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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

ScienceLogic and InfluxDB compete in the IT monitoring and management category. ScienceLogic appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive customization and comprehensive support.

Features:ScienceLogic offers customization and integration, allowing tailored dashboards and monitoring solutions. It includes multi-tenancy and event management, enhancing flexibility for diverse IT environments. InfluxDB provides exceptional time-series database capabilities, integrates well with Grafana, and offers ease of use for querying time-series data.

Room for Improvement:ScienceLogic needs to improve its user interface and reporting features, including more comprehensive documentation and support for newer integrations. InfluxDB should focus on enhancing handling of high-cardinality data and improving backup solutions, as well as increasing Chronograf’s visualization capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:ScienceLogic is primarily on-premises with excellent customer support and thorough problem-solving. InfluxDB offers both on-premises and hybrid options, with generally well-received customer service, though it may lack the depth of ScienceLogic’s support.

Pricing and ROI:ScienceLogic has flexible pricing based on devices and features, potentially costly for enterprise use, but offers positive ROI by reducing downtime. InfluxDB provides a cost-effective open-source model with straightforward pricing, although scaling and enterprise features have incurred higher costs recently.

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Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

27th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

26th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Non-Relational Databases (2nd), Open Source Databases (9th), NoSQL Databases (5th)

ScienceLogic

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

26th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

18th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (6th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Server Monitoring (12th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (15th), AIOps (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of InfluxDB is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScienceLogic is 1.7%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ScienceLogic	1.7%
InfluxDB	0.6%
Other	97.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

DeepakR

Site Reliability Engineer(Observability) at Sapiens

An open-source database that can be used to insert data

InfluxDB is generally stable, but we've encountered issues with the configuration file in our ticket stack. For instance, a mistake in one of the metrics out of a hundred KPIs can disrupt data collection for all KPIs. This happens because the agent stops working if there's an issue with any configuration part. To address this, it is essential to ensure that all configurations are part of the agent's EXE file when provided. This makes it easier to package the agent for server installation and ensures all KPIs are available from the server. Additionally, the agent cannot encrypt and decrypt passwords for authentication, which can be problematic when monitoring URLs or requiring authentication tokens. This requires additional scripting and can prolong service restart times.

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Michael Wenn

CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd

Offers comprehensive monitoring and tool consolidation but integration complexity needs improvement

There is room for improvement in the speed of setting up the service and integrating PowerPacks. Although these prebuilt features are great, there is considerable complexity in bringing them together to create a unified dashboard. Even with many good integrations and deep visibility, the implementation takes time, especially when it doesn't involve these integrations. While some other companies have easier APIs, using this solution demands significant expertise. It's challenging for new customers to implement independently. The implementation speed of non-PowerPack or non-out-of-the-box integrations should be improved. Additionally, the AI automation feature is not yet very rich due to resource constraints supporting a wide platform.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"While I would rate InfluxDB a ten on a scale of one to ten, users should be thoughtful about matching the engine to their specific needs."

"The platform operates very quickly. It is easy to configure, connect, and query and integrates seamlessly with Grafana."

"The most valuable features are aggregating the data and integration with Graphana for monitoring."

"The most valuable features of InfluxDB are the documentation and performance, and the good plugins metrics in the ecosystem."

"InfluxDB works as expected with excellent scalability and stability, which is critical for our application."

"InfluxDB reduced my time to show data without any interruption, also reducing the number of people needed to manage the project; it is very good to have InfluxDB in my project."

"In our case, it started with a necessity to fill the gap that we had in monitoring. We had very reactive monitoring without trend analysis and without some advanced features. We were able to implement them by using a time series database. We are able to have all the data from applications, logs, and systems, and we can use a simple query language to correlate all the data and make things happen, especially with monitoring. We could more proactively monitor our systems and our players' trends."

"The user interface is well-designed and easy to use. It provides a clear overview of the data, making it simple to understand the information at hand."

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"Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product."

"The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support."

"Power packs."

"Since it is a SaaS-based product, the setup is not very difficult."

"The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning."

"Provides agentless monitoring so there's no need to install the agent on each server."

"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards."

"Best feature of all is detailed monitoring of services, processes, ports and SSL certificates and or web content."

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Cons

"In terms of features that I would like to see or have, in the community version, some features are not available. I would like to have clustering and authentication in the community version."

"I've tried both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, and each has its limitations."

"The solution's UI can be more user-friendly."

"InfluxDB is generally stable, but we've encountered issues with the configuration file in our ticket stack. For instance, a mistake in one of the metrics out of a hundred KPIs can disrupt data collection for all KPIs. This happens because the agent stops working if there's an issue with any configuration part. To address this, it is essential to ensure that all configurations are part of the agent's EXE file when provided. This makes it easier to package the agent for server installation and ensures all KPIs are available from the server. Additionally, the agent cannot encrypt and decrypt passwords for authentication, which can be problematic when monitoring URLs or requiring authentication tokens. This requires additional scripting and can prolong service restart times."

"One area for improvement is the querying language. InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying."

"The interface of InfluxDB is so complex and should be made easier for non-technical people."

"It is challenging to get long-running backups while running InfluxDB in a Microsoft Azure Kubernetes cluster."

"The error logging capability can be improved because the logs are not very informative."

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"The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"They need a little more self-service."

"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."

"Admins do not have direct access to the reporting."

"They should add CLI command modes and scripts for high performance."

"There are often bugs in new releases."

"Integrating observability and APM monitoring into the overall portfolio would be beneficial."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"InfluxDB is open-source, but there are additional costs for scaling."

"InfluxDB recently increased its price. It is very expensive now."

"The tool is an open-source product."

"We are using the open-source version of InfluxDB."

"My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price."

"The solution is license-based. It's between $8 and $15, depending on what you need from the product."

"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."

"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."

"Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow."

"The license of ScienceLogic is based on how many endpoints are used. The number of monitoring points you want to have."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about InfluxDB?

InfluxDB is a database where you can insert data. However, it would be best if you had different components for alerting, data sending, and visualization. You need to install tools to collect data ...

What needs improvement with InfluxDB?

It is challenging to get long-running backups while running InfluxDB in a Microsoft Azure Kubernetes cluster. Replicating data for on-prem development and testing is difficult. Having a SQL abstrac...

What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?

InfluxDB is the main component in our large enterprise-scale streaming data application for maritime vessels. We collect position data from vessels around the coast once per second, put it on a Kaf...

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?

ScienceLogic is not that expensive and is cost-effective overall.

What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?

I am interested in improving the flexibility of ScienceLogic's user interface, configuration, and customization. I am particularly keen on learning about issues raised by the ScienceLogic support t...

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Overview

InfluxDB is open-source software that helps developers and enterprises alike to collect, store, process, and visualize time series data and to build next-generation applications. InfluxDB provides monitoring and insight on IoT, application, system, container, and infrastructure quickly and easily without complexities or compromises in scale, speed, or productivity.

InfluxDB has become a popular insight system for unified metrics and events enabling the most demanding SLAs. InfluxDB is used in just about every type of industry across a wide range of use cases, including network monitoring, IoT monitoring, industrial IoT, and infrastructure and application monitoring.

InfluxDB offers its users:

Infrastructure and application monitoring: Collect, process, and analyze real-time data from edge devices to help optimize distributed infrastructure.

IoT monitoring and analytics: InfluxDB is designed to store large volumes of time series data and quickly perform real-time analysis on that data. Gain insights from all the sensor data and use the collected data to create and perform automated tasks.

Network monitoring: Manage responsive and high-performing networks with widely distributed resources.

InfluxDB Benefits

There are several benefits to using InfluxDB . Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

APIs and ready toolset: InfluxDB can be accessed via a set of powerful tools enabling users to get started quickly, with less programming required. This includes a REST API, extensive client libraries, a wide variety of open-source integrations, and Flux - a functional data scripting language for querying, analysis, and events. The InfluxDB API can be used to write data from edge devices to the InfluxDB instance

Time series engine: Get any data - events, logs, traces - from any edge device - systems, sensors, queues, databases, and networks. This data is stored in a powerful and high-performing engine capable of ingesting millions of data points per second.

Community: InfluxDB has a large community of cloud and open-source developers ready to assist users.

Ready-made templates: Use InfluxDB Templates, a set of tools with a packager and other ready monitoring solutions. These tools allow users to share their monitoring expertise with coworkers and other community members around the world. The Templates gallery offers available templates for some of the most popular tools and applications.

Enhanced UI: InfluxDB’s UI includes an explorer, dashboarding tools, and a script editor. Use it to easily browse the collected metric and event data and apply common transformations. The dashboarding tool comes with a variety of visualization options that help users view insights from the data. The script editor assists users to quickly master Flux with easily accessible examples, auto-completion, and real-time syntax checking.

Reviews from Real Users

InfluxDB stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its data aggregation feature.

Shalauddin Ahamad S., a software engineer at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features are aggregating the data and the integration with Grafana for monitoring.”

InfluxData

ScienceLogic excels in customizable dashboards, seamless integrations, and real-time data analysis, supporting diverse IT environments with multi-tenant capabilities.

ScienceLogic provides robust infrastructure and network monitoring, catering to cloud, applications, and server environments. It supports hybrid setups, integrating with CMDB and ticketing systems while automating incident management. ScienceLogic's PowerPacks eliminate visibility gaps and its adaptable nature supports modern and legacy systems. Offering agentless monitoring, it ensures efficient operations with scalable infrastructure support and detailed reporting. However, the interface complexity and need for professional support can present usability challenges. Enhancements in reporting, application coverage, API support, and customization are desirable for improved user experience.

What are ScienceLogic's most important features?

Customizable Dashboards: Tailor views for precise monitoring across different environments.
PowerPacks: Extensive device integrations reduce visibility gaps.
Real-time Data Analysis: Enables quick decision-making with up-to-date insights.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with multiple platforms to unify IT systems.
Adaptive Infrastructure: Supports both modern and legacy systems with ease.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Automates event management and simplifies monitoring tasks.
Scalable Support: Grows with the organizational needs, accommodating larger infrastructures.
Comprehensive Reports: Provides complete oversight for informed strategic planning.
Enhanced Adaptability: Unifies diverse technological environments efficiently.

ScienceLogic is often implemented across industries requiring detailed attention to infrastructure and network monitoring. It finds utility in managing hybrid environments, integrating seamlessly with essential systems like CMDB and ticketing platforms. Its scalability and adaptability are valued in unifying complex, diverse environments under one monitoring platform.

Sample Customers

ebay, AXA, Mozilla, DiDi, LeTV, Siminars, Cognito, ProcessOut, Recommend, CATS, Smarsh, Row 44, Clustree, Bleemeo

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