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ScienceLogic SL1

Overview

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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ScienceLogic SL1

8 out of 10
September 11, 2023
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ScienceLogic SL1 Review: Provides Integration Flexibility When Managing Large Volume of Devices
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sciencelogic.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • 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 Videos

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Basic server monitoring is an easy win for the platform. Powerpacks make it easy to monitor different platforms with events predefined and included. However, the system does not do well with near real-time polling. For instance, if you were monitoring uplinks on switches, you'd be best to poll at 5 minutes or more. The system would struggle if you try to monitor every minute.
September 20, 2019

ScienceLogic - Thumbs Up

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic could help with application monitoring. ScienceLogic's EM7 really helps with issues and ticketing. It is very easy to use and manage. Its feature are very easy to use. Failover is simple. However, we have experienced split-brain issues a few times. We hope this area could be improved in the future.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have a large network like ours, spanned across different data centers and locations, then this product does really well in terms of monitoring and providing useful information and statuses. on the opposite end of that stick, having a lot of devices can sometimes mean clunky reporting. This is why we ended up writing our own reporting tools. With that being said, this system does offer that flexibility!
Britton Starr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sciencelogic has an excellent monitoring platform if you are willing to put the hours into spinning it up and customizing it to suit your environment. It is a very powerful tool, but know that for every shiny dashboard you produce (and they are probably amongst the best on the market without question) a lot of backend work has been done to produce it. It isn't the most user-friendly interface, but a technically savvy engineer will be able to use it to make a borderline irreplaceable asset for your organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have a large number of customers/locations and they employ vastly different types of technologies that all are required to be monitored by the same team, then ScienceLogic is a very good tool to do it all in one place. Due to its platform, it also scales extremely well and has a lot of features to allow mass management of devices using automation and templates.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's the best monitoring tool for the enterprise network. but has a limitation when want to use it for virtualized environments like VM ware, Citrix.
In an enterprise network, we can configure it to monitor every end device to collect more granular data. but monitoring the virtualization systems has some limitations like we can't monitor the virtual switch between two VM's hosted on the same physical machine.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It seems to be better suited for smaller environments as oppose to large ones. The user interface could be much improved with simple quality of life improvements. It has too much of a "engineering" feel to it.
August 06, 2019

Proceed with caution

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic might be a good fit if the current capabilities closely align with your requirements. If you are specifically interested in any of their roadmap improvements then you might want to consider other options.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Below are the scenarios where it's suited:
- monitoring the Linux/Windows server.
- monitoring networking components like switches.
- monitor various services in cloud accounts.

Below are the scenarios where it's not suited:
- paid product.
- not a lot of information in online forums other than that of the product itself.
- support takes time for replies.
July 17, 2019

Outdated and Clunky

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is well suited for monitoring of network devices, but you can get a free product that does the same or better than ScienceLogic. The price of ScienceLogic would rule it out for me in the future. This software is drastically overpriced for the outdated system.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic is excellent at monitoring core infrastructure but is not intended for requirements such as network packet capture or application performance monitoring, or aggregation of alerts from a wide variety of other tools in the IT monitoring tool kit. ScienceLogic is also not intended to monitor or generate synthetic transactions that simulate real user behavior.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic is well suited when used to monitor Operating Systems (Windows and Linux) as well as Applications that support REST API. It will not be suited in scenarios when used against rarely used databases such as DB2 or IBM Machines (It may not be the case in future).
June 20, 2019

My thoughts

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would be reluctant because it seems a little bloated; some canned views would be nice. Example: If I install the VMWARE power pack can I have a vm dashboard view? CISO dashboard view, server dashboard view extra built in, now you have to make custom dashboards.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Within my company I work in the video conferencing support, ScienceLogic is great for reporting issues real time. this allows me to reach out to customers and resolve issues before users notice there is an issue. ScienceLogic is not great for reporting on immersive systems and would like to see support for this in the future.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic works alright for fairly simple environments with limited device counts.. However, once you begin to exceed 50,000 devices or very heavy network activity (Example: a data center cabinet full of network switches) the system quickly begins to show its limits. Nested groups (such as VMware) will lead to nothing but headaches and multi-week calls with ScienceLogic's support team. The absolute nail in the coffin is the manner in which Sciencelogic manages its licensing and auto-discovery features. ScienceLogic requires one license for each device, but the auto-discover functionality tends to run wild, spewing licenses (for which you are billed) as it skitters randomly through an environment. When we tested it against one of our hosted environments Sciencelogic consumed over 100 licenses, despite the fact that the environment only had around 50 actual devices within it.
Nicolai Kildal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ScienceLogic is especially well suited when dealing with:
  1. Multiple tenants - monitored by the same system.
  2. Large environments - the number of components being monitored is high.
  3. Complex environments - components are spanning multiple technologies (ie. network, storage, servers).
  4. Changing environments - there's a need to support changing/new device types.
  5. A need to automate as much as possible.
  6. A need to integrate with other systems.
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