We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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: AppDynamics stands out for its extensive range of features, including the ability to monitor applications of different technologies, release management capabilities, and business insights. ITRS Geneos, on the other hand, is highly customizable and flexible, with real-time data monitoring and reasonable pricing. However, it lacks a mobile app and needs improvement in dashboarding and cloud monitoring. AppDynamics is preferred overall for its comprehensive features.
"The most valuable feature is having our services being available and healthy."
"The monitoring is similar to Dynatrace."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"The release management capabilities are great."
"The solution helps us save a lot of time on certain tasks."
"The transaction snapshots let you find out where the application broke; it pinpoints where in the call stack, and then how long it took to resolve."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"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."
"The solution is used across the entire investment banking division, covering environments such as electronic trading, algo-trading, fixed income, FX, etc. It monitors that environment and enables a bank to significantly reduce down time. Although hard to measure, since implementation, we have probably seen some increased stability because of it and we have definitely seen teams a lot more aware of their environment. Consequently, we can be more proactive in challenging and improving previously undetected weaknesses."
"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."
"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)."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."
"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."
"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."
"AppDynamics's agent management could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the MST model. It would be more helpful if it could be offered as a managed service provider model with more multi-tenancy and features."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."
"There could be some improvement in the constructions of the diagrams, it is too difficult currently."
"The solution could improve by covering more technologies. For example, it does support .NET Core applications. However, it could be a bit better."
"There are many KPIs that are not available in AppDynamics."
"SQL statement monitoring"
"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."
"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."
"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."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"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."
"I would really like to see something from the Geneos side to set up automated reporting from ITRS. We have to send reporting to management every day. To do that we have to check the dashboard and then we have to report whether everything is fine or not. In the future, I want something, some reporting kind of feature in ITRS, where it can collect all the data and mention what is green, what is amber, what is red in a report."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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 is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ThousandEyes, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AppDynamics vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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