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.
"The best features of AppDynamics would be the code application monitoring capabilities."
"This solution not only provides answers but also provides sensor data. This allows us to quickly resolve issues that developers may take a long time to solve."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
"It helped to find quick solutions for specific business transactions."
"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."
"The business transaction that stands between multiple applications is proving to be most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the fact that it is very easy to use, making it easy to implement...It is a very stable solution."
"Provides monitoring more around business processes versus just servers, applications, etc. E.g., with complex systems, where a business process passes across multiple applications, the business needs us to monitor the heath of the process, not just a segment of the application."
"ITRS can define rules to alert when certain parameters that you monitor breach a threshold. Rules can be configured to fire recovery actions automatically to clear the alert"
"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."
"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."
"The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."
"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."
"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."
"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."
"One thing we're utilizing in Geneos is the Gateway-SQL. That's really helpful for us. Using Gateway-SQL, we are able to merge two different views into one. Suppose we have to check something in the log and that we have to check something in the database and do a comparison before publishing a result. We can achieve that using Gateway-SQL."
"The integration ability of AppDynamics with other performance testing tools is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"AppDynamics is a solution that requires extra learning and could be more user-friendly. Additionally, automated reports would helpful similar to have they have in Google Analytics."
"There could log management features included in the product."
"We would love to see support for more types of agents in the mainframe world."
"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."
"AppDynamics scaled well up to around 3,000 agents. The performance deteriorated after that, while Dynatrace could support more than 10,000 agents. We were surprised that AppDynamics' scalability is not so good."
"The UI could use a little help."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."
"ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."
"One thing that could be improved in terms of rapid scaling would be more ability to clone aspects of an implementation. It seems like there are opportunities in this area, where we have repetitive tasks to do when it comes to implementing things on new servers or on new gateways. It would be great if there was an easy way to clone something that had already been done."
"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."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"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."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
AppDynamics is ranked 5th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 155 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, Prometheus, Datadog and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our AppDynamics vs. ITRS Geneos report.
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