AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs ITRS Geneos comparison

AppDynamics and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. AppDynamics is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.3, while ITRS is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.8. AppDynamics holds a 0.2% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of AppDynamics 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 AppDynamics Database Monitoring compete in the database performance monitoring category. AppDynamics seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and advanced analytics features.

Features: ITRS Geneos offers comprehensive monitoring, customizability, and in-depth performance metrics tracking. AppDynamics provides intuitive setup, advanced analytics, and deep insights for effective performance optimization.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos needs simpler configuration, improved data visualization, and better integration. AppDynamics should extend support for additional databases, improve root cause analysis, and enhance customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos allows flexible deployment but can be time-consuming to configure optimally, with responsive yet sometimes less detailed customer service. AppDynamics offers smoother deployment, faster initial setup, and more extensive customer support with proactive guidance.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos has high setup costs but offers good ROI through detailed monitoring when effectively utilized. AppDynamics may have higher initial costs but achieves quick time-to-value with robust analytics, leading to strong ROI feedback.

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Categories and Ranking

AppDynamics Database Monito...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (28th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AppDynamics Database Monitoring is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.4%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Nuno Rosa

Principal Consultant at Infosys

Feb 8, 2024

Has an easy initial setup process and has valuable database performance monitoring features

In one of the scenarios, a retail company encountered transaction failure issues. The problem was not with the card or payment system but the database operations. By utilizing AppDynamics, the team traced end-to-end transactions and identified a database latency problem. Monitoring the entire end-to-end system allows us to pinpoint performance issues in the database. Tracking the user journey helped us identify the issues between the middleware and the database. The topology view feature helps in effective monitoring. However, this feature was developed six years ago and still needs to be updated. The application needs broader improvements and reshaping for this particular area. Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases. During development, it integrates seamlessly with the SDLC. It detects and resolves performance issues, ensuring database availability and minimizing downtime. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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reviewer2026149

SRE Observability Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 17, 2022

Has user-friendly monitoring, but the dashboards needs improvement

There is one drawback to using lightweight data collection: we lack the feature of observability based on time series, such as historical model data. This makes it difficult to view data in ITRS. ITRS needs to improve this feature. The dashboarding needs a lot of improvement. It takes a lot of manual work to get it up and running. The dashboarding also doesn't render automatically according to the screen size. For example, if we create a dashboard on a 14-inch screen and want to put it on a 55-inch TV, the dashboard doesn't automatically render. There is some misalignment. Another major feature ITRS lacks is that they don't provide a mobile app to monitor the dashboard. We have to always log in to the laptop to check the necessary details. If these two features improve, I would give the solution a ten out of ten for its ability to prevent failure. Currently, the ITRS tool is available as a binary. We do not have this particular tool as a containerized module, such as a Docker image. This makes it difficult to set up on the Kubernetes platform. I would like to have a feature for tracing on the application side added to the solution. The end user requests data from the application and we need to identify where any delays occur in order to improve application performance. Visualizing the tracing information is helpful in identifying the source of any delays.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The good thing with AppDynamics Databases is that it will give you a pretty good overview of the data, all the database-like tables, long-running queries, jobs running on the databases, and the queries that are taking more time. So, it's at a deeper level with all the database functionalities, and you will get that information. So, it's a pretty good tool in that sense."

"To be honest, it's a fantastic product."

"The ability to identify the top running queries has been extremely valuable for us."

"In my experience, it's easy to use. There's nothing complex to learn or fear. You can quickly adapt to it without the need for extensive training."

"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that we can see all query times. If a particular query is taking too much time, we can alert it."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's dashboarding is its best feature."

"I have found some of the valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring to be once the installation is complete, you are able to quickly start receiving metrics, which is great. The user interface is also very user-friendly."

"The product is stable and the technical support is good."

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"The Netprobe is so lightweight compared to the agents that most monitoring tools use. It's really superior to the competition. The agent that is used by almost every competitive tool takes a lot more system resources. It's slower and it requires a greater effort and more compromises in terms of security to install on the monitored servers. With Geneos, because it lives outside the code, it is far easier and far less taxing on the monitored systems."

"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."

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

"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."

"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."

"One thing we're utilizing in Geneos is the Gateway-SQL. That's really helpful for us. Using Gateway-SQL, we are able to merge two different views into one. Suppose we have to check something in the log and that we have to check something in the database and do a comparison before publishing a result. We can achieve that using Gateway-SQL."

"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."

"It enables us to monitor application processes, to do log-monitoring on a 24/7 basis, to do server-level monitoring - all the hardware parameters - as well as monitor connectivity across applications to the interfaces."

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Cons

"Stability-wise, we experienced some performance issues when upgrading from 4.4 to 4.5."

"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."

"The day-to-day activities should be less complicated so that anyone can manage it."

"The solution needs to support IBM products."

"The product requires high maintenance."

"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."

"The user access management could be a bit better."

"The major concern lies with reports, specifically their configurability. It's like, if I want to combine multiple reports and generate them all at once, that's not possible. Even though there's a setup for generating 25 reports, I wanted to group them all and generate them in one go, which isn't currently feasible. I have to manually run each report and set the time for it."

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"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."

"I would also like to see suggested guidelines to accomplish a monitoring task. The issue is that ITRS is so flexible that there is more than one way to complete a task, each with benefits and disadvantages."

"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."

"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."

"The deployment method for upgrading is a bit tricky. It takes a little bit of manual effort. If that could be a bit more automated, it would help us a lot."

"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."

"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."

"One thing that could be improved in terms of rapid scaling would be more ability to clone aspects of an implementation. It seems like there are opportunities in this area, where we have repetitive tasks to do when it comes to implementing things on new servers or on new gateways. It would be great if there was an easy way to clone something that had already been done."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."

"We buy the platform's yearly subscription."

"If one is expensive and ten is low price, I rate the product price as seven out of ten."

"AppDynamics offers a yearly basis license."

"We have a license-based solution. That means you need a license for each server you monitor."

"We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."

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"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."

"The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."

"I can say it's not that cheap because the licensing is a little bit costly"

"ITRS Geneos is not a cheap tool. It's a moderate price for the banking industry. The reason we are not able to add the ITRS monitoring tool for the non-banking industries, and non-finance industries, is that the pricing is too high."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

77%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The tool is expensive. If one is expensive and ten is low price, I rate the product price as seven out of ten.

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics Database Monitoring?

The tool provides more insights, but maybe if in the recommendation section, we can use some AI tool for the optimization of the database, then it would be helpful. With AI, it would be good if the...

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What do you like most about ITRS Geneos?

I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ITRS Geneos?

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

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What needs improvement with ITRS Geneos?

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 i...

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Overview

More than half of application performance bottlenecks originate in the database, but most application teams have little or no visibility into database performance. With AppDynamics' database performance management product, you get 100% visibility into application performance, from the browser to the database.

Key Benefits

Visualize end-to-end application performance, from the browser to the database
Get alerts when database thresholds are violated
Monitor key performance metrics like top users, programs, SQL, objects and more.
See execution plans for slow SQL to isolate performance bottlenecks

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

Sample Customers

Sony, DirecTV, UBS, The Container Store, The Neta Porter Group, Nasdaq, Cisco, eHarmony, Hallmark, Overstock, Expedia

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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