LogicMonitor Reviews

LogicMonitor is used to monitor all security network appliances and system appliances, including servers, Linux systems, networks, appliances, firewalls, routers, and switches. It also monitors cloud infrastructure, including VNet, cloud services, and cloud connectivity solutions such as Azure ExpressRoute, and extends down into individual configurations such as BGP sessions and IPsec tunnels. This monitoring capability serves multiple sectors through a managed service provider model, providing services to finance, real estate, and other industries.

The LogicMonitor alert UI is valuable because it correlates alerts, preventing unnecessary panic by allowing me to review the alert dashboard instead of logging into each individual device or relying on unreliable monitoring tools. LogicMonitor is very reliable compared to many other monitoring tools I have used. Each individual BGP session, IPsec tunnel, and interface is captured accurately, and the logs are highly reliable.

The impact of LogicMonitor on management of service health and business risks is significant. In my previous company, after implementing LogicMonitor, most issues were resolved within one hour without requiring senior engineer intervention, as junior engineers could resolve issues by reviewing the alert information and understanding what occurred.

The remediation functionality could be improved. Given the power of the tool, implementing a one-click option to change configurations via SSH or API access to appliances would be beneficial. The remediation component could also include automation capabilities.

I have been working with LogicMonitor for one and a half years.

Before LogicMonitor, I used a different tool for log search, though I cannot recall the name. The main differences between previous tools I used, such as SolarWinds, and LogicMonitor are that previous tools do not display everything in one dashboard. They typically show a number of devices and alerts, and to see alert details, I had to click through to see more information. LogicMonitor displays everything in one comprehensive dashboard, which prevents me from forgetting what I see when navigating away from a link.

I researched the pricing of LogicMonitor, and it costs around ten dollars per device per month, which is somewhat expensive compared to other products. Some monitoring tools such as Zabbix are free resources but not as powerful as LogicMonitor. For small businesses that want to utilize LogicMonitor and are just starting out with limited customers, a pricing model targeted to this segment would be beneficial, perhaps at three or two dollars per device per month.

LogicMonitor has advanced AI and AIOps capabilities for diagnosing root causes that I have not yet utilized. LogicMonitor has positively impacted my team's MTTR for incidents. When one switch goes down, multiple alerts trigger not only from that switch but also from peer switches. Suddenly, a hundred alerts may appear, but the issue can be narrowed down by identifying the down device instead of processing all the noise. One switch showing as red means I can ignore the other alerts coming from other switches, which is very helpful as the entire team can see this information in one dashboard. I rate this product a ten out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

We are using LogicMonitor to monitor our environment to see outages and services. We are also using LogicMonitor to automate some of our IT IS day-to-day tasks.

We have used LogicMonitor to monitor the service health portal of M365 and it worked quite well, saving us a lot of time as an outage is already reported in the Microsoft site.

We are using LogicMonitor not only to monitor our exchange services, but also to monitor the network, firewall, Windows, and outages related to domain controllers. We are using LogicMonitor across all other infrastructure.

LogicMonitor is a first line of defense for our monitoring tool, so we heavily depend on it. Recently, we have started using LogicMonitor to monitor our certificates and personal store in certificates to safeguard our infrastructure for probable outages related to certificates.

We saved our time and improved our MTTR, though I am unable to disclose the monetary savings because those are business-related matters.

LogicMonitor provides complete information about the error and the alert, explaining why a service is down. By reviewing this information, we can easily fix the issue, which has improved our MTTR.

We are using AWS, Intra, and M365 all together. LogicMonitor with dynamic digital service functionality does not only safeguard from outages, but also helps prevent losses due to outages in business, especially during sales promotions. We can predict outages and safeguard our environment for any business loss.

LogicMonitor is a rule-based solution, and in terms of AI-related solutions, it should have a knowledge base and self-healing solution capabilities. It should not only be used for monitoring outages or services. If there is any outage or interruption or disruption in service, it should fix that issue. LogicMonitor should have self-healing functionality.

I will emphasize more on self-healing because nowadays, we do not want a solution that only alerts us to an outage or service down. Instead, it should also start the service, perform diagnosis, and track all of this. We need a complete solution and complete orchestration. We are not just looking for a solution that is monitoring-based; we are looking for a solution that fixes the outage and documents it all.

We faced issues where we did not have a complete dashboard to see information about outages related to all other cloud environments in a single pane. We struggled a lot there, and that could be an area of improvement for LogicMonitor.

I have been working for the last thirteen years in a multinational company supporting a multinational client. We have been using LogicMonitor for the last eight years and it is a quite product and cost-effective.

LogicMonitor is a quite stable product and has less false negatives.

LogicMonitor is a scalable product because we can integrate LogicMonitor with numerous servers without impacting the performance.

Customer support is quite responsive and they join the call if there is anything, any setup, or any rule or customization we need to do.

We were using SCOM, which was a costly solution. We switched from SCOM to LogicMonitor, which does more than SCOM with lower cost.

We were evaluating Microsoft solutions, but when we saw LogicMonitor, it was cost-effective and has flexibility to use open-source plugins, so we switched.

LogicMonitor can be customized with its rules. We are installing agents, but the way it is customized with all the services and plugins that it has worked really well. The cost-effectiveness is notable because there are other solutions in the market such as SCOM, which is a Microsoft product but quite costly, yet we can achieve the same things in LogicMonitor.

We need to monitor some exchange transport services. If we used SCOM, it would be really costly because you need to install the management packages. With LogicMonitor, you just need to map the services with LogicMonitor functions and it starts working. This provides the same functionality at a much lower cost.

LogicMonitor is a cheaper solution with great features, making it a cost-effective solution. The best feature it has is the adaptability with other technologies. It works with open-source solutions. If you have any JSON file, you can integrate it here, which makes it different compared to other solutions that are not willing to integrate with open-source solutions.

I recommend proceeding with LogicMonitor as it will safeguard your environment as well as save money that can be utilized for other products. LogicMonitor is a great product and performing well. We have not used certain features, but we are exploring those solutions. I would rate this review as an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for LogicMonitor is monitoring devices and network devices like switches, routers, and firewalls.

Our company uses LogicMonitor to monitor bandwidth usage on switches, track memory usage on servers, get alerts when a firewall goes down, and detect issues before users notice, which automates alerts and eliminates the need for manual checking.

The best feature LogicMonitor offers is its dashboard, along with Auto-Discovery and smart alerting based on CPU, memory, and uptime, saving significant setup time with custom dashboards useful for our team's analysis.

Auto-Discovery is one of the most useful features because it automatically finds and starts monitoring devices without manual effort, scanning devices such as routers, switches, servers, and firewalls, thereby applying the right monitoring automatically.

Another powerful feature is the auto network map, which automatically creates a virtual map of the network and shows how routers, switches, and servers are connected, helping us identify which device failures impact others.

LogicMonitor has positively impacted our organization by reducing downtime and increasing uptime, allowing us to detect issues before they cause outages, maintaining business application uptime, preventing revenue loss, enhancing customer experience, expediting issue resolution, and reducing stress on the team.

I wish LogicMonitor could improve by integrating all dashboards for different countries and regions within one view to simplify oversight, as navigating multiple sites takes time.

I have about two years of experience in my current field. I have been using LogicMonitor for about two years.

LogicMonitor is stable.

The scalability of LogicMonitor is impressive, as it handles more load without slowing down or breaking, maintaining performance and reliability.

Customer support is very good, providing instant help and assistance for any user problems and guidance for optimizing the product.

Before LogicMonitor, we used SolarWinds but switched because it lacked features available in LogicMonitor that are essential for our organization.

LogicMonitor operates in a hybrid environment where we monitor both on-premise infrastructure and cloud platforms, using its SaaS-based architecture to integrate seamlessly without extensive setup.

We are a partner of the vendor but not a reseller.

The return on investment from using LogicMonitor arises from various areas, including reduced downtime, revenue savings, faster resolutions, cost optimization, and reduced security risks, with potential ROI reaching 2000% in mature setups.

LogicMonitor follows a subscription-based pricing model, calculated based on the number of monitored devices or resources, with cheaper rates per device in larger environments.

We only used SolarWinds before LogicMonitor, evaluated other tools, but chose LogicMonitor as the best fit for our organization.

My advice to others looking into using LogicMonitor is that it effectively reduces average resolution time for incidents through real-time alerts and root cause analysis, which significantly improves uptime.

LogicMonitor is a good tool where monitoring is not a one-time setup; it requires continuous tuning of alerts and thresholds to remain effective as the environment evolves, enabling faster decisions and improving overall business performance.

I would rate this product a 10.

On-premises

Other

My main use case for LogicMonitor is enterprise monitoring, specifically infrastructure monitoring, and cloud, so hybrid monitoring. For hybrid monitoring, we monitor services that are running in the cloud amongst all three providers, whether it's GCP, AWS, or Azure, as well as infrastructure in our data center and at our various locations as well.

The best features LogicMonitor offers include the single pane of glass, the constant improvements to the features within LogicMonitor, as well as the excellent support and the ability to actually get hold of the developers of their specific products or features within the tool.

The single pane of glass feature helps my team day to day by allowing us to look at all our specific areas in one view, in one tool, even though it's infrastructure for various departments or various teams; with that, they can see their own systems within LogicMonitor, do reporting, graphing, dashboarding, etcetera.

LogicMonitor has positively impacted my organization by being up to date with all the latest features and capabilities, so as our organization develops cutting-edge systems, whether internal or third party, we can always rely on LogicMonitor to provide proper enterprise level monitoring and observability.

LogicMonitor has expanded our view of our systems and has reduced our mean time to resolution, as now engineers that work on specific issues are able to very quickly identify what the cause is.

LogicMonitor can be improved by having more meetings with customers to find out what they really need and perhaps also by providing feedback on feature requests to see where the feature requests actually sit in their development queue.

In my current field, I've been working for more than twenty years.

LogicMonitor is stable.

LogicMonitor scales well; however, the need to assess the load on collectors is a bit cumbersome.

Customer support is good, but escalations within customer support are not so good.

Positive

I previously used a different solution, but I cannot say the name, and it wasn't up to date with current technologies and did not align with our observability requirements.

I experienced no issues with pricing, setup cost, and licensing; it was very transparent, and the licensing model is very clear and easy to understand, with the exception of the cloud licensing, which is a bit confusing.

The cloud licensing is confusing due to the way resources are counted; they have an algorithm or method that they use, but it's not shared or easily determinable for me to ascertain what the actual cost is based on my usage.

Before choosing LogicMonitor, I evaluated other options, but I cannot disclose what those other options were.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate LogicMonitor an eight. I choose that number because it's above average, but they still haven't quite reached the level of features required for it to be a complete single pane of glass; for example, the APM feature is not quite as developed as Datadog.

My advice for others looking into using LogicMonitor is to assess what your needs are, whether the features align with your company's design, as well as what your company actually requires from the tool, since LogicMonitor is designed for full level observability, so it's pointless getting it just to monitor three servers; we're looking at enterprise-level monitoring here.

I would rate LogicMonitor an 8 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Other

My main use case for LogicMonitor is to have visibility on the servers in our network, various networks, and cloud resources.

I use LogicMonitor to look at various logs, and I have used the logs that I have obtained from LogicMonitor to pinpoint issues and fix them.

The dashboards are really very helpful and they can be customized, which helps us.

I think agentless monitoring and the dashboards are my favorite features. With agentless monitoring, there is no need to install software on every device, and that cuts down time because we have a lot of devices. The dashboards are customizable, so various teams and roles can use those dashboards in a way that suits their needs.

When I see things in real time, I am able to get to them faster. When there is any kind of issue on any of our various servers, because we have many servers in our environment, seeing things in real time is very helpful.

It has had a solid impact and has helped us to resolve issues faster with everything in real time and the alerts. Some noticeable changes could be how our dashboards look and how we are able to see things in real time.

LogicMonitor has a very steep learning curve. The user interface sometimes can feel unintuitive. The mobile app has some limitations.

The only challenges we have are sometimes the setup, which can take some work to avoid too much noise. When we need support, they have been helpful.

I have been using LogicMonitor for three years.

LogicMonitor customer support is good. I advise getting a demo and working with the customer support because I think LogicMonitor works well.

I am not sure what we used before, as it might have been before my time. I do know that we switched because whatever we were using before was not functioning in a positive way.

There was DataDog that we looked at, and I thought LogicMonitor was better.

The pricing was a bit high. The setup was pretty fair.

I have seen a positive return on investment. I cannot give specific metrics, but it has definitely saved time for my team.

I gave LogicMonitor an overall review rating of 8.

On-premises

We installed LogicMonitor as a SaaS-based solution, and we have an agentless approach. We are monitoring the overall interface and not just the network devices. I am looking after the network devices only.

LogicMonitor is good for getting a full view of your topologies. They have LiveMaps, which give you a visual representation of your infrastructure. They also have a great notification system. If something goes wrong, you'll be automatically notified. LogicMonitor also integrates with ServiceNow, so you can easily get alerts in those systems.

Another thing I like about LogicMonitor is their dependency metrics. This means that if one device goes down, you won't get alerts for other devices that depend on it. This helps you to quickly identify and resolve problems.

Overall, I think LogicMonitor has a lot of great features. However, I do have some concerns about the deployment process. It's not as straightforward as it could be. Additionally, some of the workflow automation features require scripting knowledge, which can be a barrier for some users.

LogicMonitor has good features, but the ease of use is a little bit confusing. Additionally, we are looking for workflow automation, which is a little bit tricky for LogicMonitor. But we are still exploring more and do not have detailed training in LogicMonitor.

Moreover, the deployment process needs improvement. The thing is the deployment or whatever the standard deployment should be implemented here. That is not fine-tuning.

In my personal opinion, for workflow automation and other stuff, we have Python or scripting knowledge, and that part is very tricky. Whenever we try to call the service or the LogicMonitor team, and we open a ticket, it is chargeable.

In future releases, we would like to see a configuration backup manager. A feature that automatically backups the device configuration will help us. So, instead of going with another third-party tool, this will be good.

We have been using the product for two years.

The stability is very good. We have a SaaS-based solution and a cloud-based solution. We never experienced any kind of downtime from them. So, that part is very good.

It will be good because whatever knowledge I have with LogicMonitor is limited. I have not been able to fully explore LogicMonitor because of the scripting and other overflow automation concepts. Even courses are not available on working data. So, basically, working on the courses is available for free. I really didn't deep-dive into LogicMonitor.

In our organization, the regional office, we have two major regional offices in the USA, Kansas City, and Mumbai. So, Mumbai's count is 2,000, and Kansas City's is 4,000.

Almost all use LogicMonitor, which would include branch offices as well. So, more than 100 branch offices. We are monitoring one key code universal, and the rest of the branches have separate networks and accesses.

I would rate the scalability of this solution an eight out of ten.

The technical support is very good. But the only thing is that if you have some issues with the particular script writing and some customized reports, we have to open the case with them, and that is chargeable. That is what the subscription part is, and what the agreement between our organization and LogicMonitor is, I don’t know. Our dedicated SME handles it in the USA office.

So, if we want to open a case with them, we go to our SME, and they will try to resolve the issue. If not, then it will be chargeable. Last time, we raised some queries, and my management told me that if the query is not solved, open a case, and it will be chargeable.

I have been working with SolarWinds for more than four years. So, I can talk about SolarWinds. SolarWinds is good for network monitoring. It has reporting of topology diagrams and all this stuff that we can get over there. Also, a bandwidth analyzer is available, which is a very handy tool. There is also configuration management, which is like an add-on basis. So that is good. But with the recent incident with SolarWinds, it is no more secure. If you wanted an on-premises solution, then probably go with ManageEngine or SolarWinds. But when looking for cloud-based, we thought LogicMonitor will be good for us. We only have to check and gain some knowledge on whatever they provide, the knowledge portal or training. So, that is part training for us.

The team in the USA or the partner who implemented LogicMonitor earlier is not in the proper shape of architecture or deployment. So, it's got some issues with the network device group and servers. So, all are messed up. We decided to fine-tune the hardening of this LogicMonitor.

Personally, the way we implement it here. I feel it is not easy to use.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

I would rate the pricing for LogicMonitor a six or seven out of ten, where one being cheap and ten being expensive. 

The thing is that some features are there, but we have, like, incompetency to add up that feature. So, the product is feature-packed. But some of the features we have to explore still.

Overall, I would rate LogicMonitor an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

We use it to monitor the performance and health of all our internal IT systems in our data center as well as our customer equipment that we have out on customer sites. We have our own stuff in our own data center, but we also have hundreds of devices out on our customer sites where we need to monitor and manage the health and performance of them.

Before we were using LogicMonitor, we didn't really have visibility on a lot of things. We went from almost nothing at all, e.g., no visibility on things, no good monitoring, and not being alerted or aware of problems when they would arise, to putting in LogicMonitor across our whole estate and customers' environments now. This has meant that we have been able to centralize that function. When something goes wrong, we can react to it quickly. We can resolve it before it impacts our customers. That is massively important.

We went from nothing to pretty much full visibility across our internal and external estates of equipment, which has been massive for us in terms of being able to resolve problems faster and provide better customer service to our customers. At the end of the day, our customers pay us to be on top of their stuff. LogicMonitor helps us do what we are supposed to do for our customers. So, it is very good from our perspective.

We only have one monitoring tool, and that is LogicMonitor. It does pretty much everything we need under one roof. They are very good at rapidly releasing new features. It's not like we have to wait six months or a year between new features and data sources. There is very quick development. If there is something that doesn't do it for us, I know I can just raise it with support or our delivery representative, and there is a good chance that that will be looked at. If it's not too much effort, we will see it released in the next few months. So, the solution is very good from that perspective. We have everything in LogicMonitor.

We monitor stuff that is on-prem and in the cloud. It is very good comprehensively for that. It is brilliant. I could probably only count a couple of times where there has been something I have needed to monitor that hasn't had a data source or something in LogicMonitor. It is only niche products where I guess it wouldn't necessarily make financial sense for them to actually develop something for this at the moment. For example, we started using a fairly new product, which we rolled out for a lot of our customers, and noticed when we first started using it that there were a limited amount of data sources in LogicMonitor for it. Over the last couple of months, that has been developed significantly. Generally, if it doesn't do something that we want it to do, there is a chance that it will do it at some point and that process is usually quite quick. 

We are very happy with it from a future-proofing perspective. With the amount of updates that LogicMonitor pushes out, I have no concerns that LogicMonitor won't be able to keep up with them as the IT environment changes for our customers and ourselves going forward. It will be great for that.

There are a lot of valuable features. The product is probably one of the best-featured products in terms of its usability. It is brilliant. The in-depth graphs are really good for visualization. Remote access to devices through the LogicMonitor portal is really good from an ease-of-use perspective. Also, it is very secure.

LogicMonitor bought a company called Unomaly and integrated their log analytics into the LogicMonitor portal, which has been very good for us. Although we have a very big technical team, our internally facing IT team is quite small so having a product that is very easy to use is really important for us. We don't have loads of people who are experts in every individual product that we have. We have people that need to be skilled across a large number of products. So, the usability is very good for LogicMonitor.

We definitely use the Dashboards feature. We generally construct the dashboards ourselves, so we don't use the template ones that LogicMonitor provides by default, but we do use the Dashboards feature for our own dashboards. The templates are good examples of what you can do with dashboards, but they don't tend to meet a lot of our requirements, so we tend to do them from scratch.

We use the Dashboards feature for some of our service reviews and things for customers. We will present a dashboard to a customer when we do a review with them to show them graphs and stats on their solution. 

We use dynamic thresholds within the AIOps functionality. It is good because there are a lot of times when our customers have things fluctuate. This means that we are not getting alerted for stuff all the time, e.g., every time it just goes slightly over a threshold. So, the dynamic thresholds means that we're just able to react a bit more appropriately rather than just logging issues with customers when they are not really issues.

LogicMonitor has given us visibility into issues that we didn’t even know existed. It picks up on things, like failed power supplies or disks running out of space.

Their Logs feature is quite new. It is not as feature-rich as we would like it to be. There have been a couple of conversations internally around other log management tools, like Splunk, which may do more for us than LM Logs. The benefit of LogicMonitor is that our staff know how to use it, so we don't really want to move away from it, if we don't have to. I fully expect there to be more development in this area. It is their newest feature, so it is understandable that it hasn't evolved as some of the other stuff. It would be good to see a bit more development in this area, but I think the monitoring side of things is spot on.

I have been using it for three or four years. I used it across two different companies. So, I used it at a previous company, then I moved to my current company. We have had it in my current company for two or three years.

Stability is pretty much perfect. I don't think I have ever seen a problem with it. I don't think I have ever had an issue where I needed to roll anything back or tried to log in and it has not been available. It is pretty spot on there.

For what we have done so far, it has scaled perfectly. We are by no means one of their larger customers, 100 to 450 devices, and we have not really had any issues with scalability from that perspective. I don't know what it is like if you are monitoring tens of thousands of devices, but scalability has been perfect for us.

We probably have about 20 or 30 internal users who log into LogicMonitor and do things within the tool. They are largely hands-on technical staff, and there are probably a couple of more management or service delivery roles in there. Service delivery is customer success, doing reviews with customers to make sure they are happy. Usually, they just use the dashboards feature for that. As a service provider, the majority of our staff are technical engineers who either support customer environments, therefore looking at alerts and things within the tool, or they are using it to access customer solutions. 90% to 95% of our technical staff are using it.

It is used across our entire business. It is probably one of the tools that we centrally revolve around. It's becoming a pretty core part of our business, and we do have plans to increase our usage. 

At the moment, we have a commitment of 350 devices. We are slightly over our commitment, but I just had a quote from our account manager to increase to 450 or 500 devices. We just wanted to see a quote just to see what the volume discounts would be on each level.

It depends on the sort of customer that we win as to how many devices that we might need. For one customer, we might end up needing five devices, but for another, we might need 50. At the moment, we are looking at ramping up to 450 to 500, but that scales every time we win a customer. Over time, I suspect it will keep going up. Hopefully, it doesn't go down. If it goes down, we are losing customers. 

The technical support is brilliant. You get different types of tech support people at different companies, and LogicMonitor got it right in terms of the type of people they have and the way they operate. They have good channels for how to communicate with their support staff. Every time that I have dealt with someone from support, they have been really helpful. If you ask a question, you generally get quite a comprehensive answer. It will not only answer your question but also provide information on how they came to that conclusion. So, next time, if you see something similar, then you are able to resolve it yourself. I think their support staff is very knowledgeable. I have had no complaints about any ticket that I have ever logged with them.

One of the things that I did when I came into the company was to put this solution in place because they didn't have something.

It is one of those tools where you start using it and see how nice the graphs are. I have used other monitoring tools in the past, and their graphing has just been awful. Once you see LogicMonitor and start using it, you realize how easy and nice the application is to use.

The initial setup is straightforward. There are not too many steps. The process for doing it within the portal is very easy. It is step by step. It is very simple to do and understand. The steps are very clear and well written. It doesn't take long. The installation of the collector does not really have any settings to put in. It is just opening the installer and clicking "Next" a few times. Deploying a collector to a site takes five minutes. 

The initial deployment is a gradual thing. Our IT estate has grown considerably since we started using LogicMonitor. When we put LogicMonitor in, we probably had less than 100 devices. Now, we are already looking at uplifting our commitment to 450 to 500 devices. We have gradually grown it, so we haven't necessarily had to do a complete rollout for 500 devices in one project. We have been adding 10 to 20 a month. It doesn't take long at all. It's not something that we are looking at how to streamline, because it is already so quick.

LogicMonitor reduces new customer onboarding time because the collector rollout process takes us a couple of minutes.

We can drop a collector onsite for a customer, and we can pick up everything or select things that we need. It is very easy deployment-wise. This is really important to us. One of our current goals as an MSP is to always reduce the amount of time that it takes us to roll out solutions for customers. The quicker that we can deliver something, the quicker that we, as an MSP, can bill it. Also, the quicker we can get the cash into the business, the better for the business. Being able to drop something on a customer site and very quickly get everything added massively reduces the time it takes us to roll stuff out, which is really good for our business.

The way that we use LogicMonitor is probably a bit different to how some customers use it. We configure, install, and roll out appliances to customer sites. Installing LogicMonitor on the appliances is part of our build process. As we build the appliances in our lab, we install the LogicMonitor agent on something, then it gets shipped out to the customer's site. So, it is built into our build processes. Strategically, it is part of that. Our general strategy for rolling out is nothing special because we have done it over time.

General maintenance of the solution deployed on a customer site is pretty much nothing. Because we auto-upgrade all the collectors on customer sites, so we don't have to do anything. 

This does not really have anything to do with LogicMonitor, but we spend quite a lot of time just generally maintaining alerts within the tool, because we constantly need to change the thresholds of things. We get an alert for something, then we realize, "Actually, no. We don't need to monitor that," so we have to turn it off or change when we are alerted to something. From experience, that is something you have to do with any monitoring tool. You can't expect to install it and then never have to do anything with it. It is probably where we spend most of our effort maintaining it.

If we had other tools that were more complicated, we would need to hire more staff, and then our staff costs would be higher. Therefore, the costs of the products or services that we sell to our customers would then, naturally, have to be higher. Having a wide number of features under one product, which are very easy to use, means that we don't need to have highly skilled expert people running the solution. It can be run by more junior members of staff, and we don't need to have a lot of different products and software, which would increase our overall costs, which we would then have to pass on to our customers.

LogicMonitor saves us time. If there was a problem and we didn't know where the problem was, we would potentially spend hours of time trying to locate where the problem was. Whereas, LogicMonitor helps us pinpoint where problems are. Instead of spending hours looking at something and finding out if it is an issue, we might spend minutes instead.

LogicMonitor reduces mean time to repair. If we didn't know where a problem was or weren't able to pinpoint it, we could spend hours or days, potentially, looking for the cause or source of a problem. Whereas, with LogicMonitor, we can do it in minutes or hours, depending on how complex the problem is. It probably halves, if not more, the length of time it takes us to get resolutions.

We include costs in our pricing for the monitoring and management, but the LogicMonitor name probably doesn't have too much to do with that, but that's just because of the way we work.

We are on an enterprise license plan, we are paying $7.75 per device a month. That is for a commitment of 350 devices. Anything that is over the 350 is charged at 1.2 times the rate; 1.2 times $7.75 would be the overage charge. We are looking at increasing our commitment to either 450 or 500 devices. It changes our pricing if we go to 450 devices, bringing it from $7.75 down to $7.70. If we go for 500 devices, it brings it from $7.75 down to $7.50. We will probably factor in the volume discount drop from $7.75 to $7.50 in our decision of whether we uplift or not. We also have some cloud monitors, which are about $500 a month.

There is another feature of LogicMonitor that we would quite like to use, but it is quite expensive for our use case. It is called LM Config. We would have a very light use case for it. Therefore, I don't think that we could justify the cost of that at the moment. It is something that we would like to use, but it is just a bit expensive. 

It is definitely not the cheapest tool. As we scale, as a relatively small business, there are times when I think, "Should we monitor that?" or, "Should we do that?" because of the price of the devices. However, it is so good that we are not really looking at doing anything else.

I had evaluated LogicMonitor at a previous company, which was a much bigger company. It was a company where it was a lot harder to make purchasing decisions. When I moved companies, I had already seen LogicMonitor and how good it was, so I didn't look at anything else. I just knew we wanted to use LogicMonitor.

If people are comparing something based on price alone, I would still say, "Do a trial. Look at some of the extra features that LogicMonitor provides," because we have found that it does more for us than just monitoring. We use it as our remote access solution to things as well, which means that we were able to get rid of another product that we were paying for in favor of LogicMonitor. So, we have consolidated two requirements into one. Even though LogicMonitor might be more expensive than another solution, we have saved overall.

Go with LogicMonitor. Definitely, do a trial and test out the functionality.

We don't really use that many legacy tools. We are a fairly modern company in that pretty much everything we use is software as a service. So, LogicMonitor fits very nicely into that for us. We don't use products where we have to install them on servers. Everything that we use is cloud-based, and LogicMonitor is cloud-based. So, it is great from that perspective. We don't really have legacy apps, so LogicMonitor fits very nicely into that.

We actually don't use a large number of the integrations, and that's not necessarily because we don't want to. It's because we don't have some of the products that it integrates with, but we are looking to put some of them in largely because LogicMonitor has integrations with them. A good example of this is our support desk system at the moment is a certain product, but we're looking specifically to put something like ServiceNow in because LogicMonitor integrates with it. Doing that would mean that we can reduce the amount of effort on our support teams having to manually pick up things and log them, instead it could be done automatically. 

I think actually having LogicMonitor and their integrations is affecting our buying decisions for other products. This ability to integrate with other products is becoming increasingly more important. As our business grows, we are looking at how to become more efficient. Also, being able to integrate LogicMonitor with other systems is becoming increasingly more important as we look to streamline our work processes. 

We are looking at LogicMonitor's collectors along with the templated integrations and dashboards to enable us to automate our onboarding process and roll it out to new customers> It is on our roadmap, but a little bit further down the line. We are quite a small team and have a lot of stuff on our roadmap. This is just one of those things that we haven't gotten to yet.

It probably indirectly affects our ability to win customers. For some MSPs, if they are specifically selling their customers LogicMonitor, then it may be a bit more relevant. Our customers don't necessarily see LogicMonitor behind the scenes. It indirectly affects our ability to win customers in that we are able to be very responsive to problems and resolve things that may happen with their solutions. So, it allows us to react quickly, which affects our general ability to win customers when they ultimately get references from other customers and those customers are able to feed back that we are very responsive and able to rapidly resolve issues for them.

We don't tend to advertise to our customers that we use LogicMonitor. We don't push it as a premium product because of the way we use it. We bundle it within our service, and it is just a tool that we use internally to manage our MSP customers.

The biggest lesson that I have learned: No matter what tool you use, you still have to spend a lot of time tweaking alerts. You can't expect to put a tool like LogicMonitor in, just leaving it alone and never having to do anything. So, it is important to have a tool that is very user-friendly because you will still have to use it on a daily basis.

I would rate it a nine or 10 out of 10. It is probably one of the best tools that we have used.

We are a network of hospitals using the solution to monitor our network devices and all of the interfaces connected to them. It's predominantly instances of applications running on Windows Server. We use the Windows WMI for Windows Server stats.

The IT directors at our hospitals use it, so we have around 90 end-users Some of them have extended the monitoring capabilities to printers to stay on top of toner supplies. In the past, we've had admin people freaking out because the printer is out of toner, and we have any in the closet. Nobody was watching that, and some people would be hoarding supplies.

LogicMonitor replaced SolarWinds after a security breach.  We work with a network service provider that owns all of the network devices, and we had some issues with total inventory control. We're a monitoring site, so we're not necessarily on the operational side and we're out of the loop sometimes when things are changing.

It is easy to set up and monitor an entire facility. This is crucial because we have around 80 facilities that require monitoring. LifePoint is a hub-and-spoke environment, so it is essential to understand all of the WAN interfaces.

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.

I have been using LogicMonitor for 18 months.

LogicMonitor has been stable so far. There has been a learning curve, where we had to allocate more resources to a collector doing work. At the same time, it has been relatively easy to stand up more of them.

Scaling is a matter of adding more collectors to the environment. If you've discovered too many devices, you have to rebalance the collectors. However, if you add more collectors into a sphere, you don't need to worry about doing the load balancing by yourself. You let the mechanics do it for you.

I rate LogicMonitor support nine out of 10. They have a button on all of the webpages that says "Contact Support," so you can do that online or submit a ticket. Both have worked well.

Positive

I was a big user of SolarWinds before. It was easy to pull data out of SolarWinds and then put it into other tools for big-picture analysis across the entire enterprise as opposed to an individual device.

Setting up LogicMonitor isn't very complex. We quickly learned that we could do some collector load balancing. As we're adding devices to a series of collectors, it can do its own load balancing to ensure you don't have too much on one server doing S&P polling. 

We did most of the work ourselves.

We've certainly seen a return. One of the features we use extensively is Netflow, which helps us better understand what is consumed in the WAN environment. For example, we can determine that the DICOM processing is unnecessarily using up the WAN. It can go over a Meraki network, which is an encrypted process going over the general internet. We have highly secure Opt-E-WAN environments that most traffic goes over, but we also use the public internet to send other encrypted data.

The license is annual, and I'm not fully aware of what it costs. We have a through-cycle that we go through, and they've been generous with us going above our limit. They're not strict on it. At the end of the year, they got us to renew. We always add some cushion for what we expect. Also, if you need custom monitoring or design work, you can pay them for consulting services. 

I rate LogicMonitor eight out of 10. It's easy to add new features to LogicMonitor. 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.