We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and Nagios Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."
"Geneos automatically sends email notifications when any batch job fails, the database is down or the website is down. It is automatically monitoring everything and reduces manual effort."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"Ability to monitor logs for potential issues to prevent app outages before problems get a chance to arise. That's invaluable for our teams in a fast-paced trading environment."
"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."
"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."
"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."
"Alert calls occur anytime a service goes down or a matrix is difficult and that helps us to quickly restore service and transfer work."
"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."
"We use the product to monitor server applications."
"Provides timely notifications."
"Nagios Core is very configurable. Whatever you want, you can do it."
"We mostly use Nagios Core to integrate with Python and Bash Script."
"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."
"It has made the life of the network operations staff more proactive in managing the resources of the infrastructure. It prevents disasters long before they can take place."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like better access to the data that is being collected."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"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 dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."
"They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome."
"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."
"I would like to see more training videos."
"The dashboard and monitoring features could be improved."
"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."
"It's not that easy to install the product itself. Also, the UI is a bit hard for regular users to navigate through."
"Nagios Core is limited in terms of distributed setups, and there is no central view for remote data centers."
"The tool needs to improve the integrations."
"The initial setup process could be easier."
"Nagios Core does not have a graphic display."
ITRS Geneos is ranked 16th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Nagios Core is ranked 7th in Network Monitoring Software with 46 reviews. ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2, while Nagios Core is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios Core writes "An Open Source Fully Featured Data Centre Monitoring Tool". ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and Datadog, whereas Nagios Core is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Centreon, Icinga and OP5 Monitor. See our ITRS Geneos vs. Nagios Core report.
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