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What is ScienceLogic SL1?
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.
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Monitoring Suite that lags way behind for Modern Use Cases
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Science Logic : Journey from Better to Best
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How ScienceLogic SL1 Differs From Its Competitors
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Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
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Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
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ScienceLogic Integration
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
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Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
This has improved as SL1 offers deeper levels of monitoring and also easier management of the platform (Ease of management is important as changes are more likely to get done. If I make an improvement to a …
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Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
When moving to ScienceLogic we gained a deeper insight into our infrastructure, its functionality and health alongside providing us with a more in-depth dashboarding tool-set.
We are also hoping with the move to service orientated dashboarding this will provide us with better visibility of …
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Previously we used ScienceLogic to be a trigger point on our automated self-healing pipeline, but we have recently started testing the out of the box features within SL1 to automate system recovery.
It plugs in well/integrates well with other tooling we use which is assisting us to remove the …
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
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Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
These are the benefits we noticed for automating our monitoring through ScienceLogic:
- Improved security and compliance. Automatically record and audit all employee actions within a workflow, safeguard vital data, restrict access and roles of users and alert project owners when any problems arise.
- Cen…
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We see it has significant value to the question here, …
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Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
ScienceLogic Integration
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
(1) the agentless function is different from the traditional one and supports rapid deployment with the standard platform.
(2) Event handling function is different from traditional tool and can prevent …
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ScienceLogic Integration
(2) Application can write simple monitoring script and send event to ScienceLogic SL1 to provide centralized event management and application alerts.
Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
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Impact on Infrastructure Visibility
Using ScienceLogic to Support New Business
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- SL1 automates the discovery of the new customer infrastructure on-prem, in the cloud, etc. This allows for quicker onboarding. Having said that. it is still a subject of the security review in many DCs and this (although not a technical or capability issue) tends to impact the deployment times …
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- $7.50 per month per node
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What is ScienceLogic SL1?
The ScienceLogic SL1 platform aims to enable companies to digitally transform themselves by removing the difficulty of managing complex, distributed IT services. SL1 uses patented discovery techniques to find everything in a network, so users get visibility across all technologies and vendors running anywhere in data centers or clouds. The vendor states the advantage of SL1 is that it collects and analyzes millions of data points across an IT universe (made up of infrastructure, network, applications, and business services), to help users make sense of it all, share data, and automate IT processes.
With SL1, the user can:
- See everything across cloud and distributed architectures. Discover all IT components—–across physical, virtual, and cloud. Collect, merge, and store a variety of data in a clean, normalized data lake.
- Contextualize data through relationship mapping and machine learning (ML) for actionable insights. Use this context to understand the impact of infrastructure and applications on business service health and risk, accelerate root cause analysis, and execute recommended actions.
- Act on data that is shared across technologies and IT ecosystem in real time. Apply multi-directional integrations to automate workflows at cloud scale.
ScienceLogic SL1 Features
- Supported: Infrastructure Monitoring (Cloud, Container, Server, Storage, Agent-Based, Network, Application, Database, UC/Video, Synthetic)
- Supported: Closed-Loop Automations (Digital Experience Monitoring, CMDB & Inventory, Incident & Notifications, NetFlow, Configuration and Change Management, Troubleshooting & Remediation
- Supported: Topology-Driven Event Correlation
- Supported: Full-Stack Topology Mapping
- Supported: Business Service Monitoring
- Supported: Behavioral Correlation (Events, Changes, Anomalies, Topology)
- Supported: Analytics - ML-Based Anomaly Detection
- Supported: Incident Automation - Event Forwarding & Email
- Supported: Dynamic Baselining Analytics
- Supported: Manage Workflow Health & Endpoints
- Supported: Dashboards and Reporting
- Supported: Log Collection
- Supported: 400+ Pre-Built Monitoring Integrations
ScienceLogic SL1 Screenshots
ScienceLogic SL1 Videos
Watch Eliminating Visibility Gaps While Driving Tool Consolidation
Watch Diagnosing and Resolving Service Impacting Issues with Behavioral Correlation
Watch Automating Troubleshooting for Faster Root Cause Analysis
Watch CMDB Accuracy With Real-time Synchronization of Monitored Environment
Watch Understanding Infrastructure Impact on Apps with AppDynamics
ScienceLogic SL1 Integrations
- Kubernetes
- Cisco HyperFlex
- Nimble
- Hyper-V
- MySQL
- Dynatrace
- New Relic
- Cloud -AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- IBM Cloud
- Aliyun
- CloudStack
- OpenStack
- etc.
- Cloud Services – Amazon EKS
- ECS
- Fargate; Azure AKS; etc.
- Containers – Docker
- etc.
- Software-defined Networks/WAN – Cisco
- VMware
- etc.
- Network - Cisco
- F5
- Juniper
- Meraki
- Riverbed
- Aruba
- Avaya
- Fortinet
- HP
- etc.
- Storage - Dell EMC
- NetApp
- HPE
- Hitachi
- Nutanix
- Pure Storage
- etc.
- Hypervisors – VMware
- Xen
- KVM
- etc.
- Operating Systems - Unix
- Windows
- Linux
- Business Applications
- Databases - Microsoft
- SAP
- Office 365
- MS SQL Server
- Oracle
- IBM DB2
- etc.
- APM - AppDynamics
- etc.
- etc.
- Storage - Dell EMC
- NetApp
- Pure
- HP/Nimble
- etc.
- Cloud -AWS
- Azure
- IBM
- Aliyun
- Openstack
- etc.
- Applications -Microsoft
- SAP
- etc.
- Compute -VMWare
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- KVM
- Linux
- Unix
- Converged -Nutanix
- Unified Communications and video - Cisco
- Polycom
- Tandberg
ScienceLogic SL1 Competitors
ScienceLogic SL1 Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, UNIX |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, APAC |
Supported Languages | English |
ScienceLogic SL1 Downloadables
Frequently Asked Questions
ScienceLogic SL1 Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 0% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 100% |
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(380)Attribute Ratings
- 9.2Likelihood to Renew19 ratings
- 9.9Availability13 ratings
- 8Performance13 ratings
- 9.4Usability13 ratings
- 6.4Support Rating18 ratings
- 8.6Online Training5 ratings
- 8.3In-Person Training5 ratings
- 8.1Implementation Rating78 ratings
- 10Configurability7 ratings
- 8Product Scalability1 rating
- 7.8Ease of integration14 ratings
- 7.7Vendor pre-sale4 ratings
- 8.5Vendor post-sale5 ratings
- 8.5ScienceLogic Infrastructure Visibility Rating68 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 116)- Ping monitoring and polling reports are very good. Customer-first looks for this feasibility and how closely it can monitor that is well defined in ScienceLogic SL1.
- Collectors' connectivity with SL DB is very stable. We hardly see issues of any connectivity failing. Agentless is far better and easy to handle and use than other tools. The best part is plug and play type.
- CDM monitoring, it really does well and has wise poll reporting.
- The dashboard is really awesome. We use and showcase to customers their servers as a whole, and for one server, a lot of details can be checked under the performance graph.
- Bulk Onboarding/Offboarding is so good in ScienceLogic SL1. Search criteria are matchless. ScienceLogic SL1 has such a beautiful, organized field.
- Suppression alerts, FS is so well defined, easy and quick to use.
- ScienceLogic SL1 has improved so much in defining license consumption, which shows license consumed against all items.
- Log monitoring and event monitoring should be defined and should not be enabled with event ids. We have to create a duplicate Dynamic App if different events ids are to be enabled as per application. More visibility and descriptions should be included in the Log and Event id monitoring description.
- Database monitoring should be enhanced, and more advanced features should be added, such as replication, DB mirroring, DB Sync, Log Shipping, etc. So far, with the Dynamic app, we can't monitor DB status. The same goes with virtual server addition, we don't get DB status alerts which is deadly required. The same goes for all the DB like Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, and others. Numerous features and capabilities should be there. You may take the example of CA UIM, which has more than 75 parameters to enable against DB. ScienceLogic SL1 is lacking badly in this area.
- UNIX servers cluster monitoring is not that good, we can only monitor cluster nodes' status, but there are more that can be captured as part of features.
- TOP 10 processes and services should be captured for CPU and Memory. We don't have such things yet that can be enabled or found in a server.
- HADR, AS400 are majorly asked for by customers but till now it's not available.
- Application deep level monitoring is very limited in scope, such as HTTP, DNS, AD, and others.
- ScienceLogic SL1 reports don't work so well. They need to be worked on it for internal troubleshooting purposes.
- Hardware, Backup, and Storage monitoring are very limited in scope, which should be increased.
- Traps based monitoring should be encouraged more from ScienceLogic SL1.
- Monitoring with advanced features of Active Directory, DNS servers, Exchange servers, etc., should be more in scope.
- The most important thing, PowerPack, which is in ScienceLogic SL1, should be tested well and should be released only with the consent of the Application/DB team.
- There should be a team who should work on Community PowerPack so that if the customer wants to make it and use it via general availability should be available.
- Customer support and follow-up have gone down over the past two years as if they don't bother, which has a negative impact. Customer is big or small. SMEs who work ideally send out messages to other organizations about how good a tool is or how bad its support system is.
- A quarterly training session should be organized, as in real terms, your ScienceLogic SL1 is driven by SMEs who work on your tool, and many of the wrong impressions are sent due to SMEs' ignorance even if the tool is good.
- I see the big scope of ScienceLogic SL1 as a monitoring tool provided 10% of ScienceLogic SL1 product is improved. The demand for 10% is so much, and it's not good that it's the main reason your 90% good things are sidelined.
SL1 in a Managed IT Services Environment
- Event Monitoring
- Dashboards and creating custom Dashboards
- Device Discovery
- 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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- Event Monitoring
- Anomaly detection
- Custom Reports
- Ticketing
- At this
- Moment on how
- we use it
- everything meets our needs
***Wonders of SL1***
- Monitoring servers
- Monitoring public cloud appliances
- Ease of integration with ServiceNow
- UI with artificial intelligence
- Reporting
One-Stop Solution - ScienceLogic SL1
- Agentless
- User-friendly
- Run book automations
- Event policies
- Not everything migrated to AP2 from classic portal
- Masking events related to time
- Internal events cannot be modified
SL Insight
- Log file monitoring is very versatile, could be useful to monitor basically anything for that you do not have special PP.
- Overall Cost-Effective solution, transparent GUI, dashboards
- SL support - during P1 issues, like SL DB cluster issues, they are providing very handy help
- selfmonitoring - need to add detection of monitoring has stopped
- guides, manuals, knowledge base - very misleading, not detailed, does not cover many situations
- SL Support on daily issues - from experience, often not much helpful, the support case you raise for them is often not followed, replies are seldom, they try only to close the case ASAP without any solution, without asking you if this solution is ok for you
Insights of ScienceLogic monitoring tool
- Monitor performance of the system resources.
- Integration with different ticketing tools.
- Can create business dashboards
- They should have Powerpack for all different technolgies.
- The support system should be more robust.
- If there is any issue with powerpack they should release new version of Powerpack ASAP.
If in your environment certain technologies are there where no Powerpack is available, then it'll be less appropriate to use ScienceLogic as to develop such Powerpack might take some time.
ScienceLogic SL1 Top Notch Monitoring Platform
- Grouping of Devices for central management
- communicates with Service Now very well
- Easily search customers or devices
- Dashboards could do with being more "out of the box" friendly
- I constantly switch bewteen the new AP2 and classic view for different functions
- different user privileges could do with being more generic or simpler
A lot of stuff for cheap price.
Support is mostly quick and helpfull which makes the things easier and they improve quality aswell by time.
We provide support to customers which then use the science logic to monitor their stuff.
- Monitoring of various platforms
- Customization of situations
- Customer support
- Performance
- Faster resolution of issues
- Faster fixes/implementation of new stuff
- Powerpacks
- Scheduling
- Monitoring
- Runbook automation
- Grainularity
- Access cli on web ui
- More clear way on creating custom dynamic applications
Genuine Customer Feedback
- Dashboards
- To monitor Servers
- Documentation
- To Improve in Palo Alto monitoring Parameters
- To Improve in Meraki Power Pack as many make and model missing
- To add parent device in event console for any DB
- Eventing console filleter issue
- Need to improve or increase more no. of device to add in Dashboard as we have limit for 50 devices in one site .
ScienceLogic: Journey of the Better to Best.
- Monitoring of Devices.
- Log collection.
- Clear Dashboard View.
- To find options on getting model ID and Serial number while using SNMP for Windows or Linux devices.
- To store more amount of data on a device basis.
- SL can optimize the sigterm issue by itself or can find out the exact reason on the collectors.
ScienceLogic SL1 A Worthy Tool for MSPs
As an MSP we required to upgrade our tooling to allow us to properly enable monitoring of a customers infrastructure and alert at the correct levels from a device to a business service impact. Without ScienceLogic SL1 we were only ever able to monitor at a device by device basis and not see the entire overall impact a device outage could have on a business service and the business as a whole. We are also extending the usage of this to start automation of some of the more basic events and alerts so that we can attempt auto remediation & resolution on simple recurring issues. ScienceLogic SL1 has also given us the ability to properly look at root causes as we have more data from the various sources and can look at the events that occurred for those high priority issues in greater depth.
- Automations
- Discovery
- Deep Monitoring of different OS/Network Devices
- Some of the User interface still requires work
- Monitoring of non common hardware
SL1 review
- Manage the events Properly.
- Dashboard is well designed and detailed.
- By the help of this we can easily fetch the detailed reports
- Sometimes, Report creates problem it not generated properly.
- we can improve our automation policies
ScienceLogic can be used in any monitoring environment
- 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
- Their reporting is difficult and complicated to create your own. This can also be moved to a newer language (AP2 View)
- Being able to use their API/GQL with SSO
I would say the environments where SL is difficult to use, is where there are a lot of security rules regarding firewalls, ldap and SSO. There are some features that does not always work across the board. However, even in these environments does SL do a great job and they are happy to assist getting the functionality you need..
ScienceLogic SL1 - an attempt was made
- It is effective for monitoring common devices
- The ap2 interface is generally pleasant to use
- PowerFlow
- Support - time to resolution
- Support - fast access to engineering
- Cohesive UI/UX - why does the classic UI still exist?
- Bug finding - we feel like glorified beta testers (see comments about support)
- UX - if you have to explain how things work, you've failed. e.g. there are pages where three buttons all have the same text and all do different things!
- utilisation of AI across the board.
ScienceLogic SL1 Journey from Implementation to Impact
- Root cause analysis: By analyzing the logs ScienceLogic SL1 will find out the root cause accurately
- ScienceLogic SL1 employs proactive monitoring techniques to identify potential issues before they cause significant disruptions.
- IT team can Customize Dashboards and Reports based on the requirement
- Documentation should be expanded
- If video related training is added it is great.
My ScienceLogic Review
- It monitors our devices and reports on the detections we have created.
- monitors web endpoints
- can handle bespoke complex monitors
- discovery of devices automatically
- Most of the things I can think of have now been addressed in this new release.
- Documentation could be less ambiguous sometimes
- More active to detecting system alerts and having them sorted before we have need to inform them SAAS
Useful all round monitoring tool
- Easy to configure for monitoring devices of the same make and model.
- Straightforward to develop powerpacks for new or updated devices.
- Easy to configure for setting alerts on devices and device models.
- Easy to create dashboards for device or service monitoring.
- Creating powerpacks from scratch for new devices may be straightforward but will rarely be easy. Rewarding when completed, but not easy.
- Developer documentation needs a rethink. While the information may be there (it isn't always) it is not easy to find. This is not helped by using different terms for the same things.
- A developer console/dashboard for monitoring data collection from powerpacks instances without having to switch webpages or have to monitor multiple webpages.
1. When we needed to monitor an application that comprised of several devices and network components, it was easy to set this up and, after a little training, easy for the operations team to use it.
2. When we needed to monitor part of a cloud it was not so easy to configure, but once that was done, it was very easy to use for the operations team as it followed the same style as the application monitoring.
- Auto-Discovery feature is very good which helps us in building relationships between hyper-v and VMware host and guest devices. Also, it helps in building the relationship with MSSQL Databases.
- Ability to perform bulk discovery and update in ScienceLogic.
- Flexibility to clone the Dynamic Applications and do custom modifications.
- Flexibility to create custom RBA's and do several automations.
- Also ScienceLogic has come up with several new power packs for integrating with third party tool like ELK, Kubernetes etc which are readily available for use
- OOB Reports (Availability and Capacity) are not very user-friendly and also do not fetch correct data most of the time or even show blank reports a lot of time. A very limited number of reports and that too very basic and do not comply with industry best practices (like Availability reports do not have a business and not business hour feature and even does not exclude the outages during scheduled maintenance)
- Dashboards do not have a lot of widgets and are hence are not able to create complex dashboards. There should be the flexibility of adding an additional column on dashboards through Custom attributes.
- Not possible to put only a few metrics (like DB services) in maintenance for a certain period. The entire server has to be put in maintenance mode and then even OS alerts get suppressed.
- The audit logs page does not get loaded and gives "504 Gateway Time-out" most of the time
- Every small customization is treated as PS work and PS is very costly.
- The SL1 support team does not support and even does provide suggestions on issues on customized DA even if the issue is because of the built-in ScienceLogic functions. There are a lot of internal Dynamic Apps (Like for filesystem, services, processes, availability, etc) where there is no visibility on the logic of how alerts are configured.
Cognizant Review
- On prem Monitoring
- Cloud monitoring
- customization option available to explore solutions that are not available out of the box
- Integration Options
- Integration Options
- License flixibility
- PS cost
- Frequency to release new cloud service support
Feedback from a user.
- Australia Support Engineer-Simon Lee provided very good support.
- Provide more good customization options
- Better support for various PowerPacks
The more efficiency monitoring of the Science Logic system itself, like performance and more diversified email notifications.
More convenient communication channels for customers, more real-time support, and let customer convenience to provide feedback.
Monitor your Infra with ease, as SL is there always
- Monitors the Infra efficiently
- Auto Tickets to respective queues whenever any flaws in Infra
- Email reminders gets for any CRITICAL issues on Infra
- Auto Ticketing is a real time challenge.
- When event gets changed from Minor to Major, the incident comes back to source queue
- No location filter option in register to filter via device location wise
Autoticketing is a major concern, which makes it less appropriate
ScienceLogic SL1 gives better visibility.
- Monitors well. Anything that pops up is easy to see. We know where something went wrong.
- Easy. Very easy to navigate and use the interface. The icons show what we are looking for.
- Alerts are right. It doesn’t give out wrong information or tell us wrong stuff.
- Better directions. Installing it was a problem because it was my first time doing it. I followed the directions but sometimes it was confusing.
- More friendly for first time users. Again with the directions and knowing how to properly set it up would’ve helped.
- Have more steps on how to set it up. Maybe a person could brief you on what you got and be able to come to you to help set up.
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