LogicMonitor vs Nmap comparison

LogicMonitor and Nmap are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. LogicMonitor is ranked #23 with an average rating of 9.0, while Nmap is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7. LogicMonitor holds a 1.9% mindshare in NMS, compared to Nmap’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of LogicMonitor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nmap users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Nmap and LogicMonitor compete in the network management and monitoring domain. LogicMonitor stands out with its comprehensive monitoring features and analytics, despite Nmap's more favorable pricing.

Features: Nmap provides network discovery, security scanning, and vulnerability detection. It identifies active devices and scans open ports. LogicMonitor offers infrastructure monitoring, performance analytics, and alerting for various environments such as cloud services, servers, and applications.

Room for Improvement: Nmap could enhance its user interface and reporting capabilities, provide better integration options, and expand customer support. LogicMonitor might improve its cost structure, simplify its setup process, and offer more tailored solutions for smaller businesses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nmap's deployment is straightforward with a focus on command-line usage, requiring minimal support for tech-savvy users. LogicMonitor has a detailed setup process but offers comprehensive customer service to aid integration and management.

Pricing and ROI: Nmap is a free tool with high ROI for organizations focused on network scanning, minimizing initial setup costs. LogicMonitor, with higher initial costs, provides significant ROI through features that maintain and optimize IT infrastructure efficiently.

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Categories and Ranking

LogicMonitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

23rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (30th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (25th), Container Monitoring (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (18th), AIOps (12th)

Nmap

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of LogicMonitor is 1.9%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nmap is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Henry-Steinhauer

Systems Engineer at LifePoint Health

They have an active community of users who are willing to share their experiences and how they have extended the solution to do unusual things.

I'm a learn-by-example person, so it would be nice to have a cookbook for enterprise management. They have a rich API process, but there aren't many examples of how to do enterprise-style work. It is peculiar about how to do it for one device, but not necessarily thousands. LogicMonitor can effortlessly pull data from one item at a time. I have yet to find an excellent way to get LogicMonitor to show me all the WAN devices and how they're doing in terms of capacity.

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AntoSebastin

Cyber Security Consultant - APAC at Logon Software

Scans the network and identifies vulnerabilities on each machine

Nmap is mostly helpful during compliance checks. We run the scanner to see how many devices are on our network and find vulnerabilities in those that aren't compliant. We also use it monthly to scan our network and identify devices that aren't connected properly. This helps us detect any issues related to the operating systems of these devices. The tool's most valuable feature is its vulnerability scanning. It allows us to scan a specific range of IP addresses and discover devices within that range. This makes it easy to identify devices and view their details. Port scanning is crucial for network management tasks. It helps us identify vulnerabilities by finding open ports that may be unused or misconfigured. This tool makes it easy to detect such issues. The OS detection feature is great. Unlike other tools, Nmap provides accurate information about asset vulnerabilities, helping us easily detect and address them. Using Nmap provides value to the company, especially during compliance audits. It helps generate reports on assets, updates on workstations, and insights into network activities and potential attacks. Additionally, Nmap detects vulnerabilities and provides port details, allowing us to close unused ports on the client machines.

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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

"The alerting would be number one in my book. The thresholds for getting alerts for different criteria are pretty well-thought-out. We don't get many false positives or negatives on the alerting side. If we do get an email alert or some similar alert, we know that it is something that has to be looked at."

"The dashboarding is very useful. Being able to create custom data sources is one of its biggest features which allows quick time to market with new features. If one of our vendors changes their data format or metrics that we should be monitoring, then we can quickly adjust to any changes in the environment in order to get a great user experience for our customers."

"LogicMonitor saves time in terms of its ability to proxy a connection through a device. For example, if you are troubleshooting a device, which you may want to connect to, you can proxy this connection through the platform. As a support resource, I don't need to use multiple platforms to connect to a device to further investigate the issue. It is all consolidated. From that perspective, it saves time because a resource now only needs to use one platform."

"The breadth of its ability to monitor all our environments, putting it in one place, has been helpful. This way, we don't have to manage multiple tools and try to juggle multiple balls to keep our environment monitored. It presents a clear picture to us of what is going on."

"The dashboards are the big seller for us. When our customers can see those graphs and are able to interact with the data, that is valuable. They can easily adjust time ranges and the graphs display the data fast. We've used other tools in the past, where you'd say, "Hey, I want the last three months of data on a graph," and it would just sit there and crunch for five minutes before you'd actually see the data. With LogicMonitor, the fast reliability of those dashboards is huge."

"The concept of developing a dashboard template for ourselves, then cloning it for every single customer, and only having to change one piece of information, is a godsend. That's one of the strengths. We can develop a template that fits every customer and just change the information that is presented."

"We get full visibility into whatever the customer wants us to monitor and we get it pretty rapidly. That is very important. Only having certain metrics that other platforms will give you out-of-the-box means you only get a small picture, a thumbnail picture. Whereas with LogicMonitor, you get the entire "eight by 10 picture", out-of-the-box. Rather than some availability metrics, you get everything. You get metrics on temperature, anything related to hardware failure, or up and down status."

"The solution’s overall reporting capabilities are pretty powerful compared to ones that I have used previously. It seems like it has a lot of customizations that you can put in, but some of the out-of-the-box reports are useful too, like user logon duration and website latency. Those type of things have been helpful and don't require a lot of, if any, changes to get useful content out of them. They have also been pretty easy to implement and use."

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"Nmap has a powerful command line tool and a set of diagnostic features."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its scripts. These scripts prove beneficial when security features may obscure or block connections. Nmap helps identify vulnerabilities across different systems, including web servers and various server types."

"From a functionality standpoint, it's robust and straightforward to comprehend."

"The most valuable feature of the solution for security audits stems from the fact that it serves as a powerful tool with the ability to scan a large number of ports."

"Nmap is easy to use. It's a command-line interface, and the output is quite good."

"It is a very user-friendly product."

"Nmap is mostly helpful during compliance checks. We run the scanner to see how many devices are on our network and find vulnerabilities in those that aren't compliant. We also use it monthly to scan our network and identify devices that aren't connected properly. This helps us detect any issues related to the operating systems of these devices."

"It helps us secure the network infrastructure."

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Cons

"One thing I would like to see is parent/child relationships and the ability to build a "suppression parent/child." For example, If I know that a top gateway is offline and I can't talk to it anymore, and anything that's connected below it or to it is also going to be offline, there is no need to alarm on those. In that situation it should create one ticket or one alarm for the parent. I know they're working towards that with their mapping technology, but it's not quite to that level where you can build out alarm logic or a correlation logic like that."

"The only functional area I can think of that has room for improvement would be the dashboards. They could use a refresh. It would be nice if there were more widgets and more types of widgets."

"LogicMonitor should always improve AI because we are always striving for real intelligence. An additional feature we'd like to see in the next release of LogicMonitor is more in the area of identification of when the dominant workload is working. There are certain devices and applications that have cycles of their own. Some are used primarily during prime time, and some are used during the overnight timeframe, and better identification and classification of those workloads would be helpful. For example, we could then do some more planning about, for this particular set of devices, as it has a prime time environment, and we don't want to see a 24-hour average, as we want to see what is the 75th or 90th percentile utilization during the prime time when it is being used, whenever that prime time is."

"The ease of use with data source tuning could be improved. That can get hairy quickly. When I reach out for help, it's usually around a data source or event source configuration. That can get challenging."

"There is a lack of automation, especially in terms of remediating problems. The problem is seen and identified, but there is a need and a gap where LogicMonitor can help us automate the remediation of the problem."

"One of the areas that I sometimes find confusing is the way that the data is presented. For example, a couple of weeks back I was looking at bandwidth utilization. That's quite a difficult thing to present, but they should try to dumb down how the data is presented and simplify what they're presenting."

"One thing that could be really better is the mapping. Auvik is really good at it. They have a really nice way to give you a visual representation of your network, but in LogicMonitor, this functionality is not as powerful and as good as Auvik."

"We would like to see more functionality around mapping of topologies, in terms of networks. An improvement that we would like to see is added functionality to get more detail out of mapping. For example, if the LogicMonitor Collector identifies a connection between two network endpoints, it would be great to actually see which ports are connecting the two endpoints together. That functionality is something we greatly desire. It would actually make our documentation more dynamic in the sense that we wouldn't need to manually document. If this is something that the platform could provide, then this would be a great asset."

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"The solution should increase the number of features under a free license."

"The challenge often lies in finding suitable courses and professional resources."

"It takes a bit of time to get familiar with the solution and its options."

"The solution is not that easy for a beginner to learn."

"The price is high and could be cheaper."

"The tool's license limits the number of scans it can perform. Improving the license model could benefit customers by allowing more scans for compliance and other purposes."

"There are concerns with the stability of the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Since I started using Nmap, it has been completely based on the command prompt and I think it would help other users if they implemented a decent GUI as well."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of pricing, I would rate LogicMonitor four out of five."

"The licensing side of things with LogicMonitor, is quite simple. It is one license per device. Recently, you have additional licenses with things, like LM Cloud, which does confuse things a bit. Because it's very hard to estimate how many licenses you're going to need until you're monitoring it, so it's quite hard through that process to give a customer price to say, "This is how much this services will cost.""

"It definitely pays for itself in the amount of time we're not spending with false errors or things that we haven't quite dealt with monitoring. It has been good cost-wise."

"We have definitely seen ROI with LogicMonitor. We used to provide 24/7 IT support for our users. We have since been able to change to operating just within normal business hours for IT support, and LogicMonitor was a large part of being able to accomplish that."

"It can handle scaling. It is like any other cloud service. There is a cost associated with scaling, so we currently don't monitor all of our environments. We monitor just the customer-facing production environments. It would be nice if we could monitor our dominant environments, but we will have to pay a lot more due to the scaling issue. So, there's a balance there between what we would like and what we are willing to pay for."

"We pay for the enterprise tech support."

"As a managed services provider, the licensing model that LogicMonitor provides us is excellent. We are able to scale up and scale down as needed. The pricing is reasonable for the amount of features and support that they provide."

"They are expensive for the cloud."

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"Nmap is open source software, which suits us well because we are a manufacturing company and not an IT company, for example. If we were an IT company, we would probably need to pay for extra support or instead go for another software solution. But as it is, we don't have any need for high-end troubleshooting tools."

"Nmap is an open-source product. You don't need a license to install it."

"I am using the standard free version of Nmap."

"The product's pricing is fine. The licensing options for Nmap include perpetual licenses and volume-based licenses. For perpetual licenses, once you purchase it, there's no need to invest in renewals. And for volume-based licenses, enterprise companies can use it multiple times based on the number of users or devices they need to scan. It's a pay-as-you-go model, similar to how you pay for what you use."

"It's an open-source solution. Commerically, only the support service is available."

"It's an open-source product, and I haven't seen any premiums. Options are available for those who purchase, but for my use case, everything I need is available in the community and forums."

"The solution is free of cost, but there are specific services that we have to buy."

"The solution is free of cost."

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...

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What do you like most about LogicMonitor?

LogicMonitor helps us prevent potential downtime. It's pretty good. It generates low-level warnings that aren't necessarily preemptive but can still alert us to issues we should investigate. These ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogicMonitor?

The pricing can vary yearly or monthly, depending on the clients we're working with and their size and scale. For example, the pricing for a customer with ten thousand licenses versus a hundred lic...

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What do you like most about Nmap?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nmap?

I am using the free version of Nmap.

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What is your primary use case for Nmap?

Nmap is used for network scanning to map the network, identify devices, and assess their status. It helps determine open ports and services running on a particular endpoint or server within an ente...

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Overview

LogicMonitor provides infrastructure and network monitoring, alerting, and reporting across environments like AWS, Azure, and on-premises.

LogicMonitor aids businesses and managed service providers in maintaining system health, performance, and availability. It supports various technologies including Citrix, Cisco Voice systems, operating systems, virtual machines, and network devices. Businesses benefit from dashboards and data insights for proactive management, customizable data sources, and integration with third-party applications like Slack or ServiceNow. AI technology enhances monitoring capabilities by recognizing normal behavior and updating monitored elements, while multiple monitoring features consolidate data sources into one interface.

What are LogicMonitor's key features?

Dashboards: Instant, interactive access to data for easy monitoring.
Customizable Data Sources: Robust, adaptable monitoring with logic modules.
Granular Alert Tuning: Enhances issue identification and resolution.
Reporting Capabilities: Detailed oversight and forecasting.
Third-Party Integration: Expands functionality with applications like Slack and ServiceNow.
AI Technology: Recognizes normal behavior and updates monitored elements.
Consolidated Monitoring: Combines diverse data sources into a single interface.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

System Health: Ensures optimal system performance and availability.
Data Insights: Facilitates proactive management with comprehensive data.
Scalability: Adapts to different environments and technologies.
Efficiency: Streamlines monitoring with a single, efficient interface.
Predictive Analysis: Provides detailed oversight and accurate forecasting.

LogicMonitor is utilized across diverse industries by managed service providers to ensure seamless monitoring and management of clients' systems. This includes application performance monitoring, manual topology mapping, SLA calculations, and improvement of role-based permissions. Companies also seek enhanced resources view, better collector upgrade processes, and streamlined customization for monitoring from the repository.

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Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).

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Sample Customers

Kayak, Zendesk, Ted Baker, Trulia, Sophos, iVision, TekLinks, Siemens

Lockheed Martin, Eastern Bank Boston, Perspecta, Harris Corporation, Discovery Communication

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