We performed a comparison between AppDynamics 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: AppDynamics stands out for its extensive range of features, including the ability to monitor applications of different technologies, release management capabilities, and business insights. ITRS Geneos, on the other hand, is highly customizable and flexible, with real-time data monitoring and reasonable pricing. However, it lacks a mobile app and needs improvement in dashboarding and cloud monitoring. AppDynamics is preferred overall for its comprehensive features.
"After we implemented this solution, we can easily determine the root cause of issues."
"Has helped us to increase customer acquisitions and reduce revenue leakage."
"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."
"AppDynamics has been stable."
"The features that I like best are the dashboard and Business Journey."
"From the performance management side, I like everything from business transaction work to tracking. On the database side, we can get a lot of insights from the database. On the server monitoring side, it helped us a lot to find out some of the issues on the VM side because VMs were creating a little trouble for us."
"End-user monitoring (web and mobile)"
"We set up alerts recently so we can fix any issues more quickly in production."
"The Netprobe is so lightweight compared to the agents that most monitoring tools use. It's really superior to the competition. The agent that is used by almost every competitive tool takes a lot more system resources. It's slower and it requires a greater effort and more compromises in terms of security to install on the monitored servers. With Geneos, because it lives outside the code, it is far easier and far less taxing on the monitored systems."
"The biggest benefit of Geneos is the fact that we can clearly see, if we have an alert, where that alert has come from. We can see the data around that alert and anything that might be relevant is also shown. We can very easily right-click and see why we've received that alert. That's the best part about it, that you've got all the data there with the alerting."
"The clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."
"The ability to build integrations to tools that are not monitored out of the box is the most valuable feature."
"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 great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"This solution is expensive."
"Their agents sometimes claim to be very lightweight, especially with databases, but they are very heavy. They can take up more compute than the actual work that we need to do."
"I would like to be able to monitor both cloud an on-prem infrastructures, displayed in one dashboard."
"The GUI can be overwhelming at first to a novice Dev or Ops support person, and the possible root causes of an issue do not bubble up to the first screen you see."
"The solution could be more user-friendly for diagnostic purposes. Anyone who is using the solution should be able to infer what that error is about, they should be able to troubleshoot it better."
"Needs more integration with applications suites, like Oracle Enterprise Server or BMC Remedy."
"AppDynamics could benefit from greater integration with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"They are using Flash for their website, which is very slow. We had hoped the website would be much faster to use, and that is definitely what we want to see."
"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"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."
"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."
"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."
"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."
"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."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 154 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 11th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 57 reviews. AppDynamics is rated 8.2, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AppDynamics writes "Very good real-time monitoring capabilities, deep problem diagnosis, and transaction mapping". 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". AppDynamics is most compared with Dynatrace, Elastic Observability, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and ThousandEyes, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AppDynamics vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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