In a world of shiny objects and hip new projects, ScienceLogic is a blast from the past.
Updated June 26, 2020
In a world of shiny objects and hip new projects, ScienceLogic is a blast from the past.
Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with ScienceLogic SL1
Used to monitor servers, network, and application. It is mainly used by IT only. Application monitoring proved to be difficult, so most of that has been written in-house or leverages other monitoring tools and events are sent to ScienceLogic.
- The platform has been relatively stable. As far as I know no outages outside of upgrades.
- The platform has good out of the box support for common enterprise platforms like VMWare and Pure Storage.
- It provides a nice event viewer for a single page displaying all events happening in your environment.
- The point in time nature of the data points can be misleading. The data would be more valuable in some cases if the 5 minute polling interval was an average value of the previous 5 minutes, not point in time when the collection happens.
- Container and Kubernetes monitoring is poor. Granted we are a few months behind of upgrades, so haven't been able to try out the latest versions.
- Snippet development within the platform is not ideal. There really needs to be a way to source snippets from Git repositories, so code can be versioned and tested outside of the platform.
- Testing snippets outside of the platform can be challenging. We would really like to have some mock test framework we could pull into our testing suite so unit testing complex snippets is easier.
- I haven't seen any positive ROI from using ScienceLogic
- The negative ROI is because we went from using in house and free monitoring tools to an expensive tool that provides very little addition features.
No change/No improvement
New products and business growth. Attempted to rewrite existing in house monitoring tool's monitors and the level of difficulty is high and is still in progress to just reach parity. Attempting to use SL for Kubernetes monitoring. Requires also using Grafana and Prometheus as primary monitoring system due to SL's inadequacies.
The SL API is good which makes it easy to integrate with. As far as I know, no workflows or processes have been automated using SL.
- Using it as a single event viewer to aggregate other monitors and alerts into one tool.
We didn't evaluate any other tools as far as I'm aware