We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and ServiceNow IT Operations Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"The ability to logically normalize data gathered from multiple types of sources via pre-built plugins is extremely powerful. This functionality, coupled with the ability to import custom data via the Toolkit plugin allows Geneos to be leveraged to monitor every system in the enterprise."
"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."
"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 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 most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"The dashboard maintenance is very good, and the tool doesn't get stuck."
"The solution is very capable and user friendly."
"It helps streamline management and processes."
"Their Event Management is very good."
"The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication."
"Provides everything in one solution."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to track information in an easy way."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. A person just needs to join a team to access the network and that's all."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"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."
"There is one drawback to using lightweight data collection: we lack the feature of observability based on time series, such as historical model data. This makes it difficult to view data in ITRS. ITRS needs to improve this feature."
"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."
"t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers."
"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."
"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."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"The initial setup phase was hard and could be made easier."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management could do a little bit better with integrations. Integrating ServiceNow IT Operations Management with CMDB processes needs a little more work."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of ServiceNow."
"I advise others not to customize a lot while using the solution."
"The time for deployment of ServiceNow IT Operations Management depends on many factors. It's a SaaS application, it should not take too long, but if you want to define the tool based on your processes, then it would take some time. It fully depends on the company's complexity. There are out-of-the-box product flows and if you want to use them, you can from day one. However, if you want to customize it and change it to your company's practices, then it will take more time. The setup could be faster."
"If you are new to using the solution, you will find the setup complex."
"When it comes to improvements, I think that my colleagues and I often have issues finding the correct screen and the search box does not work as intended."
"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."
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ITRS Geneos is ranked 15th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 57 reviews while ServiceNow IT Operations Management is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 34 reviews. ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2, while ServiceNow IT Operations Management 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 ServiceNow IT Operations Management writes "A very capable solution that includes a valuable, user-friendly workflow management tool". ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus and BigPanda, whereas ServiceNow IT Operations Management is most compared with OpsRamp, Moogsoft, Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), Datadog and BMC TrueSight Operations Management. See our ITRS Geneos vs. ServiceNow IT Operations Management report.
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