We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and Zabbix 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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 NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"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."
"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."
"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."
"The clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."
"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 most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The basic setup is very easy."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."
"The solution is quite mature and very stable."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is a part of the rules for monitoring alerts. I want to understand more about how to choose the samples and the requirements for the rules. That is the part that I want to understand better and get better training for."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"The user interface could be better."
"The stability could be better."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."
"The server monitoring could be better."
"Look and feel."
ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 100 reviews. ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana and Datadog, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our ITRS Geneos vs. Zabbix report.
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