We performed a comparison between ScienceLogic and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"Its ITSM and EMS combination is really amazing. There is no need to purchase two products, one for ITSM and a second for EMS/NMS."
"ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard."
"Power packs."
"The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support."
"The flexibility to support most technologies. The way ScienceLogic gathers data from multiple sources is vital to our customers. As we work with new customers (often with different technology requirements), ScienceLogic is flexible enough to support our clients’ varying network needs."
"When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."
"I'm satisfied with ScienceLogicfor for what they can offer today because they can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity."
"The stability is fantastic."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box standard dashboards for common services."
"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."
"From a performance perspective, it needs to improve a lot."
"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."
"One important area we feel could be improved is the UI. It takes a lot of clicks to do very simple tasks."
"There are often bugs in new releases."
"It doesn't have the complete application-level topology. It could have service topology and business service monitoring. I would like to see how business service monitoring will function with agent-based installation, and how flexible and business-oriented it is for service modeling and service infrastructure. I have a lot of experience in using business service monitoring, service topology, and service hierarchy functionalities in similar products from BMC and Micro Focus (OpenView), and I want to see how these functionalities will look like in ScienceLogic."
"Addressing duplicate IPs: There is the ability to edit the DB and fix this, but adding some logic to understand them would be a plus."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"The evaluation time for the product is too short especially for large corporations."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
ScienceLogic is ranked 12th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 42 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. ScienceLogic is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Datadog, ServiceNow Discovery and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Meraki Dashboard. See our ScienceLogic vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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