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BigPanda vs Sumo Logic Observability comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
BigPanda surpasses Netcool in efficiency, reducing resources and enhancing incident resolution and recovery times for heavy users.
Sentiment score
7.0
Sumo Logic Observability improved operational efficiency, reduced downtime, and provided better issue resolution, visibility, stability, and proactive IT management.
BigPanda offers significant time-saving, cost-saving, and resource-saving benefits.
Technical Lead
BigPanda saves time with its advanced features and manages large environments while requiring fewer resources compared to our previous tool, Netcool.
Software Engineer at Trianz
Resource count has probably reduced by about ten to twenty percent due to the reduced incident count, which enables me to identify issues faster, meaning business recovery is quicker.
Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
BigPanda's support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite occasional delays, with some users noting communication issues.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sumo Logic Observability's customer service is highly rated, with quick responses and helpful support, particularly for advanced and OpenTelemetry issues.
If BigPanda can consistently provide such competent contacts, I would rate the support ten out of ten, otherwise, it is an eight out of ten.
Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Companies like CoreLogix, which is a log platform, achieve ten out of ten due to their responsiveness.
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
For technical support, we have only had to address password resets and alert mismatching.
Technical Lead
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
BigPanda efficiently scales across environments, managing numerous alerts and servers, with high ratings despite occasional peak-time delays.
Sentiment score
7.3
Sumo Logic Observability scales efficiently for diverse users, handling peak records with ease, supported by Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.
It handles large volumes of alerts without limitations.
We manage a large environment with over 50,000 servers and various monitoring tools like Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, and Datadog.
Software Engineer at Trianz
I rate the scalability of BigPanda at eight.
Manager Observability at ICE
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
BigPanda is stable with slight slowdowns; users request intuitive features, appreciate communication, and note improved stability and task management.
Sentiment score
8.8
Sumo Logic Observability is highly reliable, with users experiencing no issues and rating its reliability a perfect ten for enterprises.
BigPanda is now stable.
I would rate the availability of BigPanda at nine because it's almost 99.99% available.
Manager Observability at ICE
However, when handling critical traffic, the BigPanda site can slow down, which we manage with a load balancer.
Software Engineer at Trianz
 

Room For Improvement

BigPanda requires AI enhancements, bug fixes, improved usability, expanded features, and better integration to address cost and performance issues.
The system requires efficiency improvements in data usage, cost management, enrichment, search interface, query speed, and pre-built dashboards.
A 'deep dive' analysis feature would be appreciated to give detailed insights such as CPU usage and disk space analysis.
It would be beneficial if BigPanda leveraged AI to solve critical issues related to editing and sending alerts based on enrichment mapping files.
Software Engineer at Trianz
If BigPanda could integrate AI, it would enhance the platform significantly by offering chatbot functionality within the BigPanda UI.
Engineer - Cloud and Infrastructure Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

BigPanda offers competitive pricing and flexible licensing, benefiting high-growth companies with potential costs reaching $200,000 annually.
<p>Sumo Logic Observability provides flexible, competitive pricing for enterprises, but additional costs may apply for advanced features and high data volumes.</p>
The pricing for BigPanda is reasonable compared to other event management tools, given its advantages.
Software Engineer at Trianz
There are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to resource investment in maintaining the dashboards for these capabilities.
Director Of Engineering at Broadcom Inc.
 

Valuable Features

BigPanda enhances incident management with AI-driven analysis, reducing response times via integration and alert consolidation for improved reliability.
Sumo Logic Observability offers real-time alerting, apps, team collaboration, easy integration, and a flexible query language, boosting incident resolution.
Its automation has significantly improved incident response times, reducing the process to within one minute.
It can correlate multiple issues within a single device, create a single incident, and thus reduce noise and provide faster resolution.
Manager Observability at ICE
BigPanda improves service reliability with instant resolution, increased uptime, and reduced mean time to resolution, thus enhancing service quality.
Technical Lead
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Ranking in AIOps
9th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (22nd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (10th)
Sumo Logic Observability
Ranking in AIOps
23rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (47th), Cloud Monitoring Software (33rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the AIOps category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 2.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sumo Logic Observability is 2.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AIOps Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BigPanda2.8%
Sumo Logic Observability2.0%
Other95.2%
AIOps
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
Automated incident workflows have reduced alert noise and now improve response efficiency
In my opinion, the best feature of BigPanda is its speed in terms of deployment. It has very strong integration with all of the major platforms and workflows that organizations need. The biggest customers are enterprises like HSBC and Barclays. Implementing something effective for them that dramatically reduces meantime to repair and the number of incidents is substantially difficult, as projects can often extend three years with very small results. BigPanda is different; it is a tool relied on by many enterprises, fitting over existing toolsets rather than trying to replace them, which makes it non-competitive to many existing alerts and monitoring tools. It enhances existing systems to provide actionable intelligence for business solutions.
Shamshir Nangla - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at LHV Bank
Getting up and running is easy, even for a newbie but management of searches definitely needs improvement
Operational effectiveness with regards to when there's an issue, when there's a reactive issue, people are able to, or as well as proactively, actually, because we use their PagerDuty integrations. We use queries in Sumo Logic to trigger alerts based on logging. That allows us to proactively identify issues as they're happening. With those same alerts, obviously, with that platform, you can use it to reactively start looking at troubleshooting issues as they're happening right then and there or incidents. So it's been very, very good for alerting and for troubleshooting issues. For predicting issues before they happen, it is not very good. They have a feature called anomaly detection, but I think it's quite premature compared to other stuff out there. So it's good for alerts and for troubleshooting operational effectiveness. When your operations are down or segregated, it's perfect because it will help you diagnose the issues.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Retailer
5%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise12
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?
Regarding extra expenses, I pay more for communication and do not incur costs for another dashboard perspective, but there are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to re...
What needs improvement with BigPanda?
Something that comes to mind regarding improvements is communication, as I rely heavily on another tool. If BigPanda could provide communication capabilities beyond just sending notifications—such ...
What needs improvement with Sumo Logic Observability?
The speed of queries could be improved. When using more advanced functions, especially with large datasets like the 90-day log retention we had, queries could be slow, sometimes taking up to five m...
What is your primary use case for Sumo Logic Observability?
We used it for log observability – log aggregation specifically.
What advice do you have for others considering Sumo Logic Observability?
I would advise to have a demo with them to understand the pricing. Sumo Logic Observability used to charge per data ingest, but now they charge by queries, making it difficult to estimate the cost ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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