Executive Summary
As organizations scale across hybrid, cloud, and distributed environments, traditional monitoring and incident management approaches struggle to keep pace. High alert volumes, fragmented tools, and manual triage workflows overwhelm operations teams, slow incident response, and increase the risk of service disruption and missed SLAs. Adopting AI‑driven event intelligence for alert and incident workflows can restore signal clarity, reduce operational burden, and enable faster, more reliable service delivery at scale.
LogicMonitor is an AI-first platform for autonomous IT that helps unify observability from user to code across hybrid infrastructure, cloud, internet performance, and digital experience into a single, connected system. At the core of the platform is Edwin AI, an AI-native embedded intelligence and orchestration layer that continuously analyzes telemetry across domains, understands system relationships and business impact, and drives intelligent action. By correlating signals, prioritizing what matters, and executing governed workflows, Edwin AI can move beyond detection to prediction and automated remediation to help shift from reactive monitoring to autonomous IT operations.
LogicMonitor commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Edwin AI.1 The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Edwin AI on their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed seven decision-makers at five organizations with experience using Edwin AI. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the experiences of the interviewees and combined the results into a single composite organization. The composite is a multinational enterprise that generates $2.5 billion in annual revenue with 5,000 employees and operates business‑critical and customer‑facing applications across hybrid cloud and on‑premises infrastructure in multiple geographies.
Interviewees said that prior to using Edwin AI, their organizations relied on IT service management platforms to ingest alerts from fragmented legacy, open‑source, and custom monitoring tools. However, prior attempts to manage incidents within this model yielded limited success, leaving teams dependent on manual alert validation, event correlation, and root cause investigation across disconnected data sources. These limitations led to high alert noise, prolonged triage and resolution times, inefficient use of skilled engineers, increased SLA risk, and reduced service reliability in complex, distributed environments.
After the investment in Edwin AI, interviewees reported that their organizations transformed how alerts and incidents were managed by introducing AI‑driven event correlation, alert intelligence, AI-assisted investigation, and automation into incident workflows. Edwin AI consolidated related alerts into actionable incidents, suppressed nonactionable noise, and surfaced contextual insights to guide faster triage and resolution. Key results from the investment include substantial reductions in alert volume and triage effort, faster root cause identification for complex incidents, improved business continuity from reduced customer-facing downtime incidents, improved SLA performance, and legacy environment savings.
Key Findings
Quantified benefits. Three-year, risk-adjusted present value (PV) quantified benefits for the composite organization include:
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Reduced alert noise by 90%. Edwin AI enables the composite organization to reduce alert volume by correlating related events, suppressing nonactionable alerts, and routing only actionable incidents to L1 teams. With fewer alerts entering triage queues and additional context provided on remaining alerts, engineers spend substantially less time reviewing, validating, and routing alerts. These efficiencies reduce backlog, improve throughput, and allow L1 resources to focus on incidents requiring attention rather than managing noise. For the composite, this yields a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV of $1.4 million.
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Reduced time spent on root cause analysis of complex incidents by 70%. Edwin AI accelerates root cause analysis by providing L2 and L3 engineers with precorrelated incident context, probable root cause insights, AI-assisted investigation capabilities and automated remediation for known issue patterns. Rather than manually correlating signals across logs, metrics, and dependent systems, engineers can interact with Edwin AI to explore incidents, validate likely causes, and act faster with more confidence. These efficiencies free expert resources to focus on prevention, reliability improvements, and higher‑value engineering initiatives. For the composite, this yields a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV of $659,000.
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Reduced mean time to resolve (MTTR) P1/P2 incidents causing customer-facing application outages by 50%. Edwin AI reduces both the frequency and duration of P1 and P2 incidents at the composite by identifying high‑impact issues earlier and accelerating resolution through faster diagnosis and automation. Shorter incident durations translate directly into increased application availability for revenue‑generating, customer‑facing systems. As a result, the composite organization protects critical business operations during incidents and recaptures revenue associated with additional uptime. For the composite, this yields a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV of $872,000.
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Reduced SLA-breaching P1/P2 incidents by 40%. By shortening detection and resolution times for high‑severity incidents, Edwin AI reduces the likelihood of SLA breaches tied to customer‑facing outages. Fewer SLA‑breaching incidents lower the composite organization’s exposure to service credits, financial penalties, and compliance‑related consequences. These avoided penalties directly improve financial performance and strengthen confidence in service delivery commitments. For the composite, this yields a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV of $367,000.
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Reduced time spent managing the alerting and event management layers of the prior monitoring environment by 70%. Edwin AI enables the composite organization to simplify alerting, correlation, and event management layers within the prior monitoring environment. As reliance on custom correlation logic, manual tuning, and cross‑tool integrations declines, L3 engineers spend less time maintaining the legacy alerting stack. The composite also decommissions overlapping point solutions over time, which reduces both tooling costs and ongoing maintenance effort. For the composite, this yields a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV of $310,000.
Unquantified benefits. Benefits that provide value for the composite organization but are not quantified for this study include:
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Faster customer onboarding. Edwin AI enables the composite organization to stabilize new environments more quickly by reducing alert noise, improving event correlation, and providing earlier visibility into system behavior. Teams spend less time cleaning up alerts, interpreting undocumented environments, and manually tuning monitoring configurations during onboarding. This accelerates the transition to steady‑state operations and reduces the hidden operational “shadow cost” incurred during early engagement phases.
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Strategic partnership with LogicMonitor team. The composite organization engages with LogicMonitor as a collaborative partner rather than a transactional vendor. Direct access to product and engineering teams allows the composite organization to test new Edwin AI capabilities, provide structured feedback, and influence development priorities. This co‑innovation model ensures that platform enhancements reflect real‑world operational needs and supports continuous improvement of AI‑driven event intelligence over time.
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Alignment with broader AI‑first business objectives. Edwin AI supports the composite organization’s broader AI and digital transformation strategy by embedding AI‑driven observability directly into daily operational workflows. Rather than treating monitoring as a standalone function, the composite organization positions AI‑powered event intelligence as foundational to scaling services, demonstrating innovation to customers, and enabling long‑term growth while maintaining security and compliance requirements.
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Improved compliance readiness and data sovereignty support. Edwin AI operates within secure, regionally hosted LogicMonitor environments designed to meet local data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. This allows the composite organization to serve regulated industries without additional architectural complexity, reduces compliance risk, and minimizes the need for operational workarounds when supporting customers with strict data residency mandates.
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Improved leadership visibility. Centralized dashboards and reporting enhanced by Edwin AI provide the composite’s operational, technical, and executive leaders with immediate visibility into system health, performance trends, and emerging anomalies. This reduces reliance on manual updates and fragmented tools, enables faster interpretation of incidents, and supports more confident, timely decision‑making before issues escalate into customer‑impacting events.
Costs. Three-year, risk-adjusted PV costs for the composite organization include:
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Fees to LogicMonitor totaling $573,000. The composite organization pays a one‑time professional services fee to LogicMonitor for initial implementation and ongoing annual fees based on an action credit consumption model. Credits are consumed as alerts are ingested, correlated, and enriched through Edwin AI’s event intelligence, automation, and AI agent capabilities. This usage‑based pricing model allows costs to scale with operational activity and alert volume.
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Implementation, training, and ongoing management costs of $301,000. The composite organization incurs internal costs to deploy, expand, and operate Edwin AI across its monitoring and incident management workflows. Costs include an initial implementation phase supported by internal L1, L2, and L3 resources, lightweight training for engineers and leadership users, and ongoing management by a small number of senior engineers. These costs reflect the effort required to onboard teams, integrate monitoring environments, and maintain alerting and correlation logic as usage expands.
The financial analysis that is based on the interviews found that a composite organization experiences benefits of $3.6 million over three years versus costs of $874,000, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $2.7 million and an ROI of 313%.
$8.4M
Revenue recaptured from reduced P1/P2 downtime over three years
Key Statistics
313%
Return on investment (ROI)
$3.6M
Benefits PV
$2.7M
Net present value (NPV)
<6 months
Payback
Benefits (Three-Year)
The LogicMonitor Edwin AI Customer Journey
Drivers leading to the Edwin AI investment
Interviews
| Role | Industry | Region | Employees | Revenue |
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| • Chief customer service officer • Platform owner • Network manager |
IT services | APAC | 600 | $250M |
| Global head, IT networks | Agriculture | Global | 10,000 | $30B |
| Senior director, infrastructure operations | Healthcare | North America | 60,000 | $20B |
| Chief technology and strategy officer | IT consulting | Global | 10,000 | $1B |
| IT infrastructure manager | Retail pharmacy | APAC | 1,500 | $5B |
Key Challenges
Before investing in Edwin AI, the interviewees’ organizations relied on IT service management (ITSM) platforms as the central intake point for alerts sourced from legacy, open-source, and custom monitoring tools. While this approach consolidated incident intake, it depended heavily on manual effort to correlate alerts, validate incidents, and determine root cause across fragmented data sources.
As environments at the interviewees’ organizations expanded through cloud adoption and distributed infrastructure, this operating model became increasingly difficult to scale. The interviewees’ organizations experienced high alert volumes, duplication of events across systems, and increasing reliance on senior engineers to interpret and contextualize alerts. This contributed to slower triage, increased operational burden, and reduced efficiency in incident handling workflows.
These limitations began to directly affect operational performance and customer-facing outcomes. Interviewees described rising SLA pressure, slower incident resolution times, and reduced service reliability in complex, distributed environments where alert noise and fragmented telemetry often obscured critical issues.
Interviewees noted how their organizations struggled with common challenges, including:
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Excessive alert noise and limited signal quality that obscured true incidents. Interviewees said their organizations experienced persistently high alert volumes driven by static thresholds, false positives, and redundant notifications emitted across infrastructure, application, and network layers. A single underlying fault, such as a degraded dependency or downstream outage, often triggered cascades of alerts across multiple systems and monitoring tools. This fragmentation made it difficult for their teams to distinguish root causes from secondary symptoms which contributed to alert fatigue and increased the risk that critical incidents were missed or addressed later than required.
The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “We had a significant number of alerts, and many of the incidents being logged were false positives. For example, CPU usage might spike during nightly backups, but it’s after business hours so it’s not necessarily an issue. Without anything other than humans reviewing those metrics, the influx of alerts meant teams weren’t able to get to them all.” -
Lack of automated correlation and root cause insight that resulted in prolonged MTTR. The interviewees’ organizations’ monitoring platforms produced large numbers of discrete alerts but lacked automated correlation, service context, and dependency awareness. As a result, their teams were required to manually investigate relationships between events, validate whether alerts represented a single incident or multiple issues, and trace problems across environments. This manual, investigative workflow delayed root cause identification, extended downtime, and increased MTTR — particularly during complex, high‑priority incidents affecting distributed systems.
The platform owner in IT services shared: “We had too many systems and platforms in place, and the tooling was fragmented. Without a single, standardized platform, it was difficult to connect signals across environments and respond efficiently. Our goal was to consolidate onto one platform that we could use in a more strategic and effective way.” -
Inefficient triage and escalation processes driven by manual workflows. Interviewees reported that L1 and L2 teams spent substantial time validating alerts, filtering noise, and determining escalation paths using manual processes. Alerts often arrived without sufficient context, enrichment, or guidance, which forced their teams to rely on experience and repeated handoffs. This slowed triage, delayed escalation to the appropriate responders, and increased operational friction — especially when incidents spanned multiple technologies or teams.
The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “When we started talking about implementing a more advanced alerting and incident management solution, one of the main reasons was that we were spending too much time triaging alerts and resolving incidents. We wanted to be more proactive as an organization, get ahead of incidents before they occurred, and allow people to spend more time on projects, growth, and innovation instead of resolving incidents.” -
Increased SLA risk and negative customer impact due to slow response times. Growing alert backlogs and delayed incident resolution increased the likelihood of SLA breaches and service penalties at the interviewees’ organizations. Without reliable prioritization based on service impact or business criticality, their teams struggled to consistently address the most important incidents first. These delays affected service availability and performance, which contributed to degraded customer experiences and reduced confidence in operational resilience.
The network manager in IT services shared: “The main callout from customers was around SLAs. We had a lot of breaches and a lot of tickets that were false positives. We were focusing on issues that weren’t critical instead of prioritizing based on impact, and we didn’t have clear dependency mapping between devices, which made it difficult to address the most impactful problems first.” -
Inefficient use of skilled engineering resources. According to interviewees, highly skilled engineers were frequently required to support routine activities such as alert deduplication, manual correlation, and monitoring configuration maintenance. This reactive workload diverted time away from higher‑value efforts including reliability engineering, automation, and platform modernization. Over time, this limited their teams’ ability to proactively improve system stability and operational maturity.
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting explained: “Compared to most environments, we have a fairly clean setup, but even for us, we knew we’d see an ROI with Edwin AI. For us, it was about freeing up time for our people to do more intelligent work because closing the same incident 18 times doesn’t add value for us or for our customers. We wanted Edwin AI to step in and help correlate events more intelligently to free up a lot of resources from continuing to spend on incident or alert management.”
The chief customer service officer in IT services explained: “Engineer burnout was big challenge we were seeing. The volume of alerts was so high that it was really hard for teams to correlate issues, identify related impacts, and assess the overall effect on our customer base.” -
Monitoring and incident management approaches that did not scale with cloud adoption and business growth. As the interviewees’ organizations expanded through acquisitions, mergers, and geographic growth, the volume and complexity of infrastructure and monitoring data increased significantly. Existing operating models required substantial manual effort to maintain visibility across distributed environments, which created challenges in maintaining a unified operational view and consistent incident response at scale. This increased complexity made it difficult to support continued business expansion without increasing operational overhead and engineering resources.
The chief customer service officer in IT services shared: “[Our organization] has grown both organically and inorganically through targeted acquisitions. As part of choosing LogicMonitor as our strategic platform, we went through a product evaluation and proof of concept. Edwin AI stood out based on its capabilities. We knew it could help us become more efficient to enable the business to scale effectively and efficiently. It supports our growth plans and helps us execute our longer‑term strategy.”
The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy explained: “Before Edwin AI, we were entering a merger that caused our number of stores to grow rapidly. At the same time, we were beginning to expand internationally. Our ability to support customers at scale and across regions was critical, and we needed a single tool and a single pane of glass to manage everything.”
Solution Requirements
The interviewees searched for a solution that could:
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Reduce alert volume and eliminate duplicate events to surface only actionable, high‑signal incidents.
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Improve incident clarity by consolidating related events into a single, meaningful incident view.
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Reduce MTTR and customer‑facing disruptions by enabling faster identification and resolution of high‑priority incidents.
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Improve SLA performance and minimize service penalties by ensuring critical incidents are prioritized and addressed first.
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Increase efficiency across L1, L2, and L3 engineering teams by reducing manual triage, escalation, and investigation effort.
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Enable engineers to focus on higher‑value reliability, automation, and modernization initiatives rather than routine alert management.
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Scale monitoring and incident management across hybrid, distributed, and cloud environments without increasing headcount.
Composite Organization
Based on the interviews, Forrester constructed a TEI framework, a composite company, and an ROI analysis that illustrates the areas financially affected. The composite organization is representative of the interviewees’ organizations, and it is used to present the aggregate financial analysis in the next section. The composite organization has the following characteristics:
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Description of composite. The composite organization is a multinational enterprise generating $2.5 billion in annual revenue with 5,000 employees. It operates a large, distributed IT environment spanning hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure and supports a portfolio of business‑critical and customer‑facing applications with defined availability and performance SLAs across multiple geographies. The environment includes multivendor systems, complex dependencies, and a high volume of operational telemetry generated across networks, infrastructure, and applications.
Prior to adopting Edwin AI, the composite organization utilized the core LogicMonitor platform alongside a mix of legacy, open-source, and custom monitoring tools. Alerts from these systems were routed into its ITSM platform through custom scripts and API integrations to create and manage incidents. While this approach centralized alert intake, limited upstream correlation and fragmented tooling resulted in high alert volumes, duplicate incidents, and significant manual triage effort. Engineering teams, particularly L1 and L2 resources, spent considerable time validating alerts, enriching tickets, and escalating issues, while L3 engineers were frequently engaged to support investigation and resolution.
The composite organization sought to improve operational efficiency, reduce alert noise, and accelerate incident response and resolution. By implementing Edwin AI, including Event Intelligence, AI Agent, and automation capabilities, the composite organization aimed to enhance event correlation, streamline incident workflows, and reduce manual effort associated with triage and root cause analysis.
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Deployment characteristics. The composite organization deploys Edwin AI’s Event Intelligence, AI automation, and AI agent across its core monitoring and incident management workflows and processes approximately 90,000 alerts in Year 1 for correlation, prioritization, and analysis. Edwin AI is integrated with the composite organization’s existing ITSM platform to enrich incidents with contextual insights and automate portions of the response process.
The solution supports a cross-functional user base of 60 users, including L1 and L2 operations staff responsible for triage and incident handling, L3 engineers focused on complex issue resolution, and a subset of leadership users leveraging reporting and insights for operational oversight.
Initial implementation is completed within one month, with three internal resources dedicated full-time to deployment activities across L1, L2, and L3 engineering levels. Lighter effort is required for a two-week incremental expansion in Year 1 to onboard the remainder of the environment, including additional teams, systems, and alert sources as the deployment scales beyond the initial rollout.
KEY ASSUMPTIONS
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$2.5 billion in annual revenue
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5,000 employees
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Edwin AI SKUs: Event Intelligence, AI automation, & AI agent
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About 90,000 alerts routed through Edwin AI for correlation and analysis in Year 1
Analysis Of Benefits
Quantified benefit data as applied to the composite
Total Benefits
| Ref. | Benefit | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total | Present Value |
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| Atr | Reduced alert noise and triage effort | $492,791 | $580,480 | $630,766 | $1,704,038 | $1,401,632 |
| Btr | Accelerated root cause analysis for complex incidents | $245,840 | $266,327 | $286,814 | $798,981 | $659,084 |
| Ctr | Improved business continuity due to reduced downtime | $255,000 | $357,000 | $459,000 | $1,071,000 | $871,713 |
| Dtr | Avoided service penalties from reduced downtime | $127,500 | $148,750 | $170,000 | $446,250 | $366,566 |
| Etr | Legacy environment savings | $106,250 | $125,800 | $145,350 | $377,400 | $309,761 |
| Total benefits (risk-adjusted) | $1,227,381 | $1,478,357 | $1,691,930 | $4,397,669 | $3,608,756 |
Reduced Alert Noise And Triage Effort
Evidence and data. Interviewees reported that prior to implementing LogicMonitor Edwin AI, their L1 operations teams were inundated with high volumes of infrastructure, network, and application alerts — many of which were duplicative, low priority, or nonactionable. L1 engineers spent significant time reviewing, validating, and dismissing alerts that did not require intervention, while important signals were frequently obscured by noise. The alerts’ limited context also required teams to manually check multiple tools to understand severity and downstream impact, which slowed triage, routing, and escalation.
After implementing Edwin AI, interviewees reported substantial reductions in alert noise due to AI‑driven event correlation, deduplication, and suppression of nonactionable alerts. Edwin AI grouped related events into single incidents and determined which alerts required human attention, preventing a large portion of irrelevant alerts from reaching queues. As a result, their engineers spent less time processing noise and more time focusing on alerts that required action.
Interviewees also noted that fewer alerts entering L1 queues reduced overall backlog and improved throughput. With less work entering triage and many repetitive patterns handled autonomously, their engineers were able to process remaining alerts more quickly and with fewer interruptions. In parallel, Edwin AI enriched alerts with contextual information, such as related events and recommended handling guidance, which reduced manual cross‑checking across tools and further shortened triage and routing time.
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The chief customer service officer in IT services shared: “The number of alerts was simply too high. On a daily basis, we were averaging more than 10,000 alerts, which made it impossible to proactively manage alerts and incidents. We also had too many systems and platforms in place, which meant the tooling was fragmented. That fragmentation contributed directly to the alert noise.”
The platform owner at the same organization continued: “When a device went down, we might get five or six different alerts for the same device. There was no intelligence saying, ‘This is the main issue and the others are related.’ The volumes were high enough that teams were getting overwhelmed. That lack of correlation was probably the biggest distraction for us, and we needed something like Edwin AI to deal with that.”
The network manager at the same organization concluded: “We also had multiple alarms sent to different people, so we didn’t know who was managing which part. In many cases, two people could end up reviewing the same alert. That created a lot of operational inefficiency.”
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The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “We were getting so many alerts and so many false positives. It took time for the team to get to the real incidents. After implementing Edwin AI and getting through the initial tuning period, within a month we saw nearly a 90% reduction in alerts. For example, if there was a power failure at a retail site, previously we would get separate alerts for network, server, and other components. Edwin AI grouped those together and tied them back to a single power outage.”
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The global head of IT networks in agriculture explained: “We wanted to reduce alert volume because our network engineers had effectively become ticket administrators. Most of their time was spent updating, moving, and closing tickets. We could have continued tuning and automating over months or years, but Edwin AI removed the need for staff to spend time doing that manually.”
The same interviewee continued: “We enabled Edwin AI in a passive mode initially to make sure it was making the right decisions. Almost immediately, we saw a 90% reduction in alerts. At first we thought we’d broken something, but the engineers reviewed the results and confirmed Edwin AI was making sound decisions.” -
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting explained: “AI is simply better at correlation than humans. With the amount of data involved, people can correlate simple things like the same server showing multiple errors at the same time. But when the volume increases, it becomes much harder to see what’s related and what isn’t. Edwin AI can recognize when many systems are emitting the same signals at the same time and group those together as a single issue. That’s where we see the real benefit. It prevents multiple related alerts from being treated as separate problems. It’s not about replacing our employees; it’s about enhancing what they already do by reducing noise and using machine learning to surface clearer signals.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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The composite operates a hybrid monitoring environment that spans infrastructure, network, and applications. It generated 350,000 alerts annually in the prior environment.
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In the prior environment, alert volumes exceeded L1 capacity, resulting in only about 50% of alerts being reviewed or triaged. The remainder were deprioritized or went unaddressed due to resource constraints.
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After implementing Edwin AI, the composite reduces alert noise by 75% in Year 1, 85% in Year 2, and 90% in Year 3.
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In the prior environment, on average, it took 7 minutes to manually triage and route each alert.
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With Edwin AI, the composite reduces the time to manually triage and route alerts by 10% in Year 1, 15% in Year 2, and 20% in Year 3.
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The fully burdened hourly rate for L1 engineers is $65.
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For this benefit, the composite has a productivity recapture rate of 50%. Resources spend half of the time they save on activities that generate business value, but not all reclaimed time is dedicated to value-added work.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this benefit:
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Operational infrastructure, network, and application monitoring alerts in the prior environment.
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Average manual triage and routing time per alert in prior environment.
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Average fully burdened hourly rate of resources reviewing and triaging alerts.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by 15%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $1.4 million.
90%
Reduction in alert noise with Edwin AI by Year 3
Reduced Alert Noise And Triage Effort
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
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| A1 | Operational infrastructure, network, and application monitoring alerts in the prior environment | Composite | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | |
| A2 | Percentage of alerts manually triaged and routed in the prior environment | Composite | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| A3 | Reduction in alert noise with Edwin AI | Interviews | 75% | 85% | 90% | |
| A4 | Alerts previously manually triaged and routed eliminated with Edwin AI | A1*A2*A3 | 131,250 | 148,750 | 157,500 | |
| A5 | Average manual triage and routing time per alert in prior environment (minutes) | Interviews | 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| A6 | Reduction in manual triage and routing effort with Edwin | Interviews | 10% | 15% | 20% | |
| A7 | Time reclaimed on manual triage and routing per alert with Edwin (minutes) | A5*A6 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.4 | |
| A8 | Subtotal: Avoided time spent on analyzing irrelevant alerts with Edwin AI (hours) (rounded) | (A4*A5)/60 minutes | 15,313 | 17,354 | 18,375 | |
| A9 | Subtotal: Avoided time spent on triaging and routing remaining alerts with Edwin AI (hours) (rounded) | ((A1-A4)*A7)/60 minutes | 2,552 | 3,690 | 4,492 | |
| A10 | Fully burdened hourly rate for an L1 engineer | Composite | $65 | $65 | $65 | |
| A11 | Productivity recapture | TEI methodology | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| At | Reduced alert noise and triage effort | (A8+A9)*A10*A11 | $579,754 | $682,918 | $742,078 | |
| Risk adjustment | ↓15% | |||||
| Atr | Reduced alert noise and triage effort (risk-adjusted) | $492,791 | $580,480 | $630,766 | ||
| Three-year total: $1,704,038 | Three-year present value: $1,401,632 | |||||
Accelerated Root Cause Analysis For Complex Incidents
Evidence and data. Interviewees shared that LogicMonitor Edwin AI reduced the time L2 and L3 engineers spent performing root cause analysis for complex incidents by introducing AI-driven diagnostics, AI-assisted investigation capabilities, and automated remediation into incident workflows. In prior environments, engineers at the interviewees’ organizations manually performed root cause analysis after escalation by correlating telemetry across logs, metrics, and dependent systems to determine the underlying cause of incidents, which required significant effort to gather, interpret, and validate data from multiple sources.
Interviewees noted that Edwin AI applied an AI agent that analyzed incident context and telemetry to identify the most likely root cause and prioritize issues based on impact to provide engineers with precorrelated insights rather than raw data. This allowed their engineers to engage with Edwin AI to ask questions, explore anomalies, and receive guided recommendations rather than manually piecing together data across tools. In addition, interviewees said automation executed known remediation steps for recurring issues, which reduced the need for manual troubleshooting and eliminating repetitive diagnostic effort for known failure patterns.
As a result, engineers at the interviewees’ organizations spent less time manually correlating data and diagnosing incidents and were able to more quickly validate AI-identified root causes and execute remediation actions. The time they saved was then redirected toward higher-value activities, including improving monitoring coverage, refining detection logic, and addressing backlog of operational improvements and preventative engineering work.
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The chief customer service officer in IT services explained: “For me, the main objective was scale: How do we scale effectively and efficiently and move from being reactive to more proactive? There is already an expectation that we should be identifying incidents before they arrive, and that’s where our terminology and thinking started to shift. We were interested in how Edwin AI could enable us to focus more on the predictive rather than just the reactive. That’s a key aspect of delivering on our commitments and being able to scale while adding value to both our people and our customers. We wanted our expert resources to focus on critical tickets instead of investigating 10,000 alerts a day, which doesn’t help with identifying the root cause before customers are impacted.”
The same interviewee continued: “More efficiently identifying the root cause has enabled us to be more effective and smarter in how we deal with incidents. That leads to being more proactive in spotting issues and fixing them more quickly instead of manually going through thousands of alerts to determine where the real problem is.”
This interviewee concluded: “The intent was to redeploy our resources toward more value‑added services and enable us to add more customers without continuously increasing headcount. We’re in a growth and scaling phase as a business, and we are using Edwin AI to help us scale without linear headcount growth. From a strategic planning perspective, automation and AI with Edwin AI have been fundamental to enabling our people to do more, support more customers, and build the business for scale.” -
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting said: “For us, it’s really about spending more time in a proactive mindset instead of a reactive one. Before Edwin AI, a lot of time was spent repeatedly investigating the same issues and manually trying to understand what was actually causing incidents. Edwin AI helps accelerate that process by clarifying the underlying issue sooner, which frees up our people from repetitive troubleshooting. As a result, they can spend more time having meaningful conversations with customers and application teams and focusing on work that actually adds value.”
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The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy explained: “When customers report poor network performance and we can’t find anything obvious initially, the team will go into Edwin AI and use the tooling to ask, ‘Do you see anything unusual?’ In several cases, it’s surfaced a particular metric that looks off. It doesn’t solve the problem 100% of the time, but it helps identify the most likely cause and gives the team better direction on where to focus.”
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The global head of IT networks in agriculture said: “The biggest benefit for us is that engineers now spend more time fixing problems than administering tickets. That was the first major improvement. Edwin AI also surfaced issues we would never have seen otherwise. Within the first few weeks, it identified a global BGP [border gateway protocol] issue that was close to bringing the company down. Without Edwin AI, we wouldn’t have caught it in time.”
This interviewee continued: “Edwin AI now automatically closes tickets when problems resolve. It recognizes when an issue is no longer present and closes the ticket unless it’s something we’ve defined as requiring further investigation. We don’t ignore issues, but this automation reduces unnecessary work.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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The composite organization has a team of 15 L2 and L3 engineers responsible for root cause analysis for complex incidents.
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In the prior environment, the engineers spent an average of 30% of their time on root cause analysis.
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With Edwin AI in place, the engineers experience a 60% productivity lift on root cause analysis in Year 1, 65% in Year 2, and 70% in Year 3.
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The fully burdened hourly rate for L2 and L3 engineers is $103.
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For this benefit, the composite has a productivity recapture rate of 50%. Resources spend half of the time they save on activities that generate business value, but not all reclaimed time is dedicated to value-added work.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this benefit:
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Resources dedicated performing root cause analysis of complex incidents.
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Percentage of resource time spent on root cause analysis.
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Average fully burdened hourly rate for resources performing root cause analysis.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by 15%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $659,000.
70%
Reduction in time spent on root cause analysis with Edwin AI by Year 3
Accelerated Root Cause Analysis For Complex Incidents
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
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| B1 | L2/L3 engineers performing root cause analysis | Composite | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| B2 | Average percentage of engineer time spent on root cause analysis of complex incidents | Composite | 30% | 30% | 30% | |
| B3 | Reduction in time spent on root cause analysis with Edwin AI | Interviews | 60% | 65% | 70% | |
| B4 | Subtotal: Total time reclaimed on root cause analysis with Edwin AI (hours) | B1*B2*B3*2,080 hours | 5,616 | 6,084 | 6,552 | |
| B5 | Fully burdened hourly rate for an L2/L3 engineer | Composite | $103 | $103 | $103 | |
| B6 | Productivity recapture | TEI methodology | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| Bt | Accelerated root cause analysis for complex incidents | B4*B5*B6 | $289,224 | $313,326 | $337,428 | |
| Risk adjustment | ↓15% | |||||
| Btr | Accelerated root cause analysis for complex incidents (risk-adjusted) | $245,840 | $266,327 | $286,814 | ||
| Three-year total: $798,981 | Three-year present value: $659,084 | |||||
Improved Business Continuity Due To Reduced Downtime
Evidence and data. Interviewees explained that before implementing LogicMonitor Edwin AI, customer-facing P1 and P2 incidents required manual investigation across multiple monitoring systems, including logs, metrics, and infrastructure telemetry. This often led to extended mean time to resolution as their engineers manually correlated signals, identified likely causes, and coordinated remediation across teams. In many cases, the lack of early signal prioritization and automation contributed to prolonged service degradation and increased application downtime. These inefficiencies reduced overall business continuity as critical applications remained unavailable longer than necessary during incidents, which directly impacted revenue-generating systems and, by extension, customer experience.
With Edwin AI, interviewees’ organizations experienced a reduction in both the frequency and duration of customer-facing outages. Edwin’s AI agent analyzed incident patterns and telemetry to identify probable root causes more quickly and prioritize high-impact issues, which sped up diagnosis during active incidents. In addition, automation executed known remediation steps for routine and recurring issues to reduce manual intervention and further shorten resolution times. Faster identification of incident drivers, coupled with accelerated remediation, reduced incident duration and mitigated customer‑facing outages, thus improving application availability and ensuring continuity of critical business operations for the interviewees’ organizations.
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The global head of IT networks in agriculture explained: “Networks are living, breathing things and they break, but incidents are now consolidated into a much smaller number of tickets. We get much more targeted tickets, which means we spend far less time diagnosing. We know about problems quicker, we get to the root cause faster, and we’re not being bombarded with noise like a site issue triggering 50 device alerts. Edwin AI does that correlation work for us and tells us roughly where the issue is, and most of the time that’s exactly where it is. That way, we can get to work on resolving it much sooner.”
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The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy shared: “We had issues at one of our distribution centers where handheld devices were failing. We couldn’t see anything obvious in the network monitoring or management platforms. The only sign was some packet loss, but it wasn’t clear where it was coming from. Using Edwin AI, the team correlated that metric with system logs and discovered a misconfiguration that flooded a server with requests and caused the system to go down. We resolved it in about an hour and a half. Without Edwin AI, it would have taken 4 to 5 hours to find.”
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The senior director of infrastructure operations in healthcare said: “There has been a decline in the [duration] of customer-impacting downtime events we’ve had and a lot of that comes down to our people being able to respond faster. As we continue to reduce incidents, we expect those numbers to keep improving. We still generate over 100,000 alerts a month, but a lot of work has gone into balancing configurations so we’re not alerting too soon and not missing something critical. Reducing alerts also helped reduce the number of actionable incidents overall.”
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The network manager in IT services shared: “We definitely had instances where we were able to spot issues with Edwin AI before they happened; before a firewall or a device went into a state where it was essentially not passing traffic, or before a CPU or memory issue caused a problem. Before [Edwin AI], we had customers going down and calling out saying, ‘If you’re monitoring, how are you not capturing those instances?’ A lot of these issues creep up over time like CPU gradually increasing. We should have spotted that before it happened so we could work on it and fix it. There have definitely been fewer of those missed instances.”
This interviewee continued: “The biggest benefit I see overall — and something customers really appreciate — is that we now have much more time within the engineering team to focus on critical vulnerabilities and patch management, which we were lacking before. We are now following industry standards and best practices. We’re not missing any critical vulnerabilities, and the environments we manage are securely patched and properly monitored.” -
The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “We had a couple of incidents that impacted the organization, and our ability to triage those incidents was slowed or diminished because we didn’t have tooling that was smart enough to point engineers in the right direction or give them the context they needed. These were incidents where the time to resolution would have been dramatically better if Edwin AI had been in place.”
The same interviewee continued: “Edwin AI allows us to correlate what was happening at the server OS level and the database level, and how that then related to the application server. It was able to bring all of that together and point to something as it was occurring, so we could get onto it straight away and avoid an issue. In other cases, it allowed us to quickly find what the problem was and fix it; whether that was a job being stuck or a memory leak on a server impacting the database.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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In the prior environment, the composite experienced 30 P1 and P2 incidents annually that result in customer‑facing application outages
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With Edwin AI in place, the number of P1 and P2 incidents the composite experiences is reduced by 20% in Year 1, 25% in Year 2, and 30% in Year 3.
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In the prior environment, each P1 and P2 incident that resulted in customer-facing application outages lasts an average of 4 hours.
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With Edwin AI, the composite experiences reduces MTTR for P1/P2 incidents by 40% in Year 1, 45% in Year 2, and 50% in Year 3.
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For every hour of uptime for Edwin AI-monitored customer-facing applications, the composite organization generates $300,000.
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The composite organization has an operating margin of 10%.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this benefit:
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Number of P1/P2 incidents that cause customer-facing application outages in the prior environment.
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Average duration of a P1/P2 incident in the prior environment.
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Revenue generated per hour of uptime for Edwin AI-monitored customer-facing applications.
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Operating margin.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by 15%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $872,000.
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Reduction in MTTR with Edwin AI by Year 3
Improved Business Continuity Due To Reduced Downtime
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
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| C1 | P1/P2 incidents causing customer-facing application outages in prior environment | Composite | 30 | 30 | 30 | |
| C2 | Reduction in incidents with Edwin AI | Interviews | 20% | 25% | 30% | |
| C3 | Incidents avoided with Edwin AI | C1*C2 | 6 | 8 | 9 | |
| C4 | Average length of a P1/P2 incident in prior environment (hours) | Composite | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| C5 | Reduction in MTTR with Edwin AI | Interviews | 40% | 45% | 50% | |
| C6 | Time reclaimed per incidents with Edwin AI (hours) | C4*C5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 | |
| C7 | Additional uptime with Edwin AI (hours) | C3*C6 | 10 | 14 | 18 | |
| C8 | Revenue generated per hour of uptime for Edwin-monitored customer-facing applications | Composite | $300,000 | $300,000 | $300,000 | |
| C9 | Revenue recaptured with Edwin AI | C7*C8 | $3,000,000 | $4,200,000 | $5,400,000 | |
| C10 | Operating margin | Composite | 10% | 10% | 10% | |
| Ct | Improved business continuity due to reduced downtime | C9*C10 | $300,000 | $420,000 | $540,000 | |
| Risk adjustment | ↓15% | |||||
| Ctr | Improved business continuity due to reduced downtime (risk-adjusted) | $255,000 | $357,000 | $459,000 | ||
| Three-year total: $1,071,000 | Three-year present value: $871,713 | |||||
Avoided Service Penalties From Reduced Downtime
Evidence and data. Interviewees said that SLA breaches represented a material operational and financial risk prior to implementing Edwin AI, both for MSPs with contractual service‑credit obligations and for enterprises operating under internal or regulatory service‑level requirements. When critical services were not restored within defined timeframes, the interviewees’ organizations faced financial penalties, compliance exposure, or formal remediation actions.
Interviewees noted that SLA breaches were primarily driven by delayed detection of P1 and P2 incidents and prolonged resolution during customer‑facing outages. In prior environments, their engineers relied on manual correlation of alerts and telemetry across multiple systems to identify root causes and coordinate remediation, which extended incident duration and increased the likelihood of exceeding SLA thresholds.
With Edwin AI, interviewees explained that the frequency of SLA‑breaching incidents declined as AI‑driven correlation accelerated identification of probable causes and prioritized high‑impact incidents. As a result, the interviewees’ organizations experienced fewer SLA violations and reduced exposure to SLA‑related financial penalties, service credits, and compliance‑related obligations; in several cases, SLA penalties were significantly reduced or even completely eliminated following implementation.
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The network manager in IT services shared: “[Before Edwin AI], it was really hard to track down the issues and that caused a lot of SLA breaches and a lot of callouts from our clients. Customers were asking us to focus more on providing a proactive service by spotting issues before they happened and before they had a big impact on their environments.”
The chief customer service officer at the same organization explained: “We did an exercise recently as part of a separate review with finance, and frankly speaking, the amount of rebates related to us missing SLAs has gone to zero since using Edwin AI, which is big for us. When we reviewed the last 12 months, anything SLA‑related where we weren’t able to respond or meet customer requirements had dropped completely. There were zero service credits related to us missing alerts or not responding.”
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The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy explained: “We’ve definitely been able to reduce service penalties related to incidents that breach SLA. One example is our data delivery services; we provide sales data to marketing organizations, which depend heavily on our database and data platforms being available. Before, we had a significant number of issues affecting those systems. [With Edwin AI], we’re able to identify database-related problems much faster, and the number of incidents has dropped substantially. These are the types of services where penalties apply if we don’t deliver data on time, so reducing those disruptions has directly lowered our exposure.”
The IT infrastructure manager continued: “LogicMonitor brought us into the high 80s in terms of availability, and with Edwin AI, we were able to quickly move into the mid-to-high 90s. At one stage, we were still around 87%, which put us below our target range but that improved rapidly. Now, we’re consistently operating between 98% and 99%. For example, we reached 98.8% in February, and we haven’t fallen below 97% since August of last year. If we exclude external factors like power or environmental incidents, we’re effectively meeting our 99% SLA targets.”
This interviewee concluded: “The month before we introduced Edwin AI, we had 104 incidents that breached SLA. In the first month with Edwin AI, that dropped to 15. The highest we’ve seen since then was 65, which occurred during the early rollout when we were enabling additional metrics across teams. Even during that period of expansion, the reduction was still significant.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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The composite organization operates a portfolio of customer-facing applications and services with defined SLA commitments, where missed SLAs result in financial penalties, service credits, or compliance‑related consequences. It experienced an average of 100 P1/P2 incidents annually that breach SLA in the prior environment.
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The composite assumes an average monthly contract value of $100,000 for services exposed to SLA breaches with penalties equivalent to 5% of contract value, which translates to an average cost of $5,000 per SLA-breaching incident.
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With Edwin AI, the composite reduction the number of SLA-breaching incidents by 30% in Year 1, 35% in Year 2, and 40% in Year 3.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this benefit:
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Number of P1/P2 incidents that breach SLA in prior environment
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Average cost per SLA-breaching incident.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by 15%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $367,000.
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Reduction in SLA breaching incidents with Edwin AI by Year 3.
Avoided Service Penalties From Reduced Downtime
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
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| D1 | Average P1/P2 incidents that breach SLA in prior environment | Composite | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| D2 | Average monthly contract value of services exposed to SLA breaches | Composite | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |
| D3 | Breach penalty cost as a percentage of average monthly contract value | Interviews | 5% | 5% | 5% | |
| D4 | Average cost per incident | D2*D3 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | |
| D5 | Percentage reduction in SLA breaching incidents with Edwin AI | Interviews | 30% | 35% | 40% | |
| Dt | Avoided service penalties from reduced downtime | D1*D4*D5 | $150,000 | $175,000 | $200,000 | |
| Risk adjustment | ↓15% | |||||
| Dtr | Avoided service penalties from reduced downtime (risk-adjusted) | $127,500 | $148,750 | $170,000 | ||
| Three-year total: $446,250 | Three-year present value: $366,566 | |||||
Legacy Environment Savings
Evidence and data. Interviewees explained that prior to adopting Edwin AI, their organizations operated fragmented monitoring environments composed of legacy, open-source, and custom-built observability tools that were supported by extensive integrations and supplementary event-processing logic. These distributed environments created significant software, integration, and maintenance overhead. Teams spent considerable time maintaining multiple monitoring systems, managing event and alert integrations between tools, and operating custom correlation and routing logic required to make monitoring telemetry usable for incident response. Interviewees noted that Edwin AI helped minimize the need for ongoing maintenance of fragmented alert processing workflows and correlation logic layered on top of monitoring tools, which reduced both operational overhead and the effort required to reconcile and interpret events across systems.
The global head of IT networks in agriculture said: “We had a variety of other tools, and they were all capable of producing alerts, but they were what I would call niche tools. They did very specific jobs, but what we didn’t have was a good, generic manager‑of‑managers type of tool. With traditional monitoring tools, it’s often difficult to see the wood for the trees. You end up spending an awful lot of time tuning the tool. That’s not to say you don’t do any tuning in an AI world, but there’s significantly more intelligence and a lot less tuning required.”
This interviewee continued: “I have six people on my NMS [network management system] team, five of whom work on our tooling stack, which includes LogicMonitor’s core platform and Edwin AI. That team doesn’t spend a lot of time inside LogicMonitor day to day, because much of their effort is focused on future solutions and automation. Before Edwin AI, those engineers would spend anywhere from 50% to 75% of their day on tuning. Now it’s closer to 20%. That reduction is because of the intelligence and automation in Edwin AI. We spend almost no time on manual tuning anymore. We still do some teaching when Edwin AI misses a new fault case, but that’s happening less and less as the model continues to learn.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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In the prior environment, the composite operated a fragmented monitoring ecosystem spanning legacy, open-source, and custom-built observability tools, with an estimated $50,000 in annual spend on redundant point solutions supporting alert ingestion, correlation logic, and integrations.
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With Edwin AI, the composite gradually decommissions overlapping monitoring and event-processing tools and reduces tooling spend by 70% in Year 1, 80% in Year 2, and 90% in Year 3.
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In the prior environment, the composite had three L3 engineers responsible for maintaining the monitoring and event management environment, including managing integrations, tuning correlation rules, maintaining alert routing logic, and reconciling cross-system event data. Each resource spent approximately 50% of their time on these activities in the prior environment.
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With Edwin AI, time spent managing the alerting, correlation, and event management layers of the prior monitoring environment decreases by 50% in Year 1, 60% in Year 2, and 70% in Year 3.
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The average fully burdened annual salary for an L3 engineer is $240,000.
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For this benefit, the composite has a productivity recapture rate of 50%. Resources spend half of the time they save on activities that generate business value, but not all reclaimed time is dedicated to value-added work.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this benefit:
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Point solution spend in prior environment.
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Number of resources working on management of prior environment.
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Fully burdened annual salary for resources managing prior environment.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by 15%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $310,000.
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Reduction in time spent managing the alerting and event management layers with Edwin AI
Legacy Environment Savings
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
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| E1 | Point solution spend in prior environment | Composite | $50,000 | $50,000 | $50,000 | |
| E2 | Decommission rate with Edwin AI | Interviews | 70% | 80% | 90% | |
| E3 | Subtotal: Duplicative tooling cost savings | E1*E2 | $35,000 | $40,000 | $45,000 | |
| E4 | L3 engineers working on management of prior environment | Composite | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| E5 | Percentage of time spent managing prior environment | Composite | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| E6 | Reduction in time spent on management with Edwin AI | Interviews | 50% | 60% | 70% | |
| E7 | Fully burdened annual salary for an L3 engineer | Composite | $240,000 | $240,000 | $240,000 | |
| E8 | Productivity recapture | TEI methodology | 50% | 50% | 50% | |
| E9 | Subtotal: Prior environment management savings | E4*E5*E6*E7*E8 | $90,000 | $108,000 | $126,000 | |
| Et | Legacy environment savings | E3+E9 | $125,000 | $148,000 | $171,000 | |
| Risk adjustment | ↓15% | |||||
| Etr | Legacy environment savings (risk-adjusted) | $106,250 | $125,800 | $145,350 | ||
| Three-year total: $377,400 | Three-year present value: $309,761 | |||||
Unquantified Benefits
Interviewees mentioned the following additional benefits that their organizations experienced but were not able to quantify:
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Faster customer onboarding. Interviewees, particularly those whose organizations were operating managed service models, explained that Edwin AI accelerated the observability and stabilization portion of customer onboarding. By improving event correlation, reducing alert noise, and providing earlier visibility into new environments, their teams were able to bring customers into steady‑state operations quicker and with less manual effort. This reduced the time engineers spent cleaning up alerts, understanding undocumented environments, and stabilizing monitoring configurations during the early stages of new customer engagements.
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting explained: “For most MSPs, you’re going to lose money in the first months of any new contract. You need to onboard the customer, spend time, get documentation in place, and get observability up and running. There are always things you weren’t aware of at the start, and all of that takes time from your people. The more we can reduce that and the better we get at it, the less we overspend in those early months. It’s shadow spend; everyone knows it’s there, but it’s very difficult to calculate.” -
Strategic partnership with the LogicMonitor team. Interviewees described their relationship with LogicMonitor as a collaborative engagement centered on testing, refining, and providing structured feedback on Edwin AI and related platform capabilities. Rather than a transactional vendor model, the interviewees’ organizations worked directly with product and forward deployed engineering (FDEs) teams to evaluate new features in production-like environments and influence ongoing development priorities, particularly around AI-driven event intelligence. This engagement model ensured that enhancements reflected real operational requirements across complex environments and supported continuous platform evolution.
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting shared: “We’re working with LogicMonitor on other elements they’re taking to market, pushing, testing, and validating, because we’re a little bit different from some other providers. We’re very strongly opinionated about how things should function and work. That was part of why we chose LogicMonitor. There’s a very strong focus on product development and feedback cycling.”
The platform owner in IT services explained: “We work very closely with LogicMonitor. We have access to everything that’s available, we ask for preview time, and we’re testing new features while providing input into what we’d like to see next, which they’re actively working to build.”
The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “Our engineer, who was the SME [subject matter expert] on this, had direct access to their engineering teams and weekly meetings to give feedback and get advice if there was a better way of doing something. They were very engaging. This has been my most genuine partnership. I deal with many technology providers, including much larger commercial partnerships, but this one has been very genuine from the start.” -
Alignment with broader AI‑first business objectives. Interviewees described Edwin AI as an important component of their organizations’ broader AI and digital transformation strategies. Rather than treating monitoring as a standalone operational function, their organizations positioned AI‑driven observability as foundational to demonstrating innovation to customers, delivering value at scale, and supporting long‑term growth. Edwin AI enabled the interviewees’ organizations to operationalize AI in day‑to‑day workflows while meeting required security and compliance standards.
The platform owner in IT services said, “We wanted to dive into the AI space further, and this was an opportunity to showcase to our customers that we were using AI as part of a larger digital transformation.”
The chief customer service officer at the same organization continued: “As a business, we’re leading with AI. We’re making investments across our end‑to‑end service portfolio, and monitoring is a key aspect of enabling the business to scale. That was part of our roadmap. When it comes to the customer success journey, it all starts with visibility; showing value and showing that we’re continuously investing in our systems and platforms to become more AI‑first.” -
Improved compliance readiness and data sovereignty support. Interviewees noted that Edwin AI strengthened their organizations’ ability to meet data sovereignty and regulatory requirements by operating within a secure, regionally hosted LogicMonitor environment designed to support local legislative and customer data residency expectations. This reduced the need for additional architectural adjustments or operational workarounds when serving regulated customers, including those in government, financial services, and nonprofit sectors.
The chief customer service officer in IT services shared: “A big element of us investing in LogicMonitor products was data sovereignty. They have made a strategic investment to build the platform in Australia to meet local legislation. We were compliant before, but this enabled a solution that is fully security‑vetted and meets requirements for all the verticals our customers are in, which allows them to use Edwin AI to monitor their services.” -
Improved leadership visibility. Interviewees reported that dashboards, reporting, and centralized visibility within the core LogicMonitor platform, which were enhanced by Edwin AI, improved situational awareness across operational, technical, and executive teams. Rather than relying on fragmented monitoring tools, manual correlation of alerts, or ad hoc updates from teams, their users leveraged Edwin AI’s centralized intelligence layer and observability views to assess system health, performance trends, and emerging anomalies. This improved visibility, enabled faster interpretation of incidents and more confident decision-making, and supported earlier identification of potential issues before they escalated into customer-impacting events.
The senior director of infrastructure operations in healthcare explained: “There are time savings for operational and technical leadership from having dashboards that give immediate awareness. We had an issue this morning, and because the dashboards were already built, there was immediate understanding of what was going on.”
Flexibility
The value of flexibility is unique to each customer. There are multiple scenarios in which a customer might implement Edwin AI and later realize additional uses and business opportunities, including:
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Expanding AI-driven event intelligence toward autonomous IT and broader operational use cases. Interviewees indicated that the ability of Edwin AI Agents to correlate high volumes of alerts, reduce noise, and prioritize incidents created a strong foundation for expanding AI-driven intelligence beyond initial monitoring and triage use cases. As the interviewees’ organizations gained confidence in AI-driven correlation and event summarization, they saw increasing potential to apply these capabilities across a wider set of operational domains where large-scale event data must be interpreted quickly to support prioritization and decision-making.
Interviewees explained that these capabilities represented early but meaningful steps toward more autonomous IT, where AI-driven systems augment operational teams by identifying emerging risk conditions, surfacing patterns across infrastructure and applications, and providing contextual insights that support proactive response. Interviewees said that over time, their organizations expect to extend usage beyond reactive incident management into adjacent workflows, such as problem identification, operational health analysis, post-incident learning, and service reliability oversight. Rather than viewing Edwin AI Agents as a point solution, interviewees described it as a foundational intelligence layer that can evolve alongside their IT maturity and enable progressively more autonomous operational workflows.
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting said: “We’re not just buying a piece of software in Edwin AI. It’s really a partnership around how they’re building the platform, what they’re doing with the AI modules, and how we can interact with those to do more and better on our side for the future.”
Flexibility would also be quantified when evaluated as part of a specific project (described in more detail in Total Economic Impact Approach).
Analysis Of Costs
Quantified cost data as applied to the composite
Total Costs
| Ref. | Cost | Initial | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total | Present Value |
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| Ftr | Fees to LogicMonitor | $26,250 | $210,000 | $220,500 | $231,525 | $688,275 | $573,339 |
| Gtr | Implementation, training, and ongoing management effort | $72,072 | $107,052 | $83,292 | $83,292 | $345,708 | $300,807 |
| Total costs (risk-adjusted) | $98,322 | $317,052 | $303,792 | $314,817 | $1,033,983 | $874,146 |
Fees To LogicMonitor
Evidence and data. Interviewees reported that Edwin AI was priced using an AI consumption model, where their organizations purchased a defined pool of AI action credits that were consumed as alerts were correlated into data insights and enriched through automated, AI-driven root cause analysis, or through user-initiated AI troubleshooting or remediation actions across Edwin AI products, including Event Intelligence, AI Automation, and AI Agent.
Interviewees also used professional services LogicMonitor provided for initial implementation and one-time AI onboarding expertise, including customer AI models. Each “action” represented discrete usage of Edwin AI functionality, including alert ingestion, correlation, summarization, and routing into downstream IT service management workflows. Interviewees described this model as flexible and usage-driven as it allowed costs to scale with fluctuating operational activity and alert volume rather than fixed licensing alone or with the scale-up of monitoring environments.
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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The composite pays a one-time $25,000 professional services fee to LogicMonitor for initial AI platform implementation and AI onboarding expertise, including environment setup, configuration of Edwin AI, and initial enablement of alert ingestion and event correlation workflows.
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The composite purchases Edwin AI using an action credit-based consumption model, where a defined annual allocation of credits is consumed as alerts are ingested, correlated, and enriched through AI-driven event intelligence workflows with additional credits purchased over time as consumption increases due to factors such as higher alert volumes and expanded usage across teams and environments.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this cost:
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The level and complexity of professional services required for initial implementation and onboarding, including environment configuration, workflow setup, and integration effort, which may vary by organizational maturity and existing monitoring architecture.
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Variability in alert volume and incident intensity across environments, which directly influences action credit consumption levels and the need for custom AI models to be set up within Edwin AI or more AI action credits.
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Differences in the scope of Edwin AI deployment, including the number of monitored systems and integrations and the extent of usage across the three AI products (Event Intelligence, AI Automation, and AI Agent), which can accelerate or moderate credit consumption.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this cost upward by 5%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $573,000.
Fees To LogicMonitor
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Initial | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
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| F1 | Professional services fee | LogicMonitor | $25,000 | |||
| F2 | Annual fee for Edwin AI | LogicMonitor | $200,000 | $210,000 | $220,500 | |
| Ft | Fees to LogicMonitor | F1+F2 | $25,000 | $200,000 | $210,000 | $220,500 |
| Risk adjustment | ↑5% | |||||
| Ftr | Fees to LogicMonitor (risk-adjusted) | $26,250 | $210,000 | $220,500 | $231,525 | |
| Three-year total: $688,275 | Three-year present value: $573,339 | |||||
Implementation, Training, And Ongoing Management Effort
Evidence and data. Interviewees shared that their organizations incurred costs across implementation, training, and ongoing management activities associated with deploying Edwin AI across distributed IT environments. Implementation at the interviewees’ organizations typically began with a controlled rollout across specific teams (e.g., network, database, systems, and service desk teams) before expanding more broadly. This phased approach ensured data quality, allowed validation of AI-driven alert correlation, and reduced operational disruption during onboarding. In many cases, both internal technical resources and expertise from the LogicMonitor team supported implementation for initial configuration and validation, including all level (L1/L2/L3) resources and user acceptance testing (UAT) activities to ensure production readiness across integrated monitoring environments.
Following deployment, interviewees’ organizations continued to dedicate limited internal resources to monitoring system behavior, maintaining integrations, and refining alert thresholds and correlation logic as additional teams and use cases were onboarded. Interviewees described training as relatively lightweight due to the platform’s intuitive user experience, typically consisting of brief enablement sessions and hands‑on exposure to alert workflows and historical incident analysis. The trained user base primarily included L1, L2, and L3 engineers involved in incident triage and resolution, along with a smaller group of leadership and operations stakeholders responsible for oversight, validation of AI‑driven insights, and operational reporting.
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The IT infrastructure manager in retail pharmacy said: “We enabled Edwin AI across the environment all at once but how we controlled it was at the integration layer. While we turned it on across the tenant, we enabled the Edwin AI integration only for teams as we onboarded them. We started with the network team, then moved to the database team, the systems team, and expanded from there to the service desk and some of the other teams. Rolling it out team by team turned out to be the best approach.”
This interviewee continued: “Training our engineers probably only takes about a day. We already have a lot of internal training material on how our systems work and how we monitor them. As long as someone is there to explain the nuances, [Edwin AI] is a very intuitive tool compared to a lot of others in the market.” -
The chief technology and strategy officer in IT consulting explained: “We took a structured rollout approach. You need a reasonably clean environment to roll AI solutions into. If you feed them bad data, you’ll get bad output, so having a clean baseline is critical. We rolled Edwin AI out to a very controlled subset of customers and once we saw success, we approved the full rollout.”
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The network manager in IT services said: “Training is pretty straightforward. The user interface is intuitive and following the alert history and the actions that led up to an alert is easy to understand. We ran two training sessions of about 30 to 45 minutes each to walk through the interface. After that, most people were comfortable navigating it. The thing that took the most time was understanding the types of alerts and thresholds that feed into Edwin AI. Edwin AI itself is very straightforward.”
Modeling and assumptions. Based on the interviews, Forrester assumes the following about the composite organization:
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The composite completes an initial implementation period of one month, during which three internal resources across L1, L2, and L3 engineering levels dedicate 100% of their time to deployment activities, including configuration, integration setup, and validation of Edwin AI across monitoring environments.
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The composite extends implementation through an additional expansion phases that stretches over half a month in Year 1. The same three resources spend 100% of their time during that period to onboard remaining environments, teams, and alert sources as the deployment scales beyond the initial controlled rollout.
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The fully burdened hourly rate for implementation resources is $90.
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The composite trains 60 total Edwin AI users in the initial phase, which represents a mix of L1/L2/L3 engineers and leadership personnel responsible for monitoring, incident response, and operational oversight.
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In Years 1 through 3, the composite retrains or onboards approximately 10 users annually to account for staff turnover, role changes, new team members, and incremental training required for existing users as new Edwin AI capabilities, workflows, and alert correlation functionality are introduced over time.
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Each trained user completes 4 hours of training.
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Two L3 engineers spend 15% of their time on ongoing management.
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The average fully burdened annual salary for an L3 engineer is $240,000.
Risks. Forrester recognizes that these results may not be representative of all experiences. The following factors may impact this cost:
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The scope and complexity of the monitoring environment at deployment time, including the number of legacy, open-source, and custom-built tools being integrated and the quality of existing alert data and routing logic.
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The pace of rollout across teams and environments, including whether the organization follows a phased onboarding approach versus a more accelerated enterprisewide deployment, which can affect implementation effort and training requirements.
Results. To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this cost upward by 10%, yielding a three-year, risk-adjusted total PV (discounted at 10%) of $301,000.
Implementation, Training, And Ongoing Management Effort
| Ref. | Metric | Source | Initial | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
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| G1 | Implementation period (months) | Interviews | 1 | 0.5 | ||
| G2 | Resources involved in implementation | Composite | 3 | 3 | ||
| G3 | Percentage of time spent on implementation | Interviews | 100% | 100% | ||
| G4 | Fully burdened hourly rate for an implementation resource | Composite | $90 | $90 | ||
| G5 | Subtotal: Implementation effort | G1*160 hours*G2*G3*G4 | $43,200 | $21,600 | ||
| G6 | Edwin AI users | Composite | 60 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| G7 | Time spent training (hours) | Interviews | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| G8 | Fully burdened hourly rate for an Edwin AI user | Composite | $93 | $93 | $93 | $93 |
| G9 | Subtotal: Training effort | G6*G7*G8 | $22,320 | $3,720 | $3,720 | $3,720 |
| G10 | L3 engineers involved in ongoing management | Composite | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| G11 | Percentage of L3 engineering time spent on ongoing management | Interviews | 15% | 15% | 15% | |
| G12 | Fully burdened annual salary for an L3 engineer | E7 | $240,000 | $240,000 | $240,000 | |
| G13 | Subtotal: Ongoing management effort | G10*G11*G12 | $72,000 | $72,000 | $72,000 | |
| Gt | Implementation, training, and ongoing management effort | G5+G13+G9 | $65,520 | $97,320 | $75,720 | $75,720 |
| Risk adjustment | ↑10% | |||||
| Gtr | Implementation, training, and ongoing management effort (risk-adjusted) | $72,072 | $107,052 | $83,292 | $83,292 | |
| Three-year total: $345,708 | Three-year present value: $300,807 | |||||
Financial Summary
Consolidated Three-Year, Risk-Adjusted Metrics
Cash Flow Chart (Risk-Adjusted)
Cash Flow Analysis (Risk-Adjusted)
| Initial | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total | Present Value | |
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| Total costs | ($98,322) | ($317,052) | ($303,792) | ($314,817) | ($1,033,983) | ($874,146) |
| Total benefits | $0 | $1,227,381 | $1,478,357 | $1,691,930 | $4,397,669 | $3,608,756 |
| Net benefits | ($98,322) | $910,329 | $1,174,565 | $1,377,113 | $3,363,686 | $2,734,610 |
| ROI | 313% | |||||
| Payback | <6 months |
Please Note
The financial results calculated in the Benefits and Costs sections can be used to determine the ROI, NPV, and payback period for the composite organization’s investment. Forrester assumes a yearly discount rate of 10% for this analysis.
These risk-adjusted ROI, NPV, and payback period values are determined by applying risk-adjustment factors to the unadjusted results in each Benefit and Cost section.
The initial investment column contains costs incurred at “time 0” or at the beginning of Year 1 that are not discounted. All other cash flows are discounted using the discount rate at the end of the year. PV calculations are calculated for each total cost and benefit estimate. NPV calculations in the summary tables are the sum of the initial investment and the discounted cash flows in each year. Sums and present value calculations of the Total Benefits, Total Costs, and Cash Flow tables may not exactly add up, as some rounding may occur.
From the information provided in the interviews, Forrester constructed a Total Economic Impact™ framework for those organizations considering an investment in Edwin AI.
The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision. Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that Edwin AI can have on an organization.
Due Diligence
Interviewed LogicMonitor stakeholders and Forrester analysts to gather data relative to Edwin AI.
Interviews
Interviewed seven decision-makers at five organizations using Edwin AI to obtain data about costs, benefits, and risks.
Composite Organization
Designed a composite organization based on characteristics of the interviewees’ organizations.
Financial Model Framework
Constructed a financial model representative of the interviews using the TEI methodology and risk-adjusted the financial model based on issues and concerns of the interviewees.
Case Study
Employed four fundamental elements of TEI in modeling the investment impact: benefits, costs, flexibility, and risks. Given the increasing sophistication of ROI analyses related to IT investments, Forrester’s TEI methodology provides a complete picture of the total economic impact of purchase decisions. Please see Appendix A for additional information on the TEI methodology.
Total Economic Impact Approach
Benefits
Benefits represent the value the solution delivers to the business. The TEI methodology places equal weight on the measure of benefits and costs, allowing for a full examination of the solution’s effect on the entire organization.
Costs
Costs comprise all expenses necessary to deliver the proposed value, or benefits, of the solution. The methodology captures implementation and ongoing costs associated with the solution.
Flexibility
Flexibility represents the strategic value that can be obtained for some future additional investment building on top of the initial investment already made. The ability to capture that benefit has a PV that can be estimated.
Risks
Risks measure the uncertainty of benefit and cost estimates given: 1) the likelihood that estimates will meet original projections and 2) the likelihood that estimates will be tracked over time. TEI risk factors are based on “triangular distribution.”
Financial Terminology
Present value (PV)
The present or current value of (discounted) cost and benefit estimates given at an interest rate (the discount rate). The PVs of costs and benefits feed into the total NPV of cash flows.
Net present value (NPV)
The present or current value of (discounted) future net cash flows given an interest rate (the discount rate). A positive project NPV normally indicates that the investment should be made unless other projects have higher NPVs.
Return on investment (ROI)
A project’s expected return in percentage terms. ROI is calculated by dividing net benefits (benefits less costs) by costs.
Discount rate
The interest rate used in cash flow analysis to take into account the time value of money. Organizations typically use discount rates between 8% and 16%.
Payback
The breakeven point for an investment. This is the point in time at which net benefits (benefits minus costs) equal initial investment or cost.
Appendix A
Total Economic Impact
Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances a company’s technology decision-making processes and assists solution providers in communicating their value proposition to clients. The TEI methodology helps companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of business and technology initiatives to both senior management and other key stakeholders.
Appendix B
Endnotes
1 Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester Research that enhances a company’s technology decision-making processes and assists solution providers in communicating their value proposition to clients. The TEI methodology helps companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of business and technology initiatives to both senior management and other key stakeholders.
Disclosures
Readers should be aware of the following:
This study is commissioned by LogicMonitor and delivered by Forrester Consulting. It is not meant to be used as a competitive analysis.
Forrester makes no assumptions as to the potential ROI that other organizations will receive. Forrester strongly advises that readers use their own estimates within the framework provided in the study to determine the appropriateness of an investment in Edwin AI.
LogicMonitor reviewed and provided feedback to Forrester, but Forrester maintains editorial control over the study and its findings and does not accept changes to the study that contradict Forrester’s findings or obscure the meaning of the study.
LogicMonitor provided the customer names for the interviews but did not participate in the interviews.
Consulting Team:
Zahra Azzaoui
Published
May 2026