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We performed a comparison between Azure Cost Management and ScienceLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The advisor recommendations feature is the most valuable feature. It helps set your environment in a clean state.""The most valuable feature is that it helps us to better forecast and reduce costs.""I like the fact that you can set alerts on the predicted cost in Azure Cost Management.""Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals.""The resource forecasting feature is invaluable. Secondly, the ability to drill down to the regional and resource level is incredibly helpful for pinpointing where my costs are accruing.""Our customers use it and like it.""I like the granularity of the tools.""The most valuable features of Azure Cost Management are the ability to set standards or tagging policies and initiatives. You can achieve higher cost optimization."

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"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server.""The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning.""Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content.""One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards.""The solution provides good infra-monitoring features.""The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.""It has good monitoring capabilities across cloud environments, data centers, and hybrid environments.""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."

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Cons
"What would make Azure Cost Management better is a more flexible GUI that would allow users to provide more input. Another area for improvement in the solution is its reporting. The report it provides should be easy to understand.""Azure Cost Management is expensive.""The dashboard could be improved.""The tool's pricing should be made cheaper.""Azure Cost Management should be made cheaper.""The policy-based remediation is probably the biggest area where Azure is lacking and that's why we sell a lot of our technology to our customers.""We would like to see more flexibility added to this solution, such as being able to compare reservations, or compare costs across multiple financial years and report on the reasons for deviation in spend.""The product's licensing cost could be improved."

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"I would like to see out-of-the-box standard dashboards for common services.""The product is not user-friendly.""ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier.""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.""ScienceLogic does not have application monitoring. We definitely need something integrated within ScienceLogic to monitor applications so that we don't have to rely on monitoring tools to monitor other applications. At least the ones that are market leaders, such as SAP, Oracle, and others.""The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required.""From a performance perspective, it needs to improve a lot."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's free out of the box."
  • "I think the solution was free initially."
  • "Based on the transitional cost we charge, it's not expensive, but could be better."
  • "The solution is free. It's part of having an Azure subscription."
  • "I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
  • "I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
  • "Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
  • "The tool's pricing is yearly."
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  • "Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device."
  • "Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow."
  • "Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."
  • "It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."
  • "Its price could be lower, but for what you pay, you got a lot of value from its features and functionalities. Customers always want a discount or a cheaper solution."
  • "The pricing model for ScienceLogic could improve."
  • "The solution is license-based. It's between $8 and $15, depending on what you need from the product."
  • "I'm not the best person to discuss pricing, but what I do know is that it's a use-and-go structure. You use this much storage and pay this much for it. That's how it is. Every time, we continue to add a large amount of data to the environment."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
    Top Answer:The product comes free. There is no cost associated with the product.
    Top Answer:The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
    Top Answer:My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
    Top Answer:The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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    Overview

    Azure Cost Management empowers organizations to monitor cloud spend, drive organizational accountabilities, and optimize cloud efficiency so they can accelerate future cloud investments with confidence.

    ScienceLogic is a hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring tool that is designed to help organizations digitally transform their companies by making the management of complex, distributed IT services easier. Using the solution’s discovery techniques, users can find everything they need in a network, gaining visibility across all vendors and technologies that are run in the cloud or data centers. In addition, the ScienceLogic solution can help users seamlessly monitor and manage cloud environments, monitor network resources, manage storage, and monitor app health and performance.

    By implementing ScienceLogic, organizations can:

    • Act on data that is shared across technologies and IT ecosystems in real time.
    • Apply multi-directional integrations to automate workflows at cloud scale.
    • View 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.
    • Understand the impact of infrastructure and applications on business service health and risk.
    • Accelerate root cause analysis and execute recommended actions.

    ScienceLogic Features

    ScienceLogic has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Visibility
    • Collaboration
    • Monitor internet of things
    • Monitor key applications
    • Storage management
    • Bandwidth monitoring
    • CPU monitoring
    • Virtual machine monitoring
    • Video conference monitoring
    • IP address monitoring
    • Data migration
    • Prevent unused capacity
    • Monitor public and private cloud
    • Monitor services
    • View performance of server environment

    ScienceLogic Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing ScienceLogic. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Single console: ScienceLogic allows you to monitor the performance of services, apps, and other resources - whether they are private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud - from a single console. In addition, the solution makes it possible for you to also contextualize the resources and determine dependencies.
    • Spot unused resources: With ScienceLogic’s platform, you can spot unused resources so you can decommission them or distribute them to avoid congestion.
    • Unified view of interdependencies: ScienceLogic is capable of mapping relationships between infrastructure components and storage environments, giving users a unified view of the interdependencies. This enables users to determine the root causes of problems that come from their storage assets.
    • Easier app health and performance monitoring: ScienceLogic can help you identify components of apps that are vital to business operation, apply the best practice monitoring policies to well-known applications, and track where infrastructures are deployed.
    • Voice, video, and collaboration capabilities: ScienceLogic makes it easy for you to monitor call quality, collaboration stack, and endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the ScienceLogic solution.

    A Senior Infrastructure Architect says, “ScienceLogic can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity. The stability of ScienceLogic is great.”

    A Senior Consultant at a tech services company mentions, “It is very easy to configure because we are using an agent-less version. You can very quickly implement a collector for monitoring device servers.”

    Sample Customers
    Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware
    Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Pharma/Biotech Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Healthcare Company5%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider42%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Transportation Company8%
    Media Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Azure Cost Management is ranked 2nd in Cloud Cost Management with 41 reviews while ScienceLogic is ranked 13th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 42 reviews. Azure Cost Management is rated 8.0, while ScienceLogic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Cost Management writes "A good, but limited cost information solution with strong analytics but requiring more flexibility in its reporting functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". Azure Cost Management is most compared with IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, AWS Savings Plans, Cloudability and Zabbix, whereas ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and ServiceNow Discovery.

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