control-M in my organization. So whenever any job failed in Control-M, we receive an alert against it in the IBM Netcool/OMNIbus. We receive the alerts in different colors as per the criticality. Black for critical ones(Sev1), red for urgent (Sev2), yellow for major(Sev3), and orange for minor(Sev4). So it makes an easy to operate and act on the alerts as per the severity. This tool is very user-friendly and easy to use. No additional training is required for the tool to operate, just a simple KT is enough.
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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
IBM
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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
IBM
  • Color feature of the alerts as per the criticality is the amazing feature.
  • Heartbeat alert is also an unique feature.
  • No additional training is required to use this tool. just a simple KT is enough.
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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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