ITRS Geneos vs NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG comparison

ITRS and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ITRS is ranked #40 with an average rating of 9.0, while NETSCOUT is ranked #73. ITRS holds a 0.6% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

ITRS Geneos

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ITRS Geneos and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG are competing products in performance monitoring and network management. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG seems to have the upper hand with advanced network monitoring capabilities and more comprehensive visibility, while ITRS Geneos is favored for integration and ease of use.

Features: ITRS Geneos focuses on real-time performance monitoring, event management, and predictive analytics, ensuring businesses maintain optimal operations. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG offers extensive network visibility, traffic analysis, and proactive network issue management, focusing on network traffic.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos could enhance network monitoring granularity, refine its traffic analysis tools, and expand its functionality for broader network management. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG might improve integration simplicity, offer more intuitive user interfaces, and provide streamlined configuration processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos provides straightforward deployment with strong integration support, making implementation quick and seamless. Customer support is robust and efficient. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, though complex, covers various network topologies with its deployment but may present challenges in ease of setup. Customer service is reliable, offering comprehensive assistance.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos offers an appealing pricing structure, focusing on rapid ROI through integration efficiency and lower setup costs. NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, despite higher initial costs, promises substantial long-term ROI with its superior network management capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

40th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (31st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (28th)

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

73rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ITRS Geneos	0.6%
NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG	0.5%
Other	98.9%

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Ravi ShankarSundarasan

Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect at Blue Yonder

Real-time monitoring has improved incident response and supports proactive anomaly detection

The advantages and strong points of ITRS Geneos for me personally are seamless integration with existing systems as well as upcoming modern systems. The user interface is really good. From a management point of view, these are the key aspects with respect to the user interface and seamless integration. We get very good community support for this product. ITRS Geneos has impacted my organization positively, and I would rate it 4.5 out of 5.

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Michael Gideon Genita

Associate System Engineer at SMS Global Technologies, Inc.

Easy to set up with good documentation and helpful support

I'm using it for a customer The packet flow switch is the most valuable aspect of the solution. It's an easy product to set up. We can scale the solution if we need to. It's stable. The documentation is well-written and quite useful. It's compatible with other products. Under the pocket flow…

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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 tool is highly customizable and can be tailored to your requirements."

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

"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."

"ITRS is the best monitoring tool I have used so far."

"It's a very effective and productive tool, and avoids any major incidents."

"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."

"It is better than any monitoring product I've ever used in terms of providing real-time metric data."

"The solution is used across the entire investment banking division, covering environments such as electronic trading, algo-trading, fixed income, FX, etc. It monitors that environment and enables a bank to significantly reduce down time. Although hard to measure, since implementation, we have probably seen some increased stability because of it and we have definitely seen teams a lot more aware of their environment. Consequently, we can be more proactive in challenging and improving previously undetected weaknesses."

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"The technical support is really good. They will go above and beyond, if you are running into a problem. You can go to a sales engineer, who will engage technical support to help you out."

"If you are looking for a good application monitoring and packet analysis tool, you can strategically use NETSCOUT to get it done."

"It has cut our troubleshooting down by days. Once we have a product in place, we show people examples of how it can streamline their troubleshooting process."

"This solution has saved us hours (three to four) per problem when troubleshooting."

"It helps us get to root cause quickly. With utilization and consumption of bandwidth, we can usually see what application is taking as much as they should (or shouldn't), then account for it accordingly."

"I love the single pane of glass view. It makes it easier to not have to navigate everywhere. It allows more simplistic visibility, without having to go from tool to tool to tool, or from window to window to window."

"We use it for monitoring whenever we update a new circuit or site."

"It is very rock solid, and we hardly have any hardware issues."

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Cons

"I believe the product has to improve on reporting."

"I would rate technical support 7/10. It's self-explaining and the support is limited."

"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."

"Sometimes there were issues with the database. If the database logging was high then the gateway would be slow."

"They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome."

"As far as I know, ITRS does not have integration with any version control system."

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

"Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos."

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"The monitoring and reporting tool needs improvement. Users want more information, such as the level of detail when doing a packet analysis. They want more detail to be able to isolate down to a specific point."

"The stability depends on who is using the tool, because you only can get as much out of the tool as you put into it. There are a lot of patches for this particular environment, so you have to keep on them. If you lose track of them, then the product is not useful anymore."

"It can be scalable. It just costs too much."

"Only problems that we have had are fiber issues going into the TAPs or vSTREAMs, which are usually local site issues."

"I would like to see an improved level of stitching between IPs."

"Sometimes, we can't access it."

"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM."

"The technology goes end-of-life on us every year, which is why I am looking forward to vSTREAM. I don't like when devices go end-of-life on us so quickly. If we can get more of an advanced notice of when an end-of-life is brought up, because our certification process within the organization takes a while."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"You will get the best price if you get a single global deal."

"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."

"The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."

"The pricing is fairly market-related. They have been very lenient because we have been working with them for so long. An example is that we're currently migrating some of our services to AWS, and they've given us a grace period for some of the things to help with the migration and not to grow additional costs while we are migrating, but it's still on par with the market."

"The organization is not just purchasing a license for the product, but also managing services and professional services from ITRS. Another factor is if the implementation is going to be in production, non-production, or both."

"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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"The price is a little high."

"It can be scalable. It just costs too much. With a company as big as ours, it gets too expensive to accommodate every single site."

"This product could be cheaper."

"I would like it to be more scalable with less spend."

"To capture more with the solution that we bought, you have to buy another InfiniStreamNG, and there are only four ports in the back."

"The scalability is good, but it comes at a cost. E.g., if you need 100 InfiniStream because you are sending gigs or terabytes of data to one InfiniStream, then you will have to purchase another InfiniStream, which are not cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

54%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	40

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ITRS Geneos?

I do not have the pricing information because it lies with the finance team.

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What needs improvement with ITRS Geneos?

I do not see much room for improvement. Support for data cloud platforms could be great. Modern cloud platforms and data cloud platforms require more attention from the product.

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What is your primary use case for ITRS Geneos?

I was using ITRS Geneos at HSBC. I have been using this product for more than two years. I have 20 years of experience working in IT with software in general. I am working with an on-premises deplo...

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Also Known As

Geneos

InfiniStreamNG, NETSCOUT ISNG, Infinistream

Overview

ITRS Geneos offers a customizable platform for real-time monitoring with minimal system impact, facilitating insights across multiple platforms. Known for its scalability, it efficiently integrates with other tools, supporting industries with its proactive monitoring capabilities.

ITRS Geneos allows users to effectively manage financial services infrastructure by monitoring trading systems, treasury management, and FX operations. It provides real-time dashboards to track server uptime, application performance, and health metrics. Users benefit from its enterprise-wide data aggregation, alerting features, and script adaptability while needing improvement in cloud monitoring and AI-based predictive functionalities. The tool's setup requires some expertise, suggesting a need for more intuitive solutions.

What are the most important features of ITRS Geneos?

Customizable Dashboards: Enables real-time analytics across platforms.
Lightweight Netprobe: Facilitates efficient data aggregation with minimal impact.
Plugin Support: Ensures extensive compatibility and integration.
Proactive Monitoring: Allows for early issue detection and resolution.
Script Adaptability: Supports tailored solutions for specific requirements.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Minimized Manual Intervention: Automation features reduce manual tasks.
Scalability: Easily accommodates growing enterprise needs.
Integration Capabilities: Works seamlessly with existing tools.
Insightful Dashboards: Provides actionable metrics for decision making.

ITRS Geneos is prominently utilized in financial sectors. Banks and financial institutions leverage its capabilities to monitor infrastructure and application performance, optimizing trading systems and FX operations. It builds comprehensive dashboards, offering valuable insights into server health, application logs, and network performance, contributing significantly to operational efficiency.

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NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG delivers fast, cost-efficient network visibility with a single pane of glass view, featuring real-time traffic analysis, dependency mapping, and performance metrics for comprehensive management.

InfiniStreamNG stands out for its real-time insights into network activity, providing a unified platform for managing network components. Its deep packet inspection, scalability, and compatibility make it an essential tool for IT professionals looking to optimize network performance and resolve issues quickly. User-friendly interface enhancements are anticipated for improved usability, alongside early product lifecycle notifications due to extensive certification periods.

What are the key features of NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG?

Speed: Enhances real-time traffic analysis and performance monitoring.
Network Visibility: Provides a comprehensive view with single pane device management.
Packet Inspection: Supports deep packet inspections for detailed data analytics.
Stability and Scalability: Ensures reliable performance and adapts to varying network sizes.
Compatibility: Seamlessly integrates with other technologies for smooth operations.

What are the benefits and ROI of using NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG?

Quick Issue Resolution: Identifies and addresses network issues swiftly.
Efficient Utilization: Offers insights for optimizing resource use and network management.
Proactive Monitoring: Facilitates early detection of potential issues to maintain performance.
Application Performance Tracking: Monitors app connectivity and performance effectively.
KPI Evaluation: Provides comprehensive data for informed decision-making.

NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG is implemented across industries for packet collection and analysis, serving network monitoring and troubleshooting needs. Companies in telecommunications monitor LTE roaming traffic, while financial institutions rely on it for analyzing banking data. It supports application connectivity checks and proactive remote site monitoring, becoming integral in evaluating KPIs and reporting network issues.

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Sample Customers

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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