We performed a comparison between Grafana and ITRS Geneos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Management (APM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best thing about Grafana is the visualization. The colors and the ease of use make it very user-friendly."
"Provides good dashboard visualization."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"Compatibility with Prometheus databases and the Spring Boot application make it the first choice when moving toward an SRE model."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"The dashboards are very easy to work with."
"Grafana's best features are live monitoring and alerts."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."
"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."
"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 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."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"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."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"There are some areas of network drives that are not showing as expected based on server usage."
"Trigger limits are difficult to see in a graph."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"Lacks event management which affects our DevOps people."
"I would like the ability to download my results into any format in order to share the information with my clients."
"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."
"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
Grafana is ranked 9th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 28 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 10th in Application Performance Management (APM) with 9 reviews. Grafana is rated 7.8, 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 "A stable solution, with real-time monitoring". Grafana is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Honeycomb.io, Sentry and VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, Splunk Enterprise Security, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Datadog. See our Grafana vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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