Akamai mPulse vs ITRS Geneos comparison

Akamai and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Akamai is ranked #55, while ITRS is ranked #34 with an average rating of 5.0. Akamai holds a 0.6% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

ITRS Geneos and Akamai mPulse compete in the monitoring solutions category. Users are happier with the support and pricing of ITRS Geneos but find the features of Akamai mPulse superior and worth the price.

Features: ITRS Geneos excels in infrastructure monitoring with users appreciating its stability and efficiency. Akamai mPulse stands out for real-time user experience analytics, giving detailed insights into web performance. Users prefer the detailed analytics provided by Akamai mPulse, although ITRS Geneos remains favored for its core monitoring capabilities.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos users suggest improvements in report customization and integration with other tools. Akamai mPulse users recommend enhancements in mobile app monitoring and easier configuration. ITRS Geneos shows a need for broader integration while Akamai mPulse requires better flexibility in monitoring.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos users report a straightforward deployment process and commendable customer service. Akamai mPulse users note a slightly more complex deployment but appreciate responsive support. ITRS Geneos offers an easier deployment experience, whereas both products provide strong customer service.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos is perceived as cost-effective with a quick ROI. Akamai mPulse, though pricier, justifies its cost with comprehensive features. Users find ITRS Geneos provides a better balance of cost and return, while Akamai mPulse is seen as a valuable investment for in-depth performance analysis.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai mPulse

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

55th

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

34th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (64th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Akamai mPulse is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.0%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ITRS Geneos	1.0%
Akamai mPulse	0.6%
Other	98.4%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Arivu Arumugam

Staff Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within

There is little that's unique about mPulse but since the solution is part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections from within the product which is a great feature. the UI is quite good. It offers a basic set of features but nothing unique other than that as part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections.

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DeepakR

Site Reliability Engineer(Observability) at Sapiens

If one server fails, the agent will automatically be reinstalled

ITRS Geneos is a legacy system. It predicts or provides proactive measures once an issue is resolved. It doesn't offer any predictive capabilities or root cause analysis. They throw a lot of data if there's a 90% error. You need to check which process is consuming more CPU and determine the root cause for yourself. You need to troubleshoot it manually. This legacy system could introduce predictive analysis and root cause identification. They are reluctant to switch to newer solutions, which may require writing queries to fetch data. Manually logging into servers, checking CPU usage, identifying processes, and determining root causes is time-consuming. Once the root cause is identified, the issue can be resolved efficiently. The manual troubleshooting process is time-consuming. The content is not openly available in the market. If you search for it somewhere, it is not readily accessible. If you want to try it out, no trial version is available. Therefore, it will be challenging to learn. Loading ITRS is difficult, as you need to purchase it first. Secondly, only a few people are knowledgeable about ITRS in the market, making it challenging to find resources. Thirdly, the documentation must be well-documented, making finding content or training material hard. The UI also needs to be updated, which adds to the difficulty.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."

"It provides a great overview for management regarding user experience."

"We are a worldwide company and we need to have a solution with good performance which the solution is providing us with; it has helped our company."

"It provides real-time monitoring for performance and availability of specific portions of the website without a significant data overhead."

"It’s a very good product for performance tracking, I haven’t used many others, so I can’t comment on a competitive level."

"There is little that's unique about mPulse but since the solution is part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections from within the product which is a great feature."

"There's a good relationship between the price and the licences."

"The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."

"The built-in plug-ins allow administrators to easily configure monitoring components for market data systems such as Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and SRLabs Wombat (formerly NYSE)."

"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."

"This is the most amazing monitoring tool I've ever worked with, because it allows you to monitor a lot of things and also to address the issue and assign it to someone so everyone will know it's being investigated."

"As a company looking to onboard, its capacity to monitor just about anything from Unix log files and processes to database memory, and even run queries and provide results, means it can be used as a one stop shop for all your monitoring needs if you understand how to utilise it to its fullest extent."

"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."

"The Geneos monitoring solution is a mature industry standard monitoring solution, and is present in over 90% of the invest banks in the city."

"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"

"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."

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Cons

"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."

"The solution didn't help us much and that's the reason we never used mPulse on a full scale and why we chose to go with Dynatrace."

"Scalability to larger volume of data seems to be hit or miss."

"It needs a more intuitive GUI and more customization options."

"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."

"They work very well, only thing is they need more time to improve and fix all the issues."

"We need more hassle free plug-ins that offer Load and Start with minimal manual efforts."

"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."

"I had issues scaling it and ended up having to distribute the load over seven gateways."

"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."

"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."

"They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome."

"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer. Currently we have to export metrics data in real-time into some other visualization tools in order to get better picture and have a bit more functional dashboard."

"Sometimes there were issues with the database. If the database logging was high then the gateway would be slow."

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"You will get the best price if you get a single global deal."

"When I first came in, their pricing was very high. ITRS had a high expectation of what their price should be based on perceived value. I think they have been realizing, more recently, that there are other competitors, so their pricing is a lot better. Licensing for on-premise is okay, however I feel there is quite some work to be done for cloud and containers. We're still working with them to try and work out what that pricing should look like."

"Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."

"The organization is not just purchasing a license for the product, but also managing services and professional services from ITRS. Another factor is if the implementation is going to be in production, non-production, or both."

"Its price is reasonable. It isn't too expensive, and it isn't too cheap, but it also depends on a company's volume and negotiation."

"Based on feedback from colleagues and friends working in the financial sector, Geneos is relatively costly. Many companies have been switching from Geneos to Dynatrace, Sysdig, or other monitoring tools in the past two years because of the price."

"Pricing is the touchy subject, even here. Upper management always wants us to find a cheaper solution. But we have so much integrated with ITRS... It's expensive, but it does its job very well. And you set it and go."

"The pricing is fairly market-related. They have been very lenient because we have been working with them for so long. An example is that we're currently migrating some of our services to AWS, and they've given us a grace period for some of the things to help with the migration and not to grow additional costs while we are migrating, but it's still on par with the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

67%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	39

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The pricing is high. Licensing fees might be around 500$ per server monthly.

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Also Known As

SOASTA mPulse

Geneos

Overview

Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that gives performance engineers, administrators, and developers the ability to effortlessly visualize website functionality issues and identify ways to improve processes that conventional testing protocols do not find. mPulse gives users usable scenarios to better understand how processes such as user interactions, visual progress, and third-party resources may be disrupting the overall user experience and application delivery.

mPulse enables users to take a deep dive into the specific performance issues and complete comprehensive error analyses, to thoroughly understand the effect on critical user interactions such as conversions, page views, and more.

mPulse gathers and delivers data on an organization's website’s performance and metrics on user web browsing experiences. The mPulse feature “Boomerang” is a JavaScript Library that monitors the website page load time. Boomerang has a unique plugin architecture and works with all websites. The Boomerang feature is embedded on each page of an organization's website.

mPulse works seamlessly with Akamai solution Ion, so the RUM data can be instantly gathered once the Luna Control Center has been activated. Ion instantly attaches Boomerang to the organization’s web properties; there is no need to change the website code.

Akamai mPulse Benefits

Third-party monitoring: mPulse enables users to effortlessly monitor and visualize the effect that third-party vendors, resources, and scripts may have on the organization’s web properties.
Real-time intuitions: RUM data is continually being gathered, so users are able to instantly experience changes in user performance during every critical event. Users are able to respond immediately and make corrections or amendments as needed. Additionally, mPulse integrates effectively with other third-party notification solutions, such as Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook API support.
Framework integrations: mPulse integrates with many of today’s popular single-page application (SPA) frameworks, such as React.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js, and even some custom frameworks. mPulse has the ability to also be seamlessly integrated in Non-SPA websites.
Intuitive feedback: mPulse gathers data and creates workable solutions so users have a better understanding of how objects, images, or even entire pages are affecting user behavior. Users can gather numerous metrics (custom or advanced) to achieve a better, more complete understanding of ways to improve the user experience with the application or website.
Custom metrics and timers: With mPulse, users can effortlessly create custom timers to discover important performance sessions unique to the application. The mPulse dashboard allows users to set up trackers for numerous metrics, such as:
- First image load time
- Sidebar load time
- Page load times
- Third-party resource content load time
mPulse Beacon API: This valuable benefit allows users to send custom metrics from mobile and web applications to mPulse. This gives mPulse greater flexibility and usability to frameworks and platforms that can make HTTP calls. Representational State Transfer (REST) interface is included and is able to be used by any web application using any language running on the platform. There is also a Beacon API library for JavaScript. This option is available from the dashboard by creating a new application and an API key.

Akamai

ITRS Geneos is a real-time monitoring tool designed for managing increasingly complex, hybrid and interconnected IT estates.

Built with financial services and trading organisations in mind, it collects a wide range of data relating to server performance, infrastructure, trading, connectivity and applications, and analyses it to provide relevant information and alerts in real time.

Geneos can give full stack visibility across highly dynamic environments and presents all the information through a single pane of glass and its configurable and customisable dashboards provide end-to-end visibility to both technical and business users.

For more information, please visit https://www.itrsgroup.com/products/geneos

ITRS

Sample Customers

Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei

ITRS Geneos is used by over 170 financial institutions, including JPMorgan, HSBC, RBS, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Clients range from investment banks to exchanges and brokers.

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