We performed a comparison between ScienceLogic and SolarWinds Network Device Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network 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."
"The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning."
"Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique."
"ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."
"The best feature is the highly flexible graphs."
"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."
"The power flow is great."
"This product proactively tells us about issues before the users notice."
"The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting."
"The deployment process is quick."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"In terms of general network monitoring features, I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor very flexible and comfortable to use. The software itself is extremely useful when it comes to monitoring how our data moves between different networks and environments."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is it can alert you when a device is not working."
"I like the mapping that you could do and the dashboards were very pretty."
"I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."
"They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers."
"ScienceLogic should provide detailed documents to customer as the current documents are not sufficient."
"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."
"It was challenging onboarding users."
"There are often bugs in new releases."
"Admins do not have direct access to the reporting."
"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."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor lacks the granularity of other monitoring tools like LiveNX."
"There is no mobile version of this product, and our team should be able to access it using a mobile device."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve the features. We don't have the complete model for the database, and the monitoring for the database is up and down. We expect that we could monitor the blocking items on the database but we don't have that feature."
"In terms of price, it could be less expensive."
"The reporting feature needs improvement because we are unable to configure reports that were included during initial implementation."
"The way they are presenting the map of our devices needs to be improved."
"Although I haven't explored all of the features available, I wouldn't mind if the software were made to be a bit more customizable."
"The security could always be improved."
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ScienceLogic is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 42 reviews while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is ranked 42nd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. ScienceLogic is rated 8.6, while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor writes "An elaborate solution that fully integrates for easy monitoring and troubleshooting". ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and Zabbix, whereas SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is most compared with FortiMonitor, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), ThousandEyes, Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Motadata Network Management System. See our ScienceLogic vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor report.
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