SolarWinds can’t hack it

LogicMonitor, the trusted partner in hybrid observability powered by AI, is a smarter way to cut costs, save your team time, and provide visibility into your infrastructure.

LogicMonitor Leads the Pack in G2’s Fall 2023 Enterprise Monitoring Reports

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Ranked as a Leader in multiple categories, LogicMonitor shines through real user reviews, boasting a 4.5-star rating. Explore the highlights now!

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LogicMonitor vs Solarwinds solution brief

LogicMonitor vs SolarWinds Solution Brief

Discover why LogicMonitor is the #1 replacement to SolarWinds because of better support, ease of doing business, and faster time-to-value.

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6 Reasons IT Pros Are Ditching Legacy Monitoring Tools

Based on Real Users from PeerSpot

As organizations shift IT assets to the cloud and their tech stack becomes more complex, SaaS-based monitoring helps teams transition from reactive monitoring to real-time observability. Find out how in this PeerSpot Report.

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LogicMonitor vs. the competition

LogicMonitor

Legacy vendors

e.g. SolarWinds, CA Broadcom

Point solution
vendors

e.g. Nagios, ScienceLogic

Cloud-focused
vendors

e.g. Datadog, Splunk

  • Application microservices
  • Log analysis
  • Cloud infrastructure & Saas applications
  • Container & pods
  • Single set of APIs
  • Single role-based access control
  • Single data platform and visualization
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Three quarters
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  • Network devices
  • On-premise servers
  • Storage
  • Virtual machines
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  • Automated onboarding
  • Prebuilt integrations
  • API-based data collection
  • Customizable dashboards
Complete
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Three quarters
Three quarters
  • Data discovery and analysis
  • Open collection
  • Data de-silozation
  • Data management
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Three quarters
  • Cloud provider health
  • Resource and performance inventory
  • Spend data monitoring
  • Cost monitoring and chargebacks
  • ROI Analysis
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  • ML-based anomaly detection
  • Intelligent alerting
  • Guided troubleshooting
  • Context-based view
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  • Automated key processes
  • Remaining secure
  • Delivering responsive support
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quotation marks

LogicMonitor is a far cry better than Solarwinds.

Systems Engineer

Membership Organization

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Solarwinds look like amateurs compared to LogicMonitor.

Richard G

Infrastructure Manager - Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Top five Benefits of LogicMonitor over SolarWinds

(That aren’t the SolarWinds hack)

This dashboard provides various metrics that are monitored for Kubernetes Services using the Kubernetes cluster API.

Onboard faster. Simple setup

LogicMonitor’s Effortless onboarding comprehensively collects data from device to cloud, so you can get up and running in as little as 1 hour. Unified, agentless technology adds next to no weight to your IT infrastructure.

  • SolarWinds is reliant on a partner model for lengthy setup and configuration and external third parties for full Professional Services coverage
  • The SNMP/agent model used at SolarWinds results in weak support for upkeep and care

Save hours every week

On average, customers who transition from SolarWinds to LogicMonitor save EACH employee that uses monitoring 4-6 hours per week.

  • Solarwinds lack of automation and unintuitive UX causes end users to waste about half a day or more per week configuring and troubleshooting.
LogicMonitor Azure Billing Dashboard from Cost Management API

Pricing that doesn’t spike month-to-month

LogicMonitor bills by monthly averages built with daily snapshots, meaning you won’t get bit with huge usage overages.

  • Solarwinds has high upfront costs and hidden fees. Each module in Solarwinds needs licensed, and the pricing can vary from license to license, making billing complicated.
LM Cloud simplifies cloud monitoring, and delivers comprehensive visibility into AWS infrastructure health and performance that is otherwise challenging to obtain.

Visibility & coverage

With vendor-agnostic monitoring; gain full-stack visibility into thousands of out-of-the-box technologies and decrease manual bandwidth by 75% coming from lSolarwindsegacy tools.

  • SolarWinds has gaps in coverage and outdated features due to painful, manual upgrades
  • SolarWinds has no out-of-box monitoring for public cloud and limited coverage once cloud instances are created

Agentless deployments increase ROI fast

Experience 4x ROI (within your first 6 months). LogicMonitor’s agentless collectors, auto-discovery, anomaly detection, and library of dashboards help end-users configure less, and innovate more.

  • A US financial services company switched to LogicMonitor and improved their MTTR from two weeks to two days and saved $75,000 overnight.

LogicMonitor is secure by design... Unlike the other guy.

LogicMonitor’s platform is secure. The following are just some of the ways LogicMonitor ensures user and systems security:

Secure architecture – LogicMonitor has RBAC, 2FA, and Encryption of data in transit and at rest. Solarwinds on the other hand lacks RBAC models…
Secure data collection – Only outbound comms are allowed from LM Collector, data is encrypted with TLS, and LM Collectors are securely locked to your environment.
Secure operations – LogicMonitor collectors are based on hardened Linux with perimeter and host-based IPS, operated out of top-tier DCs and AWS regions, all with top security measures in place.
Secure standards – Constant penetration testing ensures maximum security, SOC2 validated controls for security, high availability, and confidentiality.

Trusted by 2,000+ companies

quotation marks

To be clear – we were a SolarWinds shop prior to switching over to LogicMonitor – which did work very well until they had their vulnerabilities. But LogicMonitor is bringing more visibility to my network and telecom inventory, and making it easier to monitor and take action on alerts as well as trending metrics.

Dan Olson, Network Manager

MoneyGram International, Inc.

quotation marks

LogicMonitor takes drastically less time to implement and administer vs. other products such as SolarWinds. This alone is sufficient justification and cost savings. On top of that, the flexibility and detailed information the platform supplies makes it a no-brainer.

Director, Medium Enterprise

Financial Services Company

quotation marks

I would recommend LogicMonitor because of its ease of use and deployment. I’ve used SolarWinds, Nagios, and Zabbix – LogicMonitor was massively easier to get deployed out and keep running.

System Administrator

Non Profit

Our customers say it best

Track your company's network and devices with LogicMonitor.

It's great since we don't have to install bothersome agents on the devices or hardware that we want to monitor. I didn't even need to consult the instructions or contact customer support when I wanted to add a device; the process is simple and easy to follow.

Feb 12, 2024

Edwin Leonard

Senior Software Engineer

Matrix Networks

The tool for strategic Managed Services partners

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.

Nov 21, 2022

Ali Gaeta

Manager of Managed Services

Internetwork Engineering

Help businesses spend less time on manual tasks and consolidate existing tools

LogicMonitor dynamically scales with our network's growth. Whether we add new devices or expand into the cloud, the platform adapts seamlessly, eliminating the need for constant manual configuration. Excels in providing comprehensive visibility into our network infrastructure. It auto-discovers devices and monitors various network components, including servers, switches, routers, and cloud services.

Sep 22, 2023

Evan Rachel

Social Media Analytics

AutomationHq

Some of our happily converted customers

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Bupa monitored 500 new devices in 30 minutes

Bupa enhanced healthcare efficiency in Australia and New Zealand by consolidating network operations with LogicMonitor. Discover how they streamlined IT for better service.

Henrico IT reduced alert noise by 90%

The County of Henrico went from 5,000 daily alerts to three by reducing alert noise with LogicMonitor. Learn how it happened.

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Synoptek Reduced Costs by 80% and Alerts by 60%

Synoptek is a global systems integrator and managed IT services provider, offering comprehensive IT management and consultancy services to organizations worldwide. See how!

FAQ

Is LogicMonitor agent-based or agentless?

LogicMonitor uses an agentless collector to gather data for connected devices. No physical equipment necessary!

How is infrastructure data collected?

Infrastructure data is gathered via Collectors, which are small nodes used to grab the defined metrics within a device.

Can I monitor more than one cloud provider simultaneously at LogicMonitor?

Companies often use multi-cloud environments to distribute computing resources and minimize the risk of downtime and data loss. LM Cloud applies a comprehensive monitoring strategy to overall cloud performance. It gives users real-time, data-driven insight into every potentially impactful component of their cloud deployment through three fundamental elements: cloud provider monitoring, resource performance monitoring, and detailed ROI analysis.

What cloud providers does LogicMonitor monitor?

LM Cloud’s three component strategy (resource monitoring, cloud provider availability monitor, and ROI monitoring) does not depend on the cloud provider. Currently supported cloud services include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and SaaS apps such as Office 365, Salesforce, Zoom, or any supported by Atlassian Statuspage.io.

Is LM’s AIOps really using AI?

Yes. LogicMonitor’s AIOps goes beyond simple machine learning and pattern detection to learn and report based on individual relationships within each company’s tech stack.

Which network monitoring tool is the best?

LogicMonitor’s cloud-based observability platform is a leader for network monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and beyond.

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