ITRS Geneos vs NIKSUN NetVCR comparison

ITRS and NIKSUN are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ITRS is ranked #63 with an average rating of 6.5, while NIKSUN is ranked #98. ITRS holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to NIKSUN’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution.

ITRS Geneos

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ITRS Geneos and NIKSUN NetVCR are competing in the network monitoring and analytics category. While both products offer valuable solutions, NIKSUN NetVCR seems to have an upper hand due to its advanced feature set.

Features: ITRS Geneos offers customizable dashboards, real-time monitoring capabilities, and high adaptability to varied IT environments. NIKSUN NetVCR provides in-depth packet capture, comprehensive network analysis, and advanced analytics that deliver superior visibility into network traffic.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos could benefit from enhancing features for deeper network analysis, expanding its analytics capabilities, and improving packet capture functionalities. NIKSUN NetVCR could focus on simplifying deployment processes, enhancing initial setup guidance, and refining user interface complexity for ease of use.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos offers seamless deployment with robust implementation support, making it easier and more straightforward to implement than NIKSUN NetVCR. While NIKSUN NetVCR may be more complex to deploy due to its comprehensive capabilities, it also benefits from responsive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos presents a lower initial setup cost, providing a faster ROI for organizations seeking a cost-effective solution. NIKSUN NetVCR, with a higher initial investment, offers long-term ROI driven by its exhaustive feature set, appealing to tech buyers focused on comprehensive analysis.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

63rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (35th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (42nd)

NIKSUN NetVCR

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

98th

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NIKSUN NetVCR is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Himanshu Shah

Partner at Opticom Data Products

High performance, quick packet monitoring, and helpful support

The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately. In a feature release of the solution they should add features related to automation and remediation. Automation would help increase level of security the solution provides.

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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

"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 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."

"The built-in plug-ins allow administrators to easily configure monitoring components for market data systems such as Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and SRLabs Wombat (formerly NYSE)."

"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."

"ITRS can define rules to alert when certain parameters that you monitor breach a threshold. Rules can be configured to fire recovery actions automatically to clear the alert"

"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."

"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."

"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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"The unique selling point of NIKSUN is its ability to scale and its reporting capabilities. NIKSUN captures the packets at a very high speed, from one GB to 160 Gbps also. It offers report granularity in nanoseconds."

"The most valuable features of NIKSUN NetVCR are its performance and forensic capabilities. Additionally, the information that the solution provides is highly detailed and useful. When dealing with network traffic packets can be sent at a high speed causing some security issues, but this solution is able to rapidly monitor the packets providing security."

Cons

"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."

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

"One thing that could be improved in terms of rapid scaling would be more ability to clone aspects of an implementation. It seems like there are opportunities in this area, where we have repetitive tasks to do when it comes to implementing things on new servers or on new gateways. It would be great if there was an easy way to clone something that had already been done."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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"The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately."

"NIKSUN is a passive solution. It provides you with you data, alerts, reports and the root cause of issues. However, it requires a person to make use of this functionality. If an event is happening and nobody attends to it, the effects of the event could be severe."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

More ITRS Geneos pricing and cost advice

"The price of the solution is high. There is an annual license costs."

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Top Industries

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ITRS Geneos?

I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option.

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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 do you like most about NIKSUN NetVCR?

The most valuable features of NIKSUN NetVCR are its performance and forensic capabilities. Additionally, the information that the solution provides is highly detailed and useful. When dealing with ...

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What needs improvement with NIKSUN NetVCR?

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What is your primary use case for NIKSUN NetVCR?

I am using NIKSUN NetVCR and selling the solution to customers. NIKSUN NetVCR is a solution that catches all the packets and is able to see the source IP and other details about the connection. The...

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Also Known As

Geneos

NetVCR

Overview

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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Powered by groundbreaking technologies, NIKSUN NetVCR redefines the way we monitor networks. It provides seamless service and application performance analytics for the right visibility into your traditional, virtual or hybrid environments. The NetVCR suite gives you unmatched insight while still dramatically reducing power consumption by 60% and requiring 80% less rack space.

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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.

Visa, FedEx, CitiGroup, IDC

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