Novell Operations Center [EOL] vs ScienceLogic comparison

Operations Center monitors, maps and measures complex infrastructures and mission-critical services. Operations Center is the only solution on the market built on an architecture that leverages current management investments, optimizes data center resources, provides flexibility to manage new technologies and offers a business-centric view of technologies in the data center. With Operations Center, you can choose the starting point from which to build your business service management initiative.

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.”