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ScienceLogic - One Monitoring tool to rule them all
February 20, 2017

ScienceLogic - One Monitoring tool to rule them all

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic EM7 is being used by our organization to monitor our IT infrastructure, from systems, network devices, storage, VMs, cloud instances, URL addresses, and more. Monitoring of critical applications allows for proactive solutions rather than reactive.
  • Web-based application. No need to install client software on every system
  • Uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to talk to systems and collect data
  • Quick, robust, and not as costly as competing monitoring software
  • SSL handshake errors in current version makes it difficult to create functional web content checks. Also does not resolve content checks for websites using encryption higher than TLSv1.0. Promised to be resolved in the next versioning.
  • When taking snapshots of top CPU processes of a system, the metrics are not always accurate or are missing. A graph would be great for this feature to see the changes in CPU % over time, rather than at a discrete point where the time measured may have already stabilized.
  • Web-based, so easily accessible from anywhere
  • Easy to navigate and use. Performance data and metrics for reporting is made simple
  • Fast, low-cost implementation, and low maintenance makes it a no-brainer
Of all the monitoring tools I've used at various jobs, ScienceLogic has been the most steady, easy-to-learn, and cost-effective product. CA Spectrum seemed to work better for network equipment. NetIQ was costly, slow, and required a lot of maintenance. System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft's monitoring implementation. Although readily available as part of Microsoft's package, it was also labor-intensive.
For a cost-effective monitoring solution, ScienceLogic is as good as it gets. Our previous monitoring tool, NetIQ, was too expensive, and did not seem as robust as ScienceLogic. There were too many components, an agent would need to be deployed on every host, and the performance was not as great. One area where it did excel at was in creating web recordings, which ScienceLogic does not have natively, but using APIs can be integrated.