ScienceLogic vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

ScienceLogic and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Server Monitoring category. ScienceLogic is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.7, while SolarWinds is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.6. ScienceLogic holds a 2.4% mindshare in SM, compared to SolarWinds’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of ScienceLogic users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 6, 2024

ScienceLogic and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM) compete in server and application monitoring. ScienceLogic leads in customer service and ROI, while SolarWinds SAM excels in feature comprehensiveness and ease of deployment.

Features: ScienceLogic automation capabilities intelligent data gathering predictive analytics. SolarWinds SAM detailed performance metrics custom alerting systems expansive application integrations.

Room for Improvement: ScienceLogic reporting functionalities integration with third-party tools user interface navigation. SolarWinds SAM scalability options intuitive navigation enhanced reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ScienceLogic efficient deployment process outstanding customer support. SolarWinds SAM swift deployment mixed reviews on customer support quality.

Pricing and ROI: ScienceLogic higher setup cost strong ROI. SolarWinds SAM lower initial costs significant ROI robust feature set.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ScienceLogic

Ranking in Server Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (7th), Unified Communications Monitoring (1st), Network Monitoring Software (13th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (16th), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (13th), AIOps (9th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (22nd), Active Directory Management (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of ScienceLogic is 2.4%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 3.2%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Server Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor	3.2%
ScienceLogic	2.4%
Other	94.4%

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Featured Reviews

Pallagani Siva Koteswararao

Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy

Comprehensive monitoring streamlines operations with room for user support enhancement

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 team. Whenever we encounter difficulties, I raise vendor cases and am eager to deepen my understanding of those cases. Additionally, I want to learn more about ScienceLogic's dashboards, which display crucial metrics about collectors, their health, and devices aligned to them. The dashboard should be more detailed. Regarding improvements to ScienceLogic's technical support, my last company was IBM in India, and I worked on IBM MQ monitoring until my last day. I engaged with the LogicMonitor support team for MQ-level incidents, but these issues remained unresolved even after 10 to 15 days. On my last working day, I assisted with one such vendor case, and I am unsure if that issue was ever resolved. ScienceLogic's technical support should respond more efficiently in terms of time. During my time working on MQ-level cases, including a power pack upgrade that did not fix the issues faced, I provided all necessary steps with the help of the middleware team. However, there were still gaps that needed addressing.

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NikhilKalwint

Technical Specialist at ServiceIO

Monitoring over a thousand systems has improved decision making and operational visibility

From an advantage perspective, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is comparatively cheaper from a commercial point of view. It is easy to install and configure, very user-friendly, and quick to get up and running, allowing you to see the early value adds in your organization. It is compatible with most technologies for monitoring with very few chances of incompatibility. Configuration also allows us to monitor all the technical parameters we are looking for, making it a very good experience for us. The alerting feature in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is a main advantage, as it alerts based on threshold breaches and can raise tickets to the ticketing system, send SMS, and email notifications, allowing engineers to work on those tickets to resolve issues and avoid further impact. The visibility into server health is a beneficial feature that I am utilizing. We widely use various application performance metrics in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor such as database monitoring and server monitoring, which are quite good enough for any monitoring solution. We utilize the customizable dashboards in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor.

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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

"ScienceLogic allows us to create and customize a user-friendly dashboard."

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

"I recommend ScienceLogic to other users."

"When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable."

"The best feature is the highly flexible graphs."

"It has good monitoring capabilities across cloud environments, data centers, and hybrid environments."

"The flexibility to support most technologies. The way ScienceLogic gathers data from multiple sources is vital to our customers. As we work with new customers (often with different technology requirements), ScienceLogic is flexible enough to support our clients’ varying network needs."

"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."

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"The graphical interfaces, GUI customizations, and alert configurations are impressive."

"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."

"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."

"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"

"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"I have found the visibility into server health with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor very beneficial, which we use on a daily basis."

"Solarwinds has an open database that allows you to do serious integrations. It doesn't matter which service desk you have, you can implement and integrate it with SolarWinds."

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Cons

"ScienceLogic does not have application monitoring. We definitely need something integrated within ScienceLogic to monitor applications so that we don't have to rely on monitoring tools to monitor other applications. At least the ones that are market leaders, such as SAP, Oracle, and others."

"If I were a small to medium business, I probably wouldn't choose this provider. It is a heavily configurable, heavyweight, and scalable IT solution for IT infrastructure monitoring."

"One important area we feel could be improved is the UI. It takes a lot of clicks to do very simple tasks."

"ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."

"The product must educate its strategic partners for deployment."

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

"They should improve their support process and add chat."

"The product is not user-friendly."

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"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."

"From an integration point of view, if you want to have a manager of manager kind of layer, that is currently lacking in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor."

"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."

"For each poller, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor can only monitor up to ten thousand components, which restricts scalability."

"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."

"The technical support was better in previous years. With the launch of the premium support service, the normal support has declined."

"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."

"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"The pricing model for ScienceLogic could improve."

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

"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."

"It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."

"Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."

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"Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."

"I like the pricing for this SolarWinds product."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. It is just the standard price, but it can vary depending on the current rate of the dollar."

"When compared to other licensed models in the market, it stands out as one of the more cost-effective options."

"I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."

"The product is expensive."

"The tool is available for my company at a good price point."

"The product might cost you $30,000 USD to buy, but scaling this solution requires the purchase of additional polling engines at $20,000 USD each."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

Educational Organization

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ScienceLogic?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ScienceLogic?

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

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What needs improvement with ScienceLogic?

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The initial cost is quite high, but the renewal cost is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

There is definitely room for improvement besides simplifying its setup. As a non-technical person, I believe the dashboards could be improved. Everything we use appears on video walls, and we need ...

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Overview

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.

ScienceLogic

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell

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