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 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."
"The comparison feature is very good."
"The integration between Loki and Tempo is valuable."
"The most valuable aspect is customization. There are many customizations possible, so I like that."
"We can write queries in different languages, which is beneficial for visualization."
"It excels in providing comprehensive details when there are downtimes or fluctuations, offering thorough reports."
"Plugin: Connecting Grafana to multiple APIs of leading monitoring tools and alerting tools."
"Grafana is able to connect with multiple data sources, unlike Elasticsearch."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"One of the most valuable features is that it can be configured by non-developers. It doesn't require development expertise to configure it."
"They should improve the functioning of its editing tool."
"Multiple dashboards combined into one dashboard has slowed things down for us."
"The solution must provide tutorials and guides."
"There is room for improvement when using multiple dashboards because they can become complicated to keep track of and use."
"It's difficult to see the trends on the graph when the range is too long."
"We need different kinds of applications in our infrastructure to see information in Grafana."
"The main drawback is the necessity for endpoint monitoring."
"The solution has room for improvement with a better API to help automate the construction of the dashboards easier."
"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"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."
"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."
"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."
"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 also like to see suggested guidelines to accomplish a monitoring task. The issue is that ITRS is so flexible that there is more than one way to complete a task, each with benefits and disadvantages."
"t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers."
Grafana is ranked 6th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 39 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 12th 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, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Elastic Observability and Coralogix, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, Prometheus and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Grafana vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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