We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is the preferred choice over ITRS Geneos due to its integration capabilities, affordability, and flexibility. Despite ITRS Geneos' comprehensive monitoring and alert management solution, it lacks thread-level monitoring and is not as lightweight. Prometheus is highly praised for its fast data storage system, scraping mechanism, and ability to extract data from multiple sources. It is also free and has a good return on investment, making it a valuable investment for monitoring needs.
"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."
"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 remarkable feature of Geneos is the dashboard. Geneos' flexible dashboard sets it apart from other monitoring tools. Other solutions have limitations in their dashboard design and can't be customized as much. The Geneos dashboard allows unlimited creativity."
"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'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."
"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."
"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 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)."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is useful to collect huge metrics."
"The sky is the limit because the solution is a flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need to monitor applications."
"The solution can be deployed in thirty minutes."
"Prometheus gives us high availability automatically."
"Prometheus is an open-source product that helps mold and improve it per our requirements. It is a lightweight solution that gives you many different metrics you can use in your application. The product offers complete granularity of your infrastructure. It integrates seamlessly with other tools like Grafana, which offers dashboard visibility. Prometheus is an extensively used product. I haven't seen any organization that is not using it."
"The product’s scalability is valuable."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"One area where there is room for improvement is the log file. I would like to be able to do a pre-run on the log files. When you are testing log files for regular expressions, it would be good to be able to do a quick check up front on that side of things before you release that into production."
"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"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."
"They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"The interface is not particularly user-friendly and that could be improved."
"There isn’t much clarity regarding the issues that happen at the server end. It is a push model and from the client’s point of view, it needs to look better and solve remote issues."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Its stability could be even better."
"The setup process could be more straightforward."
"The solution's error handling part could be improved."
"The DSL could be improved."
ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "The flexible dashboard sets it apart from competing tools, but it's costly and lacks scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our ITRS Geneos vs. Prometheus report.
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