Lenovo XClarity Controller vs ScienceLogic comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Lenovo XClarity Controller
Ranking in Server Monitoring
15th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ScienceLogic
Ranking in Server Monitoring
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
42
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (5th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Network Monitoring Software (14th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (12th), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th), AIOps (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of Lenovo XClarity Controller is 4.9%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScienceLogic is 3.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Server Monitoring
Unique Categories:
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Event Monitoring
7.0%
 

Featured Reviews

Leandro-Coelho - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2022
Quick scaling, easy to use, and useful mobile management
XClarity Controller is suitable for management because the solution sends alerts about what problems can happen and how to solve problems in performance security, or reliability The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly…
Sreekta Mohapatra - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 13, 2022
Granular discovery, good integration, with responsive and available support
I didn't work much on ScienceLogic, but I was completely involved in the integration and transition of the product, as well as meeting with management and discussing the product. In addition, I have worked as a visual contributor to discover devices and communicate with the networking team about how to come up with solutions. Aside from all of this, there are limitations. When I mentioned limitations, one of the things I mentioned was application monitoring. However, if I talk about infrastructure monitoring, as I previously stated, I would prefer to use ScienceLogic as an infrastructure monitoring tool. When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, we have options such as Windows, and Windows environments. Each and every customer will have their own Windows 80 servers, as well as their own active directory and other Windows-based servers. When it comes to Windows-based servers, ScienceLogic suggests using PowerShell to monitor them. PowerShell configuration, resource groups, and so on are not simple. Because, when you first start using PowerShell to monitor, you must manually configure all of these things by logging into the server, because PowerShell is not always configured. PowerShell has not been updated. PowerShell has some issues that you must troubleshoot. Believe me, I literally worked to discover approximately 12,000 Windows devices within the previous company around the world. When I first tried to discover it using normal discovery, it only found about 5,000 devices. Where exactly are 5,000 and 12,000? I literally had to work on each and every one of those 7,000 devices to figure out why it wasn't being discovered. When it comes to Windows monitoring, we must plan ahead of time before we begin discovering devices. We must have knowledge of where the devices are and what exactly the legacy servers are, can just get rid of those legacy servers, what are the active directory servers, and how many active directory servers are there. When we talk about Linux, Unix, AIX, and these devices, your storage devices, and network devices have little trouble. However, if you want to find these Windows-related devices, you must plan ahead of time. This was one of the issues I encountered. 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 may try to start a monitoring application at some point. At the same time, it should have some automation options, such as the ability to automate events. Though it has, it does not have inside the box; however, we will need to do some scripting and other things to automate things. Perhaps it could include some within-the-box automation that can assist us in consolidating events or taking action on the consolidated events within ScienceLogic.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management."
"When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."
"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."
"Power packs."
"Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content."
"I'm satisfied with ScienceLogicfor for what they can offer today because they can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity."
"The best feature is the highly flexible graphs."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."
 

Cons

"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."
"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors."
"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."
"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."
"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."
"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."
"ScienceLogic should provide detailed documents to customer as the current documents are not sufficient."
"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."
"They need a little more self-service."
"The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."
"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."
"It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."
"My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Media Company
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
18%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Lenovo XClarity Controller?
The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts.
What needs improvement with Lenovo XClarity Controller?
They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information.
What is your primary use case for Lenovo XClarity Controller?
We use Lenovo XClarity Controller for monitoring applications, contributing to delivering expected results to clients. In hardware management tasks, the focus is maintaining current firmware versio...
What do you like most about ScienceLogic?
The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?
My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?
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.
 

Also Known As

XClarity Controller, Lenovo XCC
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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
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