We performed a comparison between Grafana 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: Grafana boasts customizable and visually appealing graphs, flexible integration with other tools, and the ability to cater to multiple use cases. Meanwhile, ITRS Geneos, while highly customizable and flexible, requires a lot of manual work for creating dashboards and lacks a mobile app. It also has a complex initial setup process and may be too expensive for non-banking and non-finance industries. Overall, Grafana is more user-friendly and cost-effective, with a wider range of features and better community support, making it the preferred solution.
"It is a stable, reliable product."
"Kubernetes could help us to better visualize the trend of our data by recording and displaying our history over a chosen duration, such as the last 30 days."
"What I found most valuable in Grafana is that it has a lot of integrations and features that I need for data processing and visualization."
"It gives us the visibility we need. I like that when we add deployment markers or release markers, we know exactly when an issue arises. For instance, if there is an increased usage of CPU, we can link it directly to the deployment that might have caused the issue. It increases productivity and observability. We can now easily tell when a certain issue arises. It's way easier to debug because it can point you to certain things based on these markers, and we can debug easier."
"Collaboration: Shares data and dashboards across teams."
"The dashboards are the most valuable features."
"The solution can scale well."
"It is easy to change and move virtual servers."
"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."
"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."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"The flexibility of the product is most valuable. It is highly customizable. If you put your mind to it and think of something you could do, there's a good possibility you can get it integrated within the console, if it's not readily available. The simplicity or ease of customization has been valuable."
"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."
"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The product's configuration for saving files could be improved."
"It is limited on the reporting type supported, which is important for managerial-level officers who want reports that are either general or specific."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The security needs to be improved, such as the capacity to add permissions on dashboards."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"Its UI features to create charts can also be improved. Some features could have a link to the documentation."
"Its interface could be more accessible."
"For the last year or two, I've been asking the vendor about the mobile app. This is something that probably everyone asks when they see the tool and they see how powerful it is. If there is any mobile app for this or if there is any way this tool can be more easily accessible other than having a big client installed, it would be great. I know you can build dashboards, et cetera, but there is no quick and easy way. I should be able to download an app, log in, and see my status. That will put this product above everything else out there. I believe it's on their roadmap."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."
"I would like better access to the data that is being collected."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 38 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. Grafana is rated 8.0, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Grafana writes "Agent-free with great dashboards and an active community". 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". Grafana is most compared with New Relic, Azure Monitor, Sentry, Dynatrace and Coralogix, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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