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We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and ScienceLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product's initial setup is easy."

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"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.""Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server.""ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard.""The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning.""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.""The solution provides good infra-monitoring features.""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.""When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."

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Cons
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."

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"One important area we feel could be improved is the UI. It takes a lot of clicks to do very simple tasks.""ScienceLogic should provide detailed documents to customer as the current documents are not sufficient.""Admins do not have direct access to the reporting.""They should add CLI command modes​ and scripts for high performance.""They need a little more self-service.""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 product must educate its strategic partners for deployment.""They should improve their support process and add chat."

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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:The product's initial setup is easy.
    Top Answer:Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings.
    Top Answer:I use Instana Infrastructure Monitoring in my company for monitoring purposes.
    Top Answer:The solution provides good infra-monitoring features.
    Top Answer:ScienceLogic comes with a good price. I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
    Top Answer:The user interface could be improved. The sizing and footprints of the central environment need improvement, too. The solution lacks functionality. The main issue is the granularity of user… more »
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    Overview

    Instana ensures that your application delivery organization has the data, visibility and information they need to manage the performance of critical business applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Built to handle the dynamic nature of containerized, microservice architectures, Instana automates infrastructure and application monitoring helping you to ensure the performance and quality of custom applications and accelerate your CI/CD cycle.

    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
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    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
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider42%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Transportation Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise69%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 30th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 1 review while ScienceLogic is ranked 12th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 41 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.0, while ScienceLogic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "A reasonably stable and scalable tool for monitoring purposes with an easy initial setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with Zabbix, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Amazon CloudWatch, Checkmk and Opsview, whereas ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and Zabbix.

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