We performed a comparison between Azure Monitor 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: Azure Monitor is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution that integrates well with other Microsoft technologies. It is highly recommended due to its lower cost, ease of configuration and maintenance, and integration capabilities. On the other hand, while ITRS Geneos is highly customizable and flexible, it lacks thread-level monitoring and requires a complex initial setup that may require direct onsite support for several weeks. It may also be too expensive for non-banking and non-finance industries. Azure Monitor is a more affordable and user-friendly option for developers who want to integrate with Visual Studio and monitor cloud resources across multiple subscriptions, making it the preferred solution.
"Azure Monitor's best features are its graphs and charts, the different visibility options, and reporting."
"Azure Monitor is useful because of the useful application insights and telemetry, such as metrics and logs."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Log analytics and log queries are the most valuable features of Azure Monitor."
"It is a move-in powerful feature compared to other market-leading tools."
"It is a robust, stable product."
"Technical support is good and helpful...The initial setup is easy."
"In the last company where I worked about a year ago, it looked very simple."
"One of the best aspects of Geneos is that it has a broad scope and can cover a lot of use cases. You can write your own scripts to monitor really specific things. And the rules that you can put in place can be quite complex for the alerts."
"The flexibility of the product is most valuable. It is highly customizable. If you put your mind to it and think of something you could do, there's a good possibility you can get it integrated within the console, if it's not readily available. The simplicity or ease of customization has been valuable."
"It's a very powerful application monitoring tool across the industry. Many free, open-source tools are available. There are also paid tools, but ITRS Geneos is a real-time application monitoring tool where the user can monitor, self-configure, and manage alerts through their console."
"The ability to completely tailor and customize what it's monitoring is one of its strongest points. A lot of other monitoring tools are good at certain things, but one of my colleagues described it as the “Swiss Army Knife” of monitoring tools. It can do anything you want."
"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."
"The solution needs better monitoring. It requires better log controls."
"Azure Monitor could improve the visualization aspect and integrate better with other third-party services."
"Setting up this solution is complex. It's also missing the functionality of assigning alerts."
"Azure Monitor could improve network performance monitoring and make it more advanced."
"In terms of pricing, Azure Monitor's billing based on data size can sometimes lead to increased costs, especially when developers need to purge data frequently. While there are mechanisms in place to track and manage this, there is room for improvement in terms of optimizing data pausing and related processes. Enhancements in this area could help mitigate potential billing concerns and provide a more seamless experience for users."
"The length of latency is terrible and needs to be improved."
"Azure Monitor's integration with applications could be improved."
"They should include advanced logging on the database level in the Azure pool."
"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."
"ITRS have started to make some major changes that we haven't taken on board yet, in the creation of dashboards and more visibility of the metrics that we collect. At the moment, that's something that's lacking, but I know they have addressed it. Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos."
"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."
"For the solution to stay relevant in the cloud-based monitoring environment Geneos needs more plug-ins with more features. Instead of offering clients workarounds, the solution should have a cloud-based out-of-the-box version."
"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."
"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."
"I would like ITRS Geneos to develop an app, where instead of going to specific login terminals or logging into laptops or desktops to check alerts, we can have visibility in the app itself."
"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."
Azure Monitor is ranked 4th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. Azure Monitor is rated 7.8, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Monitor writes "Helps us test the performance and efficiency of cloud applications; good log analysis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "A stable solution, with real-time monitoring". Azure Monitor is most compared with Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security, Prometheus and New Relic, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana and Prometheus. See our Azure Monitor vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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