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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 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use ScienceLogic SL1 at my job at Kyndryl to provide monitoring services of IT infrastructure for clients and customer support teams.
  • SL1 provides monitoring for various databases.
  • SL1 can monitor all popular operating systems.
  • SL1 uses monitoring agents and agentless monitoring.
  • SL1 requires a lot of CPU resources.
  • User Interface is not intuitive.
  • Documentation is poorly organized.
ScienceLogic SL1 is good for cloud monitoring - main vendors are supported, and a lot of modern hardware is supported. There is lack of support of old operating systems and the agents may consume a lot of local resources. The SL1 system scales well and has good manufacturer support and has good price.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • monitoring
  • ticketing
  • Event notification
  • more customized monitoring should be provided by SL1
We are using SL1 in our Network monitoring, it is helping us in monitoring our servers and knowing the status when the server status when they are in critical state, we are using in the integration aswell with ticketing tool. If the company is both large and small, SL1 can be used for monitoring both cases. There are lot of monitoring available already, you can use it and even we can customize or create it based on the requirement. We have monitoring for different types of devices like windows, linux etc. We have default polices we can use to monitor, we have reports, we have integration with emails as well to use. We have powerflow aswell to use, where we can integrate it with third party tools. We have topology view to use. We have powerpacks to use for monitoring, they get updated regularly in the monitoring point of view. Event SL1 portal also gets updated with the upgrades that makes the UI more customer friendly. We have dynamic application monitoring as well, which helps to monitor the devices based on the scripting. The Dynamic applications are present for different types of device classes, they are both OOB and customizable for monitoring.
December 29, 2023

Feedback on ScienceLogic

Jas Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sciencelogic is used for monitoring servers, hardware, databases, storages, containers and operating systems in our enviroment. It is a all in one tool for us, however it does come with some limitations due to having a broad scope. Overall it has been a good experience using this product
  • automations
  • integrations
  • customizable applications
  • Documentation
  • lack of training
  • lack of essential monitoring out of the box
  • slow external support. sometimes takes weeks to get a resolution.
This tool is aptly designed for routine monitoring tasks in daily business operations. However, adapting it to meet the needs of a large organization with over 1000 employees involves an extensive commitment of time. Expect to spend several months developing custom code, tailoring dynamic applications, and setting up automations to ensure it aligns well with the organization's scale and requirements.
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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is a very good platform for learning. Complex tool with a lot of features, some left to be described. It seems like very capable tool, although it does have some shortfalls. of course many monitoring platforms have these, as its a difficult task to make a single product cover all bases.
  • Tool is very capable
  • Good learning platform
  • easy to monitoring
  • Complex tool but manageable
Science Logic is a next-level and all-in on one solution for monitoring IT assets. Its simplified UI components navigate the product in a very easy-to-use manner. Science Logic has been a strong partner to work with the product is very good and is very customizable I have not found a situation that SL1 will not perform.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are managing ScienceLogic SL1 as a monitoring tool and Netcool.
  • It can monitor any Network devices, Operating system, processes, hardware and many more.
  • some more flexibility should be there like , it should provide functionality to get tcpdump if user is facing network disconnect between infra servers to devices
Monitoring system like ScienceLogic SL1 is really fulfilling the monitoring requirements for all types of Network . Doing great job with huge flexibility and functionality. I would recommend to my friend who are in monitoring field to learn this as This tool has bright future. ScienceLogic SL1 as a monitoring tool is the best for any type of monitoring requirements.
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
We integrated ScienceLogic SL1 to streamline our IT operations. We used its unified monitoring for a clear view of our hybrid IT environment, automating asset discovery which saved significant manual effort. The platform's AI-driven analytics improved our incident response, dependency mapping aided in informed decision-making during migrations, and its capacity planning tools optimized our resource utilization. Overall, SL1 transformed our IT processes, making them more proactive and efficient.
  • Automated discovery and synchroniztion
  • Dynamic Service mapping
  • AI driven Analytics for proactive incident management
  • Multi tenancy and Scalability
  • Customizable dashboards
  • User interface and experience
  • Documentation and training
  • Reporting capabilities
  • Mobile experience
Well suited for
- Complex hybrid environment
- Managed service providers
- IT Asset Discovery and Mapping
- Predictive IT Operations

Less suited for:
- Small startups with simple IT needs
- Companies needing intensive mobile monitoring
- Organizations with tight budget

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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic SL1 is used to fulfill many requirements. A list of them would be as follows:
  • Enterprise visibility
  • Monitoring
  • Integrations
  • AIOps
  • Reporting
  • Automation
  • RCA

Scope is 360 degrees of visibility across the enterprise.
  • Monitoring of Devices
  • Integrations to 3rd party software
  • Automations
  • Reporting is robust but not user friendly unless proper training
  • Lacks Network Flow Analytics out of the box
I think ScienceLogic SL1 is well suited for monitoring on-premise, cloud and IoT devices. It provides robust reporting, integration, visualization and automation.

In my opinion, it would be benefit from incorporating more network flow and application performance monitoring.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had to create test environment to see all possibilities and functionality of ScienceLogic SL1 monitoring as we have plan to migrate it from current ITM/Netcool monitoring. What is surprising is fact that ScienceLogic SL1 giving so many ways to monitor different things like Storage, DB, Cloud, OS systems itself etc. Moreover ScienceLogic SL1 is so user friendly and it's really easy to navigate between functions.It seems to be very powerful software. I would recommend ScienceLogic SL1 to all of them who are looking for really useful monitoring tool and expecting easy way of managing it.
  • Switches monitoring
  • DB monitoring
  • SNMP monitoring
  • General documentation for implementation and configuration
Switches monitoring.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For Monitoring
  • All types of Infra can monitor
  • Severity of Events
  • Maintenance mode of a device
  • notification need to be there before clicking on upgrade button
  • Notification need to be there before reboot collector
  • Delaying to present the current uptime when rebooted a collector
I am feeling nice to work in Science Logic Monitoring tool . There is some issue regarding which i have informed before regarding Notification of upgrade when clicking the executing button so there should be a notification windows as well as regarding notification reboot of collector in Science Logic Monitoring Tool
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 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use ScienceLogic SL1 for monitoring and alerting critical IT infrastructure, including cloud computing, networking, Windows and Linux servers, websites, bandwidth usage metrics, and SSL certificates. Nearly all of our IT infrastructure is supported by SL1 power packs and dynamic applications, including SNMP and API monitoring and alerting endpoints.
  • Integrations with ServiceNow for CMDB population and alert escalation.
  • Customizable collections of performance and capacity metrics.
  • The ability to customize event policies for alerts.
  • Native multi-tenant features and functionality in the platform.
  • The legacy EM7 interface can be overwhelming with configuration options.
  • RBAC roles and policies can be difficult to manage for larger organizations.
  • PowerPacks are required for nearly every vendor's platform, which requires software development resources in-house, or having to work with ScienceLogic to request and prioritize support for new vendors.
ScienceLogic SL1 is well-suited for organizations with mature software development and/or DevOps teams so that SL1 can be used to its full potential without having to rely on ScienceLogic's product development release cycles. Organizations without in-house software development resources will have a much steeper learning curve, especially businesses with IT infrastructure not already supported by SL1.
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).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mostly use ScienceLogic SL1 to monitor all kinds of Cisco Devices that are managed in the client environment. ScienceLogic SL1 helped in many ways to reduce the outages, and even if we have outages, it was notified well in advance to react to the problems. We are also using ScienceLogic SL1 for the performance and availability reports based on customer needs. This helps the customers to visualize the usage of their device.
  • Network device monitoring
  • Reports
  • Availability
  • DRBD
  • Reporting
  • Integration with SNOW should be simpler
  • Inbuilt flood control
Some of the scenarios that ScienceLogic SL1 was well suited was with network performance monitoring. As we were using UIM for monitoring, and that had a lot of constraints in it. Hence we moved to ScienceLogic SL1 for better monitoring capabilities.

The scenario where I find less appropriate is customising the reports. This should be made easier, like drag and drop of tables to create a custom report.
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...
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