We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and Prometheus based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prometheus is the preferred choice over ITRS Geneos due to its integration capabilities, affordability, and flexibility. Despite ITRS Geneos' comprehensive monitoring and alert management solution, it lacks thread-level monitoring and is not as lightweight. Prometheus is highly praised for its fast data storage system, scraping mechanism, and ability to extract data from multiple sources. It is also free and has a good return on investment, making it a valuable investment for monitoring needs.
"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 NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"ITRS uses SNMP to communicate with our devices as well as SNMP net probes installed on our servers."
"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."
"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."
"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"
"Ability to monitor logs for potential issues to prevent app outages before problems get a chance to arise. That's invaluable for our teams in a fast-paced trading environment."
"The most valuable feature is that we can receive information in different formats."
"It is highly valuable as it serves as the foundation for our infrastructure monitoring tools."
"The best thing about Prometheus is its integration."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"It is an efficient solution."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"It is a stable solution...Based on the feedback I have received from my colleagues in our company's IT department, the setup phase of the solution is relatively easy."
"It lets me proactively identify and resolve system issues. This, in terms of, most of the time, really reduces downtime. Because when there are notifications on time when we engage it quickly on time, our downtime is highly reduced. So basically, Prometheus is for monitoring and alerting."
"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."
"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."
"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 better access to the data that is being collected."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"For the solution to stay relevant in the cloud-based monitoring environment Geneos needs more plug-ins with more features. Instead of offering clients workarounds, the solution should have a cloud-based out-of-the-box version."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"Its stability could be even better."
"If you are not quite technical, it can be pretty hard to understand the way it works and how to query data in Prometheus."
"Its documentation could be clearer to understand."
"The primary area where Prometheus could be improved is in terms of pricing, particularly when used with managed services."
"They could provide efficient logs in terms of clarity and ease of access similar to Datadog’s paid version."
"The product must improve its documentation."
"When it comes to deployment, if you have no experience with something like a CI/CD pipeline, it might be a challenge."
"There is a need for a more comprehensive overview of exporters, especially when dealing with many of them."
ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews while Prometheus is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 32 reviews. ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2, while Prometheus is rated 8.4. 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 Prometheus writes "A very flexible open box that can be used vastly to do anything you need". ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Prometheus is most compared with Azure Monitor, New Relic, Dynatrace, Sentry and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. See our ITRS Geneos vs. Prometheus report.
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