We performed a comparison between Grafana and ITRS Geneos based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Grafana boasts customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexible integration with other tools, and the ability to cater to multiple use cases. Meanwhile, ITRS Geneos, while highly customizable and flexible, requires a lot of manual work for creating dashboards and lacks a mobile app. It also has a complex initial setup process and may be too expensive for non-banking and non-finance industries. Overall, Grafana is more user-friendly and cost-effective, with a wider range of features and better community support, making it the preferred solution.
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"The product's initial setup phase was very easy."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"The most valuable thing was that it had a good visualization tool."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"The installation process is easy. We have deployed it on the cloud. I have around 20 to 30 people using the solution in my company."
"Almost any kind of visualization is possible with Grafana and all dashboards are configurable."
"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"The ability to completely tailor and customize what it's monitoring is one of its strongest points. A lot of other monitoring tools are good at certain things, but one of my colleagues described it as the “Swiss Army Knife” of monitoring tools. It can do anything you want."
"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."
"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."
"It enables us to monitor application processes, to do log-monitoring on a 24/7 basis, to do server-level monitoring - all the hardware parameters - as well as monitor connectivity across applications to the interfaces."
"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 clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"If there was an issue on one node, we couldn't drill down and see all the issues on other nodes."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"Grafana doesn't provide anything for reporting."
"Writing queries can be a bit difficult because the syntax must be maintained."
"There are not a lot of plugins for financial market monitoring."
"t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers."
"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."
"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."
"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."
"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."
"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."
"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."
"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."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Coralogix, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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