We performed a comparison between Grafana and ITRS Geneos based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana boasts customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexible integration with other tools, and the ability to cater to multiple use cases. Meanwhile, ITRS Geneos, while highly customizable and flexible, requires a lot of manual work for creating dashboards and lacks a mobile app. It also has a complex initial setup process and may be too expensive for non-banking and non-finance industries. Overall, Grafana is more user-friendly and cost-effective, with a wider range of features and better community support, making it the preferred solution.
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"There are multiple kinds of models there to create dashboards, which is quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the UI dashboard because we need to create a dashboard on Grafana to monitor our data."
"This solution provides valuable insights into the health of our infrastructure in real time."
"Grafana is a very scalable product. It's a really good product."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The solution has good features."
"Custom script toolkits"
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"ITRS can define rules to alert when certain parameters that you monitor breach a threshold. Rules can be configured to fire recovery actions automatically to clear the alert"
"It's also easy to implement. The implementation of Geneos is very easy and interesting. It's not complicated. It's very quick to implement. The installation is very easy. There are many topics about ITRS Geneos that explain more about the features of the function of Geneos."
"The filtering in the Active Console is exceptional. Depending on the user base, some people don't want to see server-level errors, so we have filters set up in the Managed Entities view, which allow us to filter out things that certain groups don't want to see, while allowing them to see other things. It's a great real-time monitoring solution. And you can draw graphs immediately, right from the Active Console, whether they're current graphs or historical graphs."
"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."
"Geneos automatically sends email notifications when any batch job fails, the database is down or the website is down. It is automatically monitoring everything and reduces manual effort."
"One area for improvement in Grafana is that depending on your version, you have to pay for the features, making the license expensive. It would be great if the licensing model could be more flexible. In the next release of Grafana, I want cluster creation to be available, which would help in Grafana deployment and scaling. Currently, the scaling process for the solution is a bit complicated."
"The solution should include online support."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"The documentation or training provided by Grafana is limited compared to its competitors, like Splunk."
"More dashboard is required, out-of-the-box, for OpenNMS."
"It would be helpful if they simplified the data source."
"It would be helpful if Grafana provided more information and training on how to use Prometheus."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Their cloud monitoring solution needs to be improved. I have already given them the feedback that it's not capable of meeting the latest technology needs."
"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"I would really like to see something from the Geneos side to set up automated reporting from ITRS. We have to send reporting to management every day. To do that we have to check the dashboard and then we have to report whether everything is fine or not. In the future, I want something, some reporting kind of feature in ITRS, where it can collect all the data and mention what is green, what is amber, what is red in a report."
"We all look at the same things - CPU, disk space, paging stats, service status with RAG status on each. That could be provided straight out, saving significant time."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"For the last year or two, I've been asking the vendor about the mobile app. This is something that probably everyone asks when they see the tool and they see how powerful it is. If there is any mobile app for this or if there is any way this tool can be more easily accessible other than having a big client installed, it would be great. I know you can build dashboards, et cetera, but there is no quick and easy way. I should be able to download an app, log in, and see my status. That will put this product above everything else out there. I believe it's on their roadmap."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Coralogix, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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