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ScienceLogic SL1

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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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  • Setup fee required
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $7.50 per month per node
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Product Details

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

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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
  • Google
  • 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 TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, UNIX
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, APAC
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

ScienceLogic SL1 starts at $7.5.

LogicMonitor, Datadog, and Moogsoft are common alternatives for ScienceLogic SL1.

Reviewers rate Configurability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of ScienceLogic SL1 are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

ScienceLogic SL1 Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)0%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)100%
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am an SME in HCL Technologies for the ScienceLogic SL1 monitoring tool and have five ScienceLogic SL1 customers in a shared environment. There was scope to manage the entire 60 customers from HCL Tech, but because the scope is limited and not advanced, many customers opted out for ScienceLogic SL1 as a tool. Scope of use cases - each PowerPack should be tested properly for alerting. With the help of the application team, the DB alerts should be tested. They should consult with the DB team and ask what alerting is required and how relevant it is with the PowerPack that ScienceLogic SL1 offers, and accordingly, this should be enhanced.
  • 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.
ScienceLogic SL1 is well suited for all the environments, provided what you have in the ScienceLogic SL1 portal should work with taking today's advanced features in mind. ScienceLogic SL1 has great scope for a shared support environment, but customers are not opting in due to its limitations. ScienceLogic SL1 should focus, and thorough discussions should be organized, with SMEs for more to add as part of advanced features.
Benjamin Gerber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SL1 predominantly for Event Monitoring and overall health in our different customer environments. One of the business problems that we addressed by using SL1's process monitoring on servers via a custom dashboard, was to identify which application was causing high CPU usage and related processes. We created a custom dashboard that combined all the pieces of the puzzle together in one window, and we could focus our attention on what needed to be done, instead of trying to log onto to each server and see what was causing the problems. Creating dashboards in SL1 is quite easy and when there are issues in any of our customer environments, a dashboard can easily be put together, that highlights certain areas of technology, and this enables us to
  • 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.
In most of the scenarios I was able to assist users to view info pertaining to there specific case study. In cases where I was unable to help users or customers, it was a lack on our side, and not a problem with the product as we have not implemented all the functionality as I would have liked. SL1 is not a capacity tool, but it can be used to feed information into systems like BMC Truesight to do capacity reporting on.
January 02, 2024

Sl1 Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used to monitor the health of our devices. We primarily use events to monitor server resources, connectivity issues automation policy to meet our event conditions triggering an automatic action. If conditions are met an email is sent out and a ticket is raised and updated in our SNOW instance. The associated events also update our ticket status. Historically scripts were used to accomplish our monitoring needs. ScienceLogic SL1 has made our process more efficient with it automation.
  • Event Monitoring
  • Anomaly detection
  • Custom Reports
  • Ticketing
  • At this
  • Moment on how
  • we use it
  • everything meets our needs
ScienceLogic SL1 is better suited for distributed servers. Where it is lacking is network integration when comparing it to SolarWinds.
December 24, 2023

***Wonders of SL1***

Amit Sanwal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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. Not only this, the ease with which the SL1 UI Operates is just commendable and pretty fast with zero to no latency. Being a multi-cloud company, it's important that we serve our customers with fanatical support and SL1 helps us achieve that every day.
  • Monitoring servers
  • Monitoring public cloud appliances
  • Ease of integration with ServiceNow
  • UI with artificial intelligence
  • Reporting
SL1 is best suited for scenarios where we want detailed IT infrastructure monitoring. Scenarios where it is less appropriate would be for basic monitoring like URL, Ping, etc.
Santhana Krishnan Janakiraman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Monitoring the environment includes Servers, Networks, Cloud, Applications, Storage, Database, and Operating system. Business problems to replace multiple monitoring tools with one solution. Scope of the tool to replace existing monitoring solutions and handling integrations with other monitoring and health check systems. Integrate with the existing ticketing system, and automate actions for resolving the issues.
  • 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
A single tool that can be used to monitor, event management, and incident management. Agentless monitoring is an added advantage where most of the other monitoring tools in the market need agents to perform monitoring. Root cause analysis, automated run book automation, build own dynamic applications to customize any tools/application monitoring
September 25, 2023

SL Insight

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Almost perfect for OS monitoring. For some application you can use log file monitoring. It could have problems with specific technologies like cluster monitoring
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We do monitor the IT infrastructure resources (Server, Network devices, end points etc.) of different organizations using this monitoring tool. We used it for monitor different performance and configuration details of through this 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.
To monitor Small, medium and large IT infrastructure ScienceLogic is well suited.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used as our Primary Monitoring Platform, this system replaced out dating Nimsoft platform. the system is very flexible and can be tweaked to our needs / customer requestes for the most part.
  • 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
The fact you are able to spin up some "data collectors" on the VDC / customer environment is great - this means you do not need to logon and install an agent on all the machines
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is easy to use, its user friendly, however it has many bugs and issues, a lot of performance issues in a lot of times you need to contact support, and its hard to master.
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
Well suited for monitoring whole customers as it can be customized in a lot of ways, its hard to describe where it is less appropriate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use ScienceLogic SL1 as our primary source for monitoring as an MSP. The biggest problem we face is it's not as granular as we would like it to be. Using ScienceLogic SL1, we monitor devices across different vendor equipment using SNMP, Nmap, and API.
  • Powerpacks
  • Scheduling
  • Monitoring
  • Runbook automation
  • Grainularity
  • Access cli on web ui
  • More clear way on creating custom dynamic applications
I have a wide list of devices that need monitoring. Using SNMP, ScienceLogic SL1 can collect many metrics over various devices.
September 07, 2023

Genuine Customer Feedback

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are implementing this tool for client IT infrastructure monitoring. We have multiple issues like some parameters are not supported in Palo Alto devices and we can not monitor Panoroma. And in Eventing console will Parent host name for any DB instance. In Meraki Power Pack many make and models are missing so every time we need to add manually. Like that we have many issues.
  • 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 .
Support issue and engineering team needs to improve
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use ScienceLogic for monitoring purposes. As a monitoring tool, it is good, but after the recent update of SL, it has some issues as power flow takes time to sync with ServiceNow, and in Prod, it takes time to sync the Alerts, which causes multiple duplicate alerts.
  • 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.
As an Admin I understood that SL is overall a good monitoring tool but if we compare it with Splunk or Solarwinds, It can still make changes or add more features internally in the tool itself.
Alejandro Thickett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used within our organization as a tool for Infrastructure monitoring.

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
I think ScienceLogic SL1 is very good at being able to properly paint a business service overlay picture which gives greater depth of root cause and impact on what an outage will cause to the company.
September 01, 2023

SL1 review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ScienceLogic SL1 to monitor our client devices, servers, etc. In the future, Scope is good because it helps our client to maintain their servers. Also, It makes it easy with the feature of automation. Due to this no need to manually do everything. By the use of this, we can manage and monitor the events properly.
  • 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
while monitoring the events and checking the availability it's well suited.
Wian Crous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ScienceLogic as a monitoring tool to assist other companies manage and monitor their IT Estate. I personally assist with creating reports, Dynamic Applications, Run Book Automations and integrations into their other systems. I have to assist with custom requests, and mostly focus on their reports and integrations into their other monitoring systems.
  • 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
SL would be great in most environments, as they cover a very wide range of technologies. There platform is easy to use, and the out of the box functionality covers most of what you would need in your environment.

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..
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used to monitor devices across Datacom and our customers. Enabling alerts to events, ticket creation etc.
  • 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.
In my experience, it seems to be well suited to basic monitoring. I think if you need anything more than that, including needing a system not riddled with bugs, prompt support, or a cohesive user experience - look elsewhere
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It helps to monitor all the infrastructure. Based on the conditions we write it will notify us. If we develop any dynamic applications and any customizations in any of the ScienceLogic SL1 environments we can directly export them and import them into any of the ScienceLogic SL1 environments. It enables proactive issue detection and resolution.
  • 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.
Organizations that require proactive monitoring for their IT environment to detect and resolve issues before they impact users or services. By using ScienceLogic SL1 it will monitor the infra proactively and will also find out the root cause so that we can perform appropriate action also we can write Automations to run some commands from ScienceLogic SL1 itself if possible.
August 30, 2023

My ScienceLogic Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to monitor our on prem and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS). It escalates callouts to our engineers via PagerDuty and then raises a ticket in hornbill for the incident.
  • 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
This is well suited for medium to large business and not really needed for small companies.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Used in our own organisation and deployed on customer estates, It provides a uniform way of computer estate monitoring and capacity and asset management,
  • 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.
Before starting anything in the dashboards and indeed in the data collection, careful thought, design and planning is essential before starting. All that effort is worthwhile as developing powerpacks and dashboards is then much clearer and straightforward.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SL1 is being used in our organization to manage and support the proactive monitoring of Datacenter devices and applications of the National Railway of Belgium. The scope of SL1 is quite wide as our customer's inventory is spread across 3 huge datacenters (2 on-premise and 1 public cloud). We monitor more than 3000+ servers, 2000+ databases, 200+ Network devices, and 300+ applications. In TCS, we have gone beyond the Out-of-Box monitoring and built our own custom DAs and RBAs to support our customers. The best feature about the tool is its auto-discovery mechanism which has helped us to build an advanced CMDB showing the relationship between hyper-v and VMware host and guest devices and also with underlying databases. Also Sciencelogic has developed several powerpacks with third party tool like ELK, Kubernetes etc which are readily available for use. A few business problems which we have across during implementations were 1. 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). 2. Every small customization or help required from experts is treated as PS work and PS is very costly. 3. Sciencelogic Support engineers does not support and even does provide any suggestions on issues on customized DA even if the issue is because of the built-in ScienceLogic functions 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. 4. It is 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 due to which even the OS-related alerts get suppressed.
  • 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.
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. This feature has helped us a lot in building CMDB relationship diagrams. We found SL1 less appropriate when it comes to dashboarding and reporting. 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 additional columns on dashboards through Custom attributes. Out-Of-Box 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. There is a very limited number of reports that are too very basic and do not comply with industry best practices (like Availability reports do not have business and nonbusiness hour features and even do not exclude the outages during scheduled maintenance).
November 28, 2022

Cognizant Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Cognizant is an SI partner and Managed service provider worldwide. We recommend it to our customer for IT service Assurance. Cognizant is an SI partner and Managed service provider worldwide. We recommend it to our customer for IT service Assurance. Cognizant is an SI partner and Managed service provider worldwide. We recommend it to our customer for IT service Assurance.
  • 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
It is more appropriate when we plan the entire landscape monitoring from a single tool. It does monitoring and also performs event management like deduplication and correlations. This won't fit if customers looking for low-cost monitoring solution and looking for sole network device monitoring like Routes, Switches, loadbalensers, Firewalls, Security devices, etc...
October 25, 2022

Feedback from a user.

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mainly used to monitor host and network operations in our environment. <br><br>At present, the main management discussion issues are the adjustment flexibility of PowerPacks and the customization of reports.<br><br>The lack of local support from the vendor, so the different time zones that results few working hours of the support of every tickets.
  • Australia Support Engineer-Simon Lee provided very good support.
  • Provide more good customization options
  • Better support for various PowerPacks
Provide more Traditional Chinese support, online courses, PowerPack support, diversified report options, better user interface and user experience.

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.



Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ScienceLogic SL1 to monitor the entire IT Infra. We have a dedicated team who is monitoring the SL effectively and reaches out to concern teams proactively before there is a major impact. This helps us very good to avoid the impact downtime for our customers.
  • 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
If you have dedicated monitoring team, the SL helps to reduce impact on custome for outage
Autoticketing is a major concern, which makes it less appropriate
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use ScienceLogic SL1 for network monitoring for different networks, looking at events and logs.
  • 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.
ScienceLogic SL1 is highly appropriate when I need logs to see what is happening in my network. It shows me the appropriate and applicable things I need to see if my network is running and is good. If someone needs something to watch their network, then this does it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used to monitor the complete infrastructure, including Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, Network Monitoring, SDWAN Monitoring, Customized reports
  • Windows Monitoring
  • SDWAN Routers
  • Linux
  • Azure
  • Microsoft SQL Always On
SL1 is well suited for complete infrastructure monitoring, which includes both On-Premise and Cloud, including Network monitoring. SL1 is also doing very good with SDWAN Routers' interface utilization
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