ITRS Geneos alternatives and competitors

Our company is a FinTech financial institution. We expose financial APIs for major FinTechs in the US. Basically, we are a bank and have a lot of applications running behind the scenes. APM is super crucial to our organization. We need to be able to interact, understand, and get a holistic or 360-degree view about everything going on in the organization. This view includes the infrastructure and the application sides. 

The solution helps developers get a holistic view of their application performance under the AKS environment. This is especially important in lower environments where developers need to interact with everything from performance to logging perspectives. In the very early stages, the solution gives developers a quite good overview about how they are developing products and how they can make them work more efficiently. 

The solution is on-premises at our own data centers. We have an additional, hybrid installation with Amazon that includes a private cloud. 

We have 150 engineers who use the solution for applications running under the Kubernetes environment. 

The sky is the limit because the solution is a very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications. There is nothing that you cannot do with it. Every day, our developers or SRE teams are adding additional features with the ability to think outside the box and configure whatever they want. 

The solution is the most common, major tool for FinTech or high-tech companies. Every technology company using Kubernetes is using the solution. 

The setup could be made easier for new users because it requires a bit of advance knowledge or experience. 

I currently manage our teams that use the solution. Previously, I had hands-on experience with the solution. 

The solution is stable with no reported issues. 

The solution is scalable. 

We have not needed technical support. 

The setup is not too complicated. If you have experience with the solution, then setup is an easy task. I rate setup a five out of ten. 

The basic configuration and deployment parts are easy. The more complicated part is creating the benchmark and alert behind it to make sure it gives us what we need from the application side. Customizing the solution for our needs takes more time. 

We implemented the solution in-house. We have a big devops team and a big SRE or platform engineers team. This is their bread and butter and they create Terraform infrastructures or services for a living.

If you use the solution, then you will definitely realize ROI. 

The solution is not expensive. In comparison to the pricing of New Relic or Datadog, the solution is basically free. 

We use several tools to accomplish our goals including the solution, New Relic APM, Datadog, Elasticsearch, and Amazon OpenSearch. 

New Relic APM and Datadog are closed box legacy tools. You cannot reconfigure them to do whatever you want. We use them because they have certain abilities but they cannot be customized for our specific needs.  

The solution is an open box Kubernetes tool so we have the ability to play with it. 

Make sure that you have dedicated manpower to configure and manage the solution. It requires handling, not necessarily on a daily basis, but it definitely requires someone who is focused and has expertise with the solution. 

Know in advance what you want to gain from the solution. Don't jump in to configuring or deploying before knowing what you expect from it. 

I like the solution very much. I think it is a major tool, especially in advanced environments. The open box provides a lot of flexibility and gives a very holistic view of the entire Kubernetes environment. 

Integrating with the Rancher management tool gives the solution even more abilities. There are several tools that we use behind the scenes to ease the process but the solution on its own is a very good tool. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution for the service catalog.

We use this type of offering for our Microservices applications, and it gives a good view of flow. It is a must when we have different developers working on different services.

Having the trace and log features are useful for locating the microservice for the on-call person.

We would like to see some more useful applications for health monitoring where we can customize the cases based on data from the database.

It needs to have the facility to monitor data inside tables and the status of the UI.

The service catalog helped improve our organization by giving a good view of the flow for our microservices applications. It's important when we have different developers working on different services and having the trace and log features help the on-call person locate the microservice.

The application performance monitoring has also been useful. This module had a few functionalities that we needed for the application health check. This needs to have some more features to consolidate the view in one tree. We may need more of a one-stop shop on top of the dashboard, and that is missing in Datadog. We'd like to be able to scrap our existing monitoring tool.

The service catalog is very useful. We use this type of offering for our Microservices applications, and it gives a good view of flow. It is a must when we have different developers working on different services. Having the trace and log features have been useful in order to locate the microservice for the on-call person.

The dashboard is great. It is helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application. It has been a good way to watch specific things and add them together.

The application performance monitoring is an excellent aspect. This module had a few functionalities that we needed for the application health check. This needs to have some more features to consolidate the view into one tree, however.

The dashboard could be improved. It would be helpful to get a view of specific things that we need to monitor for our application. However, it was a good way to watch specific things and add them together.

The application performance monitoring module had very few functionalities that we needed for the application health check. This needs to have some more features to consolidate the view into one tree.

I've used the solution for one month. 

We previously used ITRS Geneos.

We are using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.