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Updated on Jun 28, 2023

We performed a comparison between Elastic Observability and ITRS Geneos for Valuable based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: The initial setup for Elastic Observability and ITRS Geneos differs in complexity, with Elastic Observability being more challenging due to its distributed nature. ITRS Geneos has a straightforward installation process and top-notch documentation, but it can still be complex and may require onsite support. The number of personnel needed for deployment is dependent on the organization's sizs.
  • Features: Elastic Observability has machine learning and custom development options, and is more economical and flexible. ITRS Geneos, on the other hand, has highly customizable monitoring and real-time capabilities, and is powerful and tailored to specific use cases. Both tools are stable and easy to use.
  • Pricing: Elastic Observability offers flexibility in pricing depending on usage and license, while ITRS Geneos' pricing is based on market demand and future utilization. Elastic Observability includes open source options and embedded components, while ITRS Geneos has additional add-ons that come with extra costs.
  • Service and Support: Elastic Observability is praised for their great tech support and comprehensive online community. ITRS Geneos also has excellent technical support and an effective ticketing system. However, some customers have experienced slow response times and suggest improvements.
  • ROI: Elastic Observability is a budget-friendly option that enhances visibility, streamlines data management, and decreases incidents. On the other hand, ITRS Geneos is a proactive tool that identifies potential problems, minimizes downtime, manages alerts, and aids in application maintenance.

Comparison Results: Elastic Observability offers machine learning, custom development, and easy data management. ITRS Geneos is highly customizable but needs improvement in deployment and cloud monitoring. Its setup can also be complex and require onsite support. Both products have reasonable pricing, but Elastic Observability is cost-effective and helps organizations achieve their objectives at a lower price, making it the preferred option.

To learn more, read our detailed Elastic Observability vs. ITRS Geneos Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution allows us to dig deep into data.""We can view and connect different sources to the dashboard using it.""The product has connectors to many services.""For full stack observability, Elastic is the best tool compared with any other tool .""The price is very less expensive compared to the other solutions.""Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning over a month from multiple data sources can be completed within seconds.""The architecture and system's stability are simple.""Machine learning is the most valuable feature of this solution."

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"The remarkable feature of Geneos is the dashboard. Geneos' flexible dashboard sets it apart from other monitoring tools. Other solutions have limitations in their dashboard design and can't be customized as much. The Geneos dashboard allows unlimited creativity.""The ability to logically normalize data gathered from multiple types of sources via pre-built plugins is extremely powerful. This functionality, coupled with the ability to import custom data via the Toolkit plugin allows Geneos to be leveraged to monitor every system in the enterprise.""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.""This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules.""The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer.""Tons of default modules which are available out of the box""The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring.""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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"There's a steep learning curve if you've never used this solution before.""More web features could be added to the product.""Improving code insight related to infrastructure and network, particularly focusing on aspects such as firewalls, switches, routers, and testing would be beneficial.""The price is the only issue in the solution. It can be made better and cheaper.""Elastic Observability is difficult to use. There are only three options for customization but this can be difficult for our use case. We do not have other options to choose the metrics shown, such as CPU or memory usage.""Elastic Observability is reactive rather than proactive. It should act as an ITSM tool and be able to create tickets and alerts on Jira.""Elastic Observability’s price could be improved.""There could be more low-code features included in the product."

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"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful.""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.""They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome.""The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard.""Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated.""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.""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.""ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "So far, there are just the standard licensing fees. Several of the components are embedded in the license or are even open source. They're even free depending on what you use, which makes it even more appealing to someone that is discussing pricing of the solution."
  • "There are two types: cloud and SaaS. They charge based on data ingestion, ingest rate, hard retention, and warm retention. I believe it costs around $25,000 annually to ingest 30GB of data daily. That is the SaaS version. There is also a self-managed license where the customer manages their own infrastructure on-prem. In such cases, there are three license tiers that respectively cost $5,000 annually per node, $7,000 per node, and $12,500 per node."
  • "Pricing is one of those situations where the more you use it, the more you pay."
  • "The price of Elastic Observability is expensive."
  • "Users have to pay for some features, like the alerts on different channels, because they are unavailable in different source versions."
  • "One needs to pay for the licenses, and it is an annual subscription model right now."
  • "Since we are a huge company, Elastic Observability is an affordable solution for us."
  • "We will buy a premium license after POC."
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  • "You will get the best price if you get a single global deal."
  • "The product is priced quite high. There are pricing options for customers based on the size of the environment and plug-ins used by the monitoring system."
  • "Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."
  • "The licensing cost may seem expensive upfront. However, the service is outstanding, the tool does things that no other tools can do, and the customizability more than makes up for the cost of licensing."
  • "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."
  • "It is expensive. They have to look at the model around when we move to cloud and how that's going to work. The licensing cost does pay off because of the improvements in support to our business."
  • "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."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Elastic Observability significantly improves incident response time by providing quick access to logs and data across various sources. For instance, searching for specific keywords in logs spanning… more »
    Top Answer:I rate the pricing a five out of ten. The product is not that cheap.
    Top Answer:The tool's scalability involves a more complex implementation process. It requires careful calculations to determine the number of nodes needed, the specifications of each node, and the configuration… more »
    Top Answer:I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option.
    Top Answer:I can say it's not that cheap because the licensing is a little bit costly. So, definitely, we had to pay a certain amount to use it.
    Top Answer:Speaking about room for improvement, ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud. I definitely know that they have some monitoring extensions or plug-ins for the… more »
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    Overview
    To effectively monitor and gain insights across your distributed systems, you need to have all your observability data in one stack. Break down silos by bringing together application, infrastructure, and user data into a unified solution for end-to-end observability and alerting.
    Rely on the most widely deployed observability platform available, built on the proven Elastic Stack (also known as the ELK Stack) to converge silos, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights.

    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
    PSCU, Entel, VITAS, Mimecast, Barrett Steel, Butterfield Bank
    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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    Buyer's Guide
    Elastic Observability vs. ITRS Geneos
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic Observability vs. ITRS Geneos and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Elastic Observability is ranked 7th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 22 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. Elastic Observability is rated 7.8, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Observability writes "The user interface framework lets us do custom development when needed. ". 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". Elastic Observability is most compared with Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, Sentry and Splunk APM, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and AppDynamics Server Monitoring. See our Elastic Observability vs. ITRS Geneos report.

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