ITRS Geneos vs Instana Dynamic APM comparison

Instana and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Instana is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8, while ITRS is ranked #34 with an average rating of 5.0. Instana holds a 1.0% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Instana 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 Instana Dynamic APM compete in the application performance management category. Instana seems to have the upper hand with its automation and real-time insights.

Features: ITRS Geneos users highlight extensive monitoring capabilities, customizable alerts, and detailed monitoring. Instana Dynamic APM users recognize automatic discovery, root-cause analysis, and real-time updates.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos needs better integration with modern technologies, enhanced scalability, and faster implementation of new features. Instana Dynamic APM should improve support for legacy systems, provide more detailed documentation, and simplify its user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos has straightforward deployment but a steep learning curve, with responsive customer service. Instana Dynamic APM is known for easy and fast deployment with pre-configured agents, though its customer service needs improvement.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos has high setup costs but achieves significant ROI through comprehensive monitoring. Instana Dynamic APM's pricing is justified by advanced features and automatic functionalities, leading to a justifiable ROI despite higher costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Instana Dynamic APM

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

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 (69th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (49th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Instana Dynamic APM is 1.0%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Muhammad Jawwad Hassan

IT Consultant at Arcana Info

A really good GUI that is easy for non-technical users to understand

Our company uses the solution for one of our bank clients. We use App Connect middleware to monitor services and applications such as Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and MS SQL Server. We also monitor the bottleneck for all servers. We currently have 20 users at one of our branches. We plan to expand…

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Sanket

Chief Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

With the help of the solution, we can predict and prevent failures

Currently, the most valuable thing for an individual is a mobile device. Since that is where people are currently tracking everything, we have multiple applications or apps that are for various products. 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. Using the ITRS Geneos app, we could see the error message during our travels or wherever we are. I would like to see the capacity of messages for forecasting increased. Since the NSE is the number one derivative stock exchange in the work for three consecutive years, the number of messages is important. We use the capacity planner in ITRS to forecast our data needs for the next two months. The planner is important because the volume of data we produce is becoming more and more volatile compared to when we first started using ITRS Geneos in 2014.

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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 primary selling point of this product is its unparalleled transparency into the infrastructure."

"If a key monitored value has crossed a threshold, it sends out an alert. And the solution is able to intelligently find out if something is beyond the range that it normally resides in."

"Its GUI is really good and it easy to understand for non-technical users."

"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."

"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."

"The detailing of our application behavior and user experience is most valuable. In case there is an issue, we typically use Instana to figure it out. We can drill down to the application and figure out what's going on and where the issue is."

"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."

"The most valuable feature of Instana Dynamic APM is auto-instrumentation."

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"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."

"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."

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

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

"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."

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

"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."

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Cons

"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."

"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."

"The integration could be improved with more plugins or open API."

"New Relic has a better UI in terms of how it presents the data."

"Many managers, as well as our customers, used to ask for reports, such as "top X number of queries that are slow," or "top pages that have the highest number of issues." This is something that can be improved by Instana. Currently, they don't have that kind of reporting available out-of-the-box."

"While it is already quite good, there is room for improvement in terms of providing better functionality"

"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."

"Maybe log monitoring could be better."

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

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

"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."

"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."

"Sometimes, if there is a lot of data coming onto the servers, we have observed a little bit of slowness on the gateway servers which are doing the ITRS dashboard monitoring."

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

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's reasonably priced and manageable, especially for individuals who grasp the significance of application monitoring."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."

"Its pricing isn't a big pain point. Its pricing seems to be better than some of the other competing products in the market, but they also have some of the features and functionalities that are better than Instana."

"The pricing is $1,200 per year which is a bit high compared to other vendors."

"Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to other vendors."

"The solution is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"Pricing is quite competitive. Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic were all several times more expensive than Instana, both the on-prem and the SaaS versions. Price-wise they are a lot more competitive than anyone else out there."

"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."

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

"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 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."

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

"The market tools are on par with this solution, but if the solution included more features, then it would be well within the range for the cost."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

73%

Computer Software Company

University

Construction Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Instana Dynamic APM?

The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Instana Dynamic APM?

I rate the pricing a seven out of ten. There are no additional costs associated with the product.

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What needs improvement with Instana Dynamic APM?

Sometimes, the issue arises from user changes, such as adjusting firewall settings without proper consideration, leading to compatibility issues within the network monitoring.

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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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What is your primary use case for ITRS Geneos?

ITRS offers multiple products, including upgrades for synthetic monitoring and a SaaS platform. Geneos is used for infrastructure monitoring, covering KPIs such as CPU, memory, processes, network l...

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Overview

Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation, and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. Learn more at https://instana.com.

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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

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Sample Customers

Daxko Lifts Fitness Studios Through COVID Regulations with Quick Engineering PivotsAltissia Meets SLAs to Support Student DeadlinesImmocloud Unlocks Observability to Modernize Real EstateEnento Group Boosts Service Reliability with Real-Time Visibility into Application Performance Instana’s Observability for Amazon EKS Helps Yara Deliver Digital Farming Solutions

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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