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 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 great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."
"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"
"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."
"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 ability to build integrations to tools that are not monitored out of the box is the most valuable feature."
"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."
"It enables us to monitor application processes, to do log-monitoring on a 24/7 basis, to do server-level monitoring - all the hardware parameters - as well as monitor connectivity across applications to the interfaces."
"I like its lightweight configuration functions."
"The most valuable feature of Prometheus is its ability to collect metrics."
"The most valuable features of Prometheus are the many functions available. The functions are helpful for understanding the behavior of applications and infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of the solution are metrics scraping capabilities and the open source community and support."
"The good thing is it integrates well with the Grafana dashboard. It comes with a UI where you see everything as a graph."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"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."
"t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers."
"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."
"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."
"I would like to see ITRS integrate its setup editor with a SVN to check-in setup XML after major changes."
"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."
"I would like better access to the data that is being collected."
"Their cloud monitoring solution needs to be improved. I have already given them the feedback that it's not capable of meeting the latest technology needs."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"The alert functionality is kind of lackluster."
"Prometheus has a learning curve when setting it up. It definitely requires a little bit more hands-on than other solutions. It is an open source solution which means you do need to go through and read the literature that they have online for setting it up. The setup could be made easier."
"I would like to see improvement in the analysis tools and customization features."
"One potential area for improvement would be fixing the occasional glitches and bugs."
"Setting up the rules in Prometheus can be confusing, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to clusterize."
"The DSL could be improved."
"Prometheus' UI color can improve. Using the Prometheus UI for configuration or analyzing queries is a horrible experience."
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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