ITRS Geneos vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

ITRS and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ITRS is ranked #69 with an average rating of 5.0, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.7. ITRS holds a 0.6% mindshare in NMS, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

ITRS Geneos

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and ITRS Geneos are competitors in the network monitoring solutions market. Based on their cost-effectiveness and robust feature set, PRTG Network Monitor appears more advantageous for small to mid-sized businesses focused on budget-friendly monitoring. In contrast, ITRS Geneos is suited for larger enterprises requiring advanced capabilities and is often considered more expensive.

Features:PRTG Network Monitor is praised for its rapid deployment, scale flexibility, and intuitive interface. It offers extensive sensor options for detailed network monitoring and provides a customizable dashboard. ITRS Geneos is valued for its real-time monitoring capabilities, customizable plug-ins, and ability to integrate custom scripts for tailored monitoring solutions. It offers a flexible, comprehensive insight into complex environments.

Room for Improvement:PRTG could improve in accommodating larger environments more cost-effectively and reducing complexities in scaling. It may need to enhance its subscription models to be more economically viable for larger use cases. Geneos, while powerful, can benefit from simplifying its deployment and configuration process, offering better cost management for high-demand scenarios, and optimizing its real-time data delivery to be less resource-intensive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:PRTG Network Monitor provides a user-friendly installation and quick setup, with good customer support for troubleshooting and guidance. It is known for its straightforward licensing and vendor responsiveness. Geneos offers a highly customizable setup process, which might require more expert handling. Its customer service is robust, often aiding in complex configurations.

Pricing and ROI:PRTG Network Monitor is seen as a cost-effective solution, appreciated for its straightforward, transparent pricing structure and significant ROI due to reduced downtime and proactive monitoring. However, costs may escalate as usage scales. ITRS Geneos tends to be more expensive but offers flexible pricing tailored to customer needs, delivering substantial value in regulatory-compliant industries. Despite higher initial costs, its incident management capabilities are highly regarded in high-stakes environments.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

69th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

48th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th)

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

5th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 4.2%, down from 4.6% 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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Noman-Saleem

Network Support Officer at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd

Detects suden changes but significant pricing concerns affect the effectiveness of network traffic troubleshooting

We use PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring traffic on interfaces and the behavior of network traffic. If there are sudden changes in traffic or any configuration issues, we can sort them out using PRTG. It's very helpful for troubleshooting and monitoring traffic utilization on our interfaces…

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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

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

"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 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."

"The biggest benefit of Geneos is the fact that we can clearly see, if we have an alert, where that alert has come from. We can see the data around that alert and anything that might be relevant is also shown. We can very easily right-click and see why we've received that alert. That's the best part about it, that you've got all the data there with the alerting."

"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."

"One thing we're utilizing in Geneos is the Gateway-SQL. That's really helpful for us. Using Gateway-SQL, we are able to merge two different views into one. Suppose we have to check something in the log and that we have to check something in the database and do a comparison before publishing a result. We can achieve that using Gateway-SQL."

"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."

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

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"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."

"The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime."

"There was only one feature I liked about PRTG Network Monitor a lot, and that was bandwidth monitoring, though, in the newer versions of the tool, that feature is now a bit lacking. Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is also not as expensive. It's a good tool, even for beginners."

"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are bandwidth utilization, user-friendliness, all past report simple retrievals, and timeout features. Additionally, if the solution does go down it is simple to bring it back."

"We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us."

"Accessibility, ease of use (Web GUI, MobileApps). In general, compared with other software"

"The sensors and probes are great, nice and lightweight, they don't take up too many resources on the system. We just deploy them out and they start reporting instantly."

"It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time."

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Cons

"I would like better access to the data that is being collected."

"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."

"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."

"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."

"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."

"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."

"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."

"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."

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"The free version only gives us 100 free sensors to use. It would be nice if there was double that."

"We run it in a cluster, so we have two that run together. The cluster behind it is sketchy at times."

"It probably has this already, but if it had a mobile app that would be helpful. For example, on a day like today when I'm out, if I could just fire it up and see green, green, green, green, green or red, that would be good."

"PRTG Network Monitor can improve by having better integration with devices."

"This solution is a good product so far, but I haven't been using it long enough to know how it could be improved."

"Sometimes, our PRTG Network Monitor system crashes and a lot of sensors go down."

"PRTG Network Monitor should provide syslog monitoring since it is not available at this time."

"We would like to monitor certain aspects of the user experience. We should be able to analyze the cause of end user experience, bad or good, so we can do some research and development on our own."

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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."

"It is expensive. They have to look at the model around when we move to cloud and how that's going to work. The licensing cost does pay off because of the improvements in support to our business."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"ITRS Geneos is not a cheap tool. It's a moderate price for the banking industry. The reason we are not able to add the ITRS monitoring tool for the non-banking industries, and non-finance industries, is that the pricing is too high."

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"Because we are only on the free version, we have a limited number of sensors. Therefore, we are not monitoring as much as we want to be to obtain historical information."

"It's a cost-efficient tool."

"Right now, the smallest sensor pack that they have is just a bit out of range for me, as a business. This kills me, as I need the product. Therefore, there is always a balance between needing to buy it or continuing their free version."

"The pricing is reasonable for the features provided."

"While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year."

"We are using the premium version of PRTG Network Monitor. The price of the solution is a bit higher than competitors but it is worth the extra money. However, it would be helpful if the price was lower."

"We have unlimited devices and sensors, and it is a bit pricey, but we do have unlimited sensors. With all things considered the price is fine, related to the solution itself. PRTG Network Monitor is good value for money."

"We pay for a perpetual license and we have a support fee."

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May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

74%

Computer Software Company

University

Construction Company

Educational Organization

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The pricing is in the middle. It's not too high, nor too low, but it's reasonable.

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Also Known As

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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

ITRS

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

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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.

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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