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."
"Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content."
"Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique."
"The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning."
"The solution provides good infra-monitoring features."
"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."
"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."
"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."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"SolarWinds NPM provides an overview of network monitoring, extending its capabilities to cover other aspects, such as virtual machines and servers. The platform has features like NetPath, which is particularly beneficial for end-users, offering insights into issues like latency, packet loss, and connectivity problems with routers, switches, or servers."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They need a little more self-service."
"They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers."
"We want to understand: how does the back end work? What if some problem occurs? What we can do? They need to provide more information."
"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."
"They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance."
"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."
"It was challenging onboarding users."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"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."
"It is not that stable. As a Windows software, I have seen issues with SolarWinds. The performance is slow."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
"The solution could be more secure."
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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