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."
"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."
"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"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."
"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."
"Custom script toolkits"
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."
"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."
"The System Center Operations Manager can be improved."
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 Prometheus, 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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