We performed a comparison between AppDynamics Database Monitoring and ITRS Geneos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found some of the valuable features of AppDynamics Database Monitoring to be once the installation is complete, you are able to quickly start receiving metrics, which is great. The user interface is also very user-friendly."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring's most valuable feature is the ability of the out-of-the-box to update the information, provide various metrics, and possibly include custom metrics."
"We were able to correct problems, which led to an increase in availability, time savings, and performance for our solutions."
"You have a live view of what happens when something goes wrong on the production or support side. You don't have to scramble and do guesswork. We can identify the query that creates the bottleneck or slows the performance of the database system. It can give you points on how to debug and fix the system."
"The product is easy to install, it took about half an hour. The use and the configurations are simple as well."
"Database scaling or migration projects play a supportive role throughout the development, monitoring, and troubleshooting phases."
"Visibility to the end-users is a valuable feature."
"The solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."
"It's a very powerful application monitoring tool across the industry. Many free, open-source tools are available. There are also paid tools, but ITRS Geneos is a real-time application monitoring tool where the user can monitor, self-configure, and manage alerts through their console."
"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."
"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 of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"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 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."
"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."
"AppDynamics Database Monitoring would be improved with more support for microservices architecture."
"The scalability could be improved."
"An improvement could be if the monitoring was able to be summarized into something more clear and simple for people who don't have the technical skills on the database side."
"The solution must improve security and setup."
"The setup, implementation and use are clumsy and need to be refined."
"The solution should add some monitoring similar to Oracle monitoring tools for databases. It has a lot of features to monitor SQL queries, and make some recommendation to resolve it. AppDynamics is just monitoring for delays and doesn't provide any recommendations for that. It's a deficiency."
"The networking monitor function could be better, we are not getting many details from it."
"The user access management could be a bit better."
"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."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
"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."
"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."
"ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."
"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."
"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."
"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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AppDynamics Database Monitoring is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 30 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 12th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. AppDynamics Database Monitoring is rated 7.8, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics Database Monitoring writes "Good application performance features along with a very simple and tool navigation". 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". AppDynamics Database Monitoring is most compared with AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Datadog and Prometheus. See our AppDynamics Database Monitoring vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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