LogicMonitor vs. SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
LogicMonitor	Score 8.4 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. It provides IT and business teams operational visibility and predictability across their technologies and applications.	N/A
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…	$1,585 Per Instance

Pricing

LogicMonitor

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Editions & Modules

Enterprise: Contact sales team
Website Monitoring: Contact sales team

One Time Price: $1,585
Per Instance

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
LogicMonitor	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Our platform is broken down into Pro and Enterprise Pricing. Pro includes monitoring for all of your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure. Our Enterprise package includes all of this, plus our AIOps and Machine Learning functionality that provides dynamic thresholds, root cause analysis, anomaly detection and more! LogicMonitor only charges by the device. What is considered a device? A device is anything with an IP address that you want to monitor, including a physical device or a cloud resource. This means multiple data sources under the same IP address can be monitored for the same price. Unlike some monitoring platforms. we don’t charge per node, interface, or metric.

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Community Pulse
	LogicMonitor	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Considered Both Products	LogicMonitor KC Kirsten Cornell Senior Communications Specialist Chose LogicMonitor Our business used the trial period they provided on one of our systems and conducted sessions with all of this software. Our team tested all of these software options before deciding on LogicMonitor, as our business is expanding daily and we needed a system that could … Incentivized Helpful? MC Madison Crane Digital Marketing Manager Chose LogicMonitor Basically, we did not have any idea about it and how to choose, but we asked one of our former bosses, as they were very experienced with it, so they helped us by clarifying a few things between New Relic and LogicMonitor, as they told us that if you are looking for an … Incentivized Helpful? Stuart Carrison IT Director Chose LogicMonitor SaaS monitoring makes so much sense. Why run your monitoring inside the same environment you're trying to monitor, and how do you monitor your on prem monitoring if there's an outage affecting your own infrastructure? Whilst LogicMonitor isn't a specific point solution so … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM) and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor When looking for a monitoring tool, LogicMonitor was similar or better than all of them. We moved away from SolarWinds because of its inability to monitor other network environments and lack of a collector or probe type device that could collect remote data. PRTG was very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Fabrico and Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor was the most versatile and easy to deploy solution. The data from LogicMonitor could be integrated with our other platforms, so it became the source of truth. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor We replaced N-Central with LogicMonitor, and had an extended bakeoff with Datadog. There were many things we liked (and still like) about Datadog, but its deployment model and less agnostic focus were disqualifying for our specific use case. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Our initial business requirements in 2016 were to monitor Vblock and FlexPod deployments. We had specific gaps with particular storage appliances the monitoring tool we used at that time could not monitor effectively. When evaluating the mentioned solutions, LogicMonitor was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor After switching from Solarwinds to LogicMonitor we would never go back. The higher price for LogicMonitor is well worth all the areas that this platform excels when compared to Solarwinds. The support is great, they are available directly through the web portal in a chat and I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor None Incentivized Helpful? RG Robert Grigsby Product Director Cloud & Cyber Chose LogicMonitor During the evaluation process we looked a number of other solutions, a detailed technically analysis was carried out to map functionlity, deployment and scalabilty across the solutions. The primary areas that LogicMonitor succeeded are around the simplicity of deployment, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor is good when compared with SolarWinds. Great UI and is simple to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Domotz didnt cover all devices, for example MacOS devices. Which we dont have a lot of but are still critical to monitor on our network. Solarwinds Network Device monitoring was free and great, however the display was a bit much. Also had a lot of stuff we didnt really need to … Incentivized Helpful? CS Chris St Pierre Manager of Operations Chose LogicMonitor Auvik did not provide historical data and could not monitor as many device types as LM. We found the Auvik collector to be more "buggy" and have had less issues with LM. We do feel that Auvik had a better network topology map and would clearly show device relationship. That is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Logic Monitor is not a near to the Solarwinds, Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor has a ton more ways to customize and monitor specific processes or items that other products simply cannot do. We started monitoring applications and actually logging into them to verify everything from start to finish is fully monitored and is working properly. I … Incentivized Helpful? Ali Gaeta Manager of Managed Services Chose LogicMonitor SolarWinds had the big breach just as we left it. We loved how powerful it was, and how customizable - however, it is an ON-Prem tool, and as a growing MSP, that dynamic didn't and couldn't scale. We then moved to Auvik, which had the cleanest GUI and some neat features. That … Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Nielson Security Systems Architect Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor is much easier to configure, deploy, and manage than Zabbix. Alert tuning and client configuration is clear and intuitive in LogicMonitor. Zabbix is agent based, very convoluted configuration, and is difficult to adjust tuning to minimize false positives and alert … Incentivized Helpful? AR Anand Rai Sr. Infrastructure Lead Chose LogicMonitor Solarwinds was a good tool when we were having a small amount of network devices, but once we reached to a large number of network devices, Solarwind started giving issues as it stopped respnding sometime, slowness in navigation, DB need fixes sometime etc. While the same data … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Because LogicMonitor is easy to use and not as expensive as Nagios. LogicMonitor has more functions and is more intuitive to resolve the issues raised. Incentivized Helpful? BB Bruce Barnett CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor was my team's choice for functionality, look-n-feel, and overall cost. Incentivized Helpful? Felipe Blanco Sr. Desktop Support Specialist Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor is a way easier to implement and keep it running than Zabbix due to the included SNMP template and the IA built in. The time to make it run is way faster. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LogicMonitor Auvik was much more simple to use, and the graphical representation of the network topology was very useful for networking. LogicMonitor definitely has the upper hand in the amount of information you can manage, however. Incentivized Helpful? MA Michael Allen Platform Architect Chose LogicMonitor LogicMonitor does config saves and netflow out-of-the-box, while other products we have evaluated did not. That is a huge advantage in my business, as we sell these two things as a service. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset [Wireshark is just] not the same. It feels like in incomplete product. [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] is complete, not buggy and is supported[.] Incentivized Helpful? TO Thomas Osborne Network System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Tom Public Safety Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We honestly didn't look at much beyond this because of all of the tools this toolset had in it. We found a use for a good chunk of them right away, and are finding more every month it seems like. We really wanted to make use of the majority of the tools included so we could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset To be honest, I'm not aware of any other toolset from a competitor that is remotely comparable. All other monitoring systems/vendors tend to use standard browser viewable monitoring systems and the option to use a locally installed software, to obtain the same results is not … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We have used LogicMonitor, PRTG and WhatsUp Gold previously which are similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset capability. However SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is completely unique with features like - Realtime monitoring, diagnostics on the fly, network discovery, easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset The suite of tools included is better than any other offering that I have found. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of … Incentivized Helpful? ES Eric Stephenson Manager IS Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I love the NPM package, but if you are doing one-off monitoring to diagnose, SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is more than adequate. The main drawback with SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is the monitoring is only valid as long as you have the laptop on (obviously). NPM provides for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Because it's a great tool. Very useful, convenient and reliant, We use it to monitor out production servers and it works just great. I use it pretty much every day, and it is very good monitoring system, that allows proactively troubleshoot certain areas, because you can see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds by far exceeds the abilities of other products, and is more easily tuned to the environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds NPM and NCM use a lot of the tools available in the toolset. This is a nice combo of the two with a little bit of IPAM thrown in. I would say the toolset is geared more toward the field engineer, that will be doing work that may sever communications to the rest of … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	LogicMonitor	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	LogicMonitor	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	We have several government departments and universities as our clients, and we conduct online examinations for them. Therefore, our servers require additional security to prevent unauthorized access to our systems remotely without our permission. We were performing an examination for one of our clients when someone from outside attempted to access our systems by creating a backdoor to our servers. Our team was busy handling the examination process and ensuring its smoothness. However, thanks to LogicMonitor, we were alerted at the right time, and we were able to save our data and clients' information with its help. Incentivized GK Gaurav Khandelwal DevOps Lead Read full review	[SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is] a great tool for monitoring database servers, highly recommended. The very good thing is that it keeps the history for two weeks, and you can see the time slice for all the server activities. Helps a lot to identify the memory and CPU bottlenecks, research blocking issues and kill the sessions, if necessary. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	LogicMonitor is very customizable. We can build whatever modules we need, because it uses standard protocols like HTTPS, SNMP and WMI to gather data and metrics. We like that LogicMonitor is an agentless solution for our use case. Not all customers will allow an agent-based approach to 3rd party tools. LogicMonitor has thousands of out of the box modules, which work on their own and also act as good baselines for the ones that we will end up customizing more. We are rarely starting at zero when we decide to do something new with LogicMonitor. LogicMonitor has great documentation, and support has been helpful in the instances where we've needed them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Debugging Tools Saves Time for basic checks Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review
Cons	Because of the rapid change in technology, maintaining DataSources to the most current level can be time-consuming for staff. The network discovery and mapping capabilities are not as robust when compared to other solutions While it can back-up configuration files on devices, it does not have the ability to push or modify configuration files back to devices. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it. The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	This product has met virtually all of our needs. It was easy to implement and has been simple to support. Customization has been intuitive with many options available. They keep adding features and expanding available options. The future of LogicMonitor looks even better than it is today which is very promising. The management and support teams at LogicMonitor are always helpful Incentivized AR Andrew Rigby IT Network Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Set up is super easy. Just stand up a small Linux or Windows server to act as a collector. There are no agents to install on monitored devices and all you need is SNMP or WMI access. When creating dashboards, all you have to do is find the widget on the device you want to show up and choose the menu option to add it. Incentivized Martin Sims Infrastructure Engineer Read full review	Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The sales team support we received was top notch. They worked hand in hand to make sure the product met all expectations. So far we have not really had to work with support that much; we have worked with setup team after purchase to deploy product fully. No issues so far and we are four weeks in. Incentivized Jeremy Hutton Senior Network Engineer Read full review	Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	Add good training Incentivized Idan Lerer Senior Director, US Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	The training is good but room to improve Incentivized Idan Lerer Senior Director, US Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	I did not truly dedicate myself to implementing LogicMonitor. However, I overheard the IT team members explain that "LogicMonitor is perfect for us as it has made most of the work automated, and implementation and training sessions were perfect for us." Thus, I can state that everything went smoothly with our implementation. Incentivized KC Kirsten Cornell Senior Communications Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We did not use software like LogicMonitor for the same work before, but I must say that my experience with LogicMonitor has been outstanding so far. It helps me to be free of tension. I can now concentrate on the actual work I was hired to do for my company. Incentivized EB Evgenii Bukhgammer Senior Software Developer Read full review	These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of monitoring needed for these types of issues. Having said that the toolset is not made to do full time enterprise level monitoring. With these tools and the toolset I am able to have a more complete view of the network and deliver higher levels of service and quicker responses to issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	We have been able to eliminate multiple tools through LogicMonitor's ability to use collectors to run scripts and collect any numerical data from any reachable endpoint along with the customization and widgets available for dashboards. This has allowed for reduced costs and consolidation to a single point of view. The ability to grant our clients access to see their data in real time has improved both our client satisfaction surveys and attributed to a few point gain in our NPS score. The ease of getting to the data has also reduced the quoting time for our sales teams during renewals to quantify what a client is consuming. The amount of data that LogicMonitor collects affords our technicians a wide area of review when trying to isolate an issue and find a root cause. With the standard out of box data that is collected we have often been able to set a new threshold on something not previously thought of to proactively alert us in the future after identifying those root causes. This has reduced our Major Issues from 3-5 per month to usually 1-2 or less per quarter. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Spend less time downloading free buggy tools All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools Get to the solution sooner Incentivized Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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