We performed a comparison between ScienceLogic and SolarWinds NPM 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."
"Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."
"It has good monitoring capabilities across cloud environments, data centers, and hybrid environments."
"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."
"The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning."
"When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."
"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."
"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."
"ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"I love the GUI. Almost everything is accessible through the web interface. It is very user-friendly. It is easy to drag and drop resources wherever you want them."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."
"It was challenging onboarding users."
"Admins do not have direct access to the reporting."
"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."
"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."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"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's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
ScienceLogic is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 42 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network 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, Zabbix and ServiceNow Discovery, 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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