IBM AIOps Insights vs. ScienceLogic SL1

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM AIOps Insights
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
IBM AIOps Insights is a solution for event and incident management that offers central IT operations teams a comprehensive view of their managed IT environment, providing holistic context in a single pane of glass. ​ AIOps Insights uses intelligent automation and AI to​ aggregate information by collecting event data from various sources in the environment, correlating related incidents, and helping teams detect and remediate incidents. The platform integrates with existing toolsets and systems…
$9.75
per month MVS
ScienceLogic SL1
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
ScienceLogic is a system and application monitoring and performance management platform. ScienceLogic collects and aggregates data across and IT ecosystems and contextualizes it for actionable insights with the SL1 product offering.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsScienceLogic SL1 offers four tiers: SL1 Advanced – Application Health, Automated Troubleshooting and Remediation Workflows SL1 Base – Infrastructure Monitoring, Topology & Event Correlation SL1 Premium – AI/ML-driven Analytics, Low-Code Automated Workflow Authoring SL1 Standard – Infrastructure Monitoring – with Agents, Business Services, Incident Automation, CMDB Synchronization, Behavioral Correlation To get pricing for each tier, please contact the vendor.
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Features
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AIOps Features
Comparison of AIOps Features features of Product A and Product B
IBM AIOps Insights
5.6
1 Ratings
15% below category average
ScienceLogic SL1
6.5
19 Ratings
0% above category average
Monitoring and Alerting8.21 Ratings7.318 Ratings
Performance Analytics6.41 Ratings6.519 Ratings
Incident Management8.21 Ratings6.719 Ratings
Root Cause Analysis4.51 Ratings6.115 Ratings
Capacity Planning Tool2.71 Ratings5.917 Ratings
Automated Remediation3.61 Ratings6.915 Ratings
Collaboration and Communication5.51 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Service Desk Integration00 Ratings6.419 Ratings
Configuration and Change Management00 Ratings5.817 Ratings
Threat Intelligence00 Ratings6.615 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
Sumo Logic
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
ignio AIOps
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM AIOps InsightsScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.4
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.4
(24 ratings)
Usability
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9.7
(15 ratings)
Availability
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9.7
(14 ratings)
Performance
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8.2
(14 ratings)
Support Rating
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6.4
(20 ratings)
In-Person Training
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8.2
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
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8.6
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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7.2
(91 ratings)
Configurability
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10.0
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
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8.0
(15 ratings)
Product Scalability
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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9.1
(7 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.8
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM AIOps InsightsScienceLogic SL1
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It's ideal for large IT infrastructures that have access to huge amounts of data and to proactively identify issues before they occur. It can automate repetitive tasks and responses, which helps with early resolution. It is not suitable for smaller setups with less data as it leads to a huge cost burden on the business.
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ScienceLogic
I would definitely recommend ScienceLogic to anyone looking for a low-budget, yet enterprise-ready, observability solution. Additionally, it offers multi-tenancy, which can help you manage your managed service providers. It provides comfort in secure channels for discovery, such as WinRM for Windows devices, which is more secure than WMI-based discovery.
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Pros
IBM
  • Problem identification with the help of data and events much before they happen ensures smooth operations.
  • Incident resolution: Provide real-time contextual information on the root cause of the issue and highlight historical data for similar events.
  • Can automate routine tasks associated with incident management, which ultimately saves time.
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ScienceLogic
  • Best overall coverage of montioring different technologies.
  • Easy to use in any environment
  • Customizable being able to generate your own reports, dashboards, DA's, RBA's, etc.
  • Have very good out of the box integrations with other monitoring solutions such as ServiceNow
  • Always improving and regularly releasing new versions and upgrades to the system/DA's.
  • Interactive community
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Cons
IBM
  • It has limited integration capability, especially for mainframe.
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ScienceLogic
  • Dashboards are quite old and are of Iron age. Need to have AP2 dashboards only instead of AP1 and consistent new design across all functionalities.
  • Reporting is not improved since Y2020 and need to revamp completely. Need to integrate Dashboards and Reporting. PowerBI Like functionality to be given OOTB. Reports should be extracted in Excel, PDF, HTML and should be heavily automated.
  • Create and Open APIs for basic and advanced monitoring data extraction.
  • Topology based Event Correlation and Suppression should be improved drastically. Need to identify critical network interfaces based on Topology and monitor them. Basic customization of Dynamic App and/or Powerpack to exclude/include certain metrics/events to be permitted OOTB instead of customizations.
  • Integration with ServiceNow to be improved and to be taken to next level. Automation Powerpack should be made available OOTB as part of base product and to be priced attractively.
  • Take product to next level where we can monitor actual impacted IT or Business Service instead of metrics and events BSM and Topology map to be auto discovered and identify the network dependencies and alternate paths automatically instead of manual creation of BSM.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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ScienceLogic
It is simply because of all the best possible autonomy solutions it is providing and getting better day by day. Using AI and Devops along with handy automation, The monitoring and Management of devices becomes much easier and the way it is growing in all the aspects is one the best reasons too. Evolution of the SL1 platform in the autonomy monitoring and management is quite appreciable.
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Usability
IBM
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ScienceLogic
The core functions are there.
The complexity is due to the complexity of the space.
The score is based on comfort (I no longer notice the legacy UI) and the promise that I see in the 8.12 Unified UI (a vast improvement).
It is also based on the fact that with 8.12, you can now do everything in the new UI but you still have the legacy UI as a fallback (which should now be unnecessary for new installations)
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
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ScienceLogic
SL is always there and online when you need to get info from it. The only times when SL was not available in our own data center, was when network links from out side of the data center was down and those links were not in our controll. Having a central database and people accessing it all over the world, may put a bit of constarin on the performance of the dashboards when reports gets generated, but that is far and few n between.
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Performance
IBM
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ScienceLogic
SceinceLogic SL1 architecture helps the platform to give a top-notch performance in every respect, Data collection to reporting happens very smoothly. With the new user interface pages load much faster. Individual appliances carrying the individual task ensure things are working without lag. Integration with ticketing tool(SNOW) is well managed by the ScienceLogic, no issue or much delay has been observed while interacting with an external tool.
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Support Rating
IBM
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ScienceLogic
So far, it's good as part of my overall experience, except for a couple of use cases. The support team is well knowledgeable, has technical sound, and is efficient. When support escalates to engineering, the issue gets stuck and takes months to resolve.
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In-Person Training
IBM
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ScienceLogic
It was good, Do the online training first and understand it and you will get the most out of the in-person training that way. This also takes you to an advanced level which is very good and the training as been overhauled once again along with new product coming in such as Zebruim / Skylar, worth going through again if it a while back that you first did this.
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Online Training
IBM
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ScienceLogic
There are a lot of educational materials and courses on the SL1 training site (Litmos university). However the recording quality is sometimes not very good - screen resolution is low. There is a lack of professional rather than user-oriented documents and there are mistakes in documentation and education is not well structured.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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ScienceLogic
Implementation is smooth if we are to just support the out-of-the-box features available in ScienceLogic. For any custom requirement, having to go to SL1 Professional Services is the worst part of procuring this suite. And more often than not, SL1 Professional Services also ask to raise feature request. So, you subscribe to Professional Services to only hear back from them that "This feature is not supported and needs to have a separate feature request". At times frustrating.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
- Breadth of service—Event and incident management, Automation capabilities, root cause analysis—IBM's brand image As I was not involved in the purchasing decision, I am not aware of all the reasons why this product was selected.
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ScienceLogic
Science logic SL1 is so user friendly and it's really easy to navigate between function. I would recommend Sciene logic SL1 to all of them who are looking for really useful monitoring tool and expecting easy way of managing it.
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Scalability
IBM
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ScienceLogic
Our deployment model is vastly different from product expectations. Our global / internal monitoring foot print is 8 production stacks in dual data centers with 50% collection capacity allocated to each data center with minimal numbers of collection groups. General Collection is our default collection group. Special Collection is for monitoring our ASA and other hardware that cannot be polled by a large number of IP addresses, so this collection group is usually 2 collectors). Because most of our stacks are in different physical data centers, we cannot use the provided HA solution. We have to use the DR solution (DRBD + CNAMEs). We routinely test power in our data centers (yearly). Because we have to use DR, we have a hand-touch to flip nodes and change the DNS CNAME half of the times when there is an outage (by design). When the outage is planned, we do this ahead of the outage so that we don't care that the Secondary has dropped away from the Primary. Hopefully, we'll be able to find a way to meet our constraints and improve our resiliency and reduce our hand-touch in future releases. For now, this works for us and our complexity. (I hear that the HA option is sweet. I just can't consume that.)
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Reduce downtime and improve service availability.
  • Enhance productivity.
  • Reduce cost and decision making.
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ScienceLogic
  • Once a powerpack is developed and configured for a device for one customer, it is easy to deploy the same powerpack on a second customer estate and configure specifically for that customer without having to reinvent the powerpack. This saves time and therefore money.
  • Once the customer estate tuning is complete, the Operations team have come trust the alerts. This is especially true when transient or self-correcting alerts are automatically cleared without ops team involvement, but a record is still available for audit and debugging purposes. This saves time and therefore money.
  • When setup correctly, it provides good visibility into applications, devices and whole customer estates. This saves time and therefore money when issues arise.
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ScreenShots

IBM AIOps Insights Screenshots

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ScienceLogic SL1 Screenshots

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