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."
"I always appreciate Geneos's stability and ease of use."
"The ability to build integrations to tools that are not monitored out of the box is the most valuable feature."
"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"
"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"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."
"The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"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."
"The initial setup was very quick. The first time it was long because I didn't know it yet. I was only using Windows. The first time was very difficult because of the operating system."
"Like other common Linux distributions, some of the most valuable features of this solution are the ease of use and deployment. It's simple and has a lot of packages and a lot of software."
"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"
"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"I would like better access to the data that is being collected."
"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."
"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."
"ITRS have started to make some major changes that we haven't taken on board yet, in the creation of dashboards and more visibility of the metrics that we collect. At the moment, that's something that's lacking, but I know they have addressed it. Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
"The event correlation could be better."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."
"The performance reporting could be improved."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"There is a bit of a learning curve during installation."
ITRS Geneos is ranked 10th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 56 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 96 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 Prometheus, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core. See our ITRS Geneos vs. Zabbix report.
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