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ITRS Geneos pros and cons

Vendor: ITRS

4.1 out of 5

57 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

ITRS Geneos features a lightweight Netprobe, customizable Active Console, and Gateway-SQL for data analysis. Users can write scripts and set tailored alerts, integrating with diverse monitoring needs. However, it needs improvement in scaling, automated reporting, log file testing, mobile phone integration, and process thread-level monitoring.

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PROS

Netprobe is lightweight, using fewer system resources compared to agents from most monitoring tools and requires less effort to install on monitored servers.

Active Console features exceptional filtering capabilities, allowing users to customize what data they see in real-time.

Gateway-SQL enhances functionality by enabling the merging of different data views and simplifying complex data comparisons.

ITRS Geneos offers broad scope and customization potential, capable of covering a wide array of use cases through user-defined scripts and complex rule setups for alerts.

ITRS Geneos features robust stability and easy implementation, allowing for quick setup and effective real-time monitoring across various environments such as electronic trading and algorithmic trading.

CONS

ITRS Geneos needs more ability to clone aspects of an implementation for rapid scaling, especially when implementing things on new servers or gateways.

The deployment method for upgrading ITRS Geneos is tricky and requires a lot of manual effort, which could be more automated.

There is room for improvement in the log file handling of ITRS Geneos, especially in doing pre-runs on log files to check regular expressions before releasing them into production.

ITRS Geneos needs to develop an app for mobile phone integration to increase accessibility without requiring a big client installation.

ITRS Geneos lacks historical model data for observability based on time series, making it difficult to view data over time.

ITRS Geneos Pros review quotes

Big Data Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2016

The ability to build integrations to tools that are not monitored out of the box is the most valuable feature.

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Systems Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2016

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).

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Manager, Enterprise Integration at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2016

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.

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VP, Lead Software Development Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 5, 2016

The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer.

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Business Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

May 10, 2016

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

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Infrastructure and Release Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 10, 2016

In my experience, being able to monitor our databases is a valuable feature as we can create our own queries and aren't reliant on the in-built ones.

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Application Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2016

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

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Project Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2016

Tons of default modules which are available out of the box

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Associate-Compliance Risk Project at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 21, 2016

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.

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QlikView Administrator and Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 9, 2016

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.

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ITRS Geneos Cons review quotes

Big Data Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2016

At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting.

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Systems Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2016

Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful.

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Manager, Enterprise Integration at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2016

Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness.

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VP, Lead Software Development Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 5, 2016

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

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Business Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

May 10, 2016

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

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Infrastructure and Release Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 10, 2016

t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers.

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Application Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 19, 2016

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

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Project Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

May 29, 2016

The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer.

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Associate-Compliance Risk Project at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 21, 2016

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

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QlikView Administrator and Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 9, 2016

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.

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