ITRS Geneos vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

ITRS and Splunk are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. ITRS is ranked #34 with an average rating of 5.0, while Splunk is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2. ITRS holds a 1.2% mindshare in APM, compared to Splunk’s 4.6% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 17, 2025

Splunk AppDynamics and ITRS Geneos are both competitors in the application performance monitoring and real-time monitoring space. Based on detailed feature comparisons, Splunk AppDynamics appears to have an edge with its comprehensive application ecosystem monitoring capabilities.

Features: Splunk AppDynamics provides detailed stack traces, deep dive monitoring, and end-to-end transaction analysis, offering JVM memory and hardware monitoring, application flow maps, and real-time performance analytics. ITRS Geneos excels in real-time monitoring with advanced integration capability and customization options for complex financial systems, fine-tuned for stability and performance across varied infrastructures.

Room for Improvement: Splunk AppDynamics could enhance its user interface by simplifying custom dashboard setups and expanding support for emerging technologies like cloud-native setups. Enhancements in asynchronous call tracking and a more intuitive licensing model could improve user satisfaction. ITRS Geneos would benefit from better historical data visualization tools, improved AI predictive capabilities, easier configuration, and stronger mobile integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk AppDynamics offers flexible deployment options across various cloud environments with rapid, industry-praised customer service for problem-solving. ITRS Geneos is predominantly on-premises, emphasizing stability in existing infrastructures, with solid customer service albeit a more challenging setup process compared to Splunk AppDynamics.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk AppDynamics is perceived as a costly investment due to necessary feature licenses, but the ROI is deemed substantial through enhanced visibility and troubleshooting, reducing downtime and operational costs. ITRS Geneos, also expensive, justifies its investment through its unique financial sector capabilities and offers pricing flexibility based on customer size, with ROI evident in preventing infrastructure failures and regulatory breaches.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

34th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

49th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (69th)

Splunk AppDynamics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

4th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

250

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 4.6%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

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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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Application performance management and error resolution improved with data-driven insights

Dynatrace has multiple functions compared to Splunk AppDynamics, so Splunk AppDynamics should add those functions, which are not available as of now. Dynatrace has a universal agent that collects all information related to their CI, and if one CI has multiple languages, then there is no need to instrument multiple agents. However, Splunk AppDynamics requires multiple agents; if I have one server with multiple applications in different languages, then I need to instrument different agents for each application. Splunk AppDynamics should work with Dynatrace with one single universal agent that works with all application languages, eliminating the need for multiple implementations.

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

"The ability to logically normalize data gathered from multiple types of sources via pre-built plugins is extremely powerful. This functionality, coupled with the ability to import custom data via the Toolkit plugin allows Geneos to be leveraged to monitor every system in the enterprise."

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

"It's also easy to implement. The implementation of Geneos is very easy and interesting. It's not complicated. It's very quick to implement. The installation is very easy. There are many topics about ITRS Geneos that explain more about the features of the function of Geneos."

"One of the best aspects of Geneos is that it has a broad scope and can cover a lot of use cases. You can write your own scripts to monitor really specific things. And the rules that you can put in place can be quite complex for the alerts."

"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."

"The clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."

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"We have found the scalability to be quite good."

"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."

"We were able to correct problems, which led to an increase in availability, time savings, and performance for our solutions."

"The most valuable feature is the flow map."

"It gives me the ability to trace logs between transactions, for example, a DB transaction or JVM transaction from one hub to the other. I can easily find out where the problem is or where the bottleneck of the issues lies."

"We previously had an operations team continuously monitoring applications. Now, they just have set things up and our developers can monitor, view, and act on them, accordingly."

"Whenever the application crashes from user behavior, we can easily simulate the error. We are happy with this feature and find it to be valuable."

"The correlation feature available with AppDynamics Server Monitoring is absent in other competitive solutions"

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Cons

"The deployment method for upgrading is a bit tricky. It takes a little bit of manual effort. If that could be a bit more automated, it would help us a lot."

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

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

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

"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."

"I would also like to see suggested guidelines to accomplish a monitoring task. The issue is that ITRS is so flexible that there is more than one way to complete a task, each with benefits and disadvantages."

"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."

"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."

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"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."

"Application Analytics' performance in pure and native cloud environments could be improved."

"The AppDynamics installation process needs to be more straightforward. Deploying the product is also tricky."

"AppD is really cool and a unified solution for both APM and APM centric Analytics side. We can show almost all business data within the APM context from the end-user perspetive. But this process is a little bit manual. If they catch and map business journeys based on customer interaction on the browser automatically, it should be really fine."

"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."

"The integration part in AppDynamics with other systems is an area with a little difficulty, especially when it comes to the configuration area. The integration of AppDynamics with other products takes a lot of time."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring could improve the price of the solution, it is costly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"It is expensive. However, our time to recover has been reduced, and this product has helped recuperate costs and provided us with ROI."

"Pricing is based on the size of the deployment."

"The pricing model for AppDynamics could be better. You have to subscribe to a yearly or a three-year licensing, which isn't very handy. The solution is one of the most expensive in the market today."

"I give the price a five out of ten."

"There is no standard license instead, the license is adapted to the organization's requirements."

"AppDynamics does not usually do monthly payments. They do it on an annual basis, at the very least."

"You are required to purchase licenses whether you use it or not. It is not pay-as-you-use."

"The product’s licencing policy is competitive. However, properly identify and size your needs to get the best rate."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

73%

Computer Software Company

University

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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APM tools for a Managed Service Provider - Dynatrace vs. AppDynamics vs. Aternity vs. Ruxit

Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with...

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What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

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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

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Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

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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.

Cisco, Sony, Nasdaq, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Edmunds.com, Puma, Fox News, DirecTV, Pizza Hut, T-Systems, Cornell University, OpenTable, BITMARCK, Green Mountain Power, Care.com, Overstock, Paddy Power, eHarmony, Kraft, The Motley Fool, The Container Store, and more See more customers

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