AWS Auto Scaling vs ITRS Geneos comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.7, while ITRS is ranked #33 with an average rating of 5.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 0.4% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

ITRS Geneos and AWS Auto Scaling are highly-rated monitoring and scalability solutions, respectively. ITRS Geneos holds the upper hand in detailed monitoring and alerting, while AWS Auto Scaling excels in automated scalability features and performance management.

Features: ITRS Geneos offers detailed monitoring, real-time alerting, and comprehensive system metrics reporting. AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusts capacity, integrates well with AWS services, and has efficient scaling policies.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos could enhance ease of use and integration capabilities. AWS Auto Scaling could improve documentation and offer more customization options for scaling policies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos deployment is straightforward, but more support is needed during complex setups. AWS Auto Scaling provides seamless deployment through AWS infrastructure, though better support insights are occasionally needed.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos has a higher initial setup cost, justified by detailed data insights. AWS Auto Scaling offers a clear, usage-based pricing model, often yielding a better return on investment due to automatic scaling efficiencies.

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Auto Scaling

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

14th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

33rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (68th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.1%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AWS Auto Scaling	0.4%
ITRS Geneos	1.1%
Other	98.5%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Ishaka Michael Efe

DevOps Engineer Intern at HNG Tech

Automation has simplified traffic management and improved workload efficiency

I'm not really sure what improvements I would want to see in AWS Auto Scaling because I haven't really used it extensively or explored most of it. To the extent that I've used it so far, I think it is very good. I can't really say for certain what should be improved because I haven't really explored it a lot. However, what I've been using it for has been very good. If there could be training for AWS Auto Scaling, that would be fine. If you could add more training on how to use it correctly and on the functions that I haven't used before or some people have not really used before, that would help. If there could be more documentation and training on it, that would be beneficial.

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Sanket

Chief Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

With the help of the solution, we can predict and prevent failures

Currently, the most valuable thing for an individual is a mobile device. Since that is where people are currently tracking everything, we have multiple applications or apps that are for various products. 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. Using the ITRS Geneos app, we could see the error message during our travels or wherever we are. I would like to see the capacity of messages for forecasting increased. Since the NSE is the number one derivative stock exchange in the work for three consecutive years, the number of messages is important. We use the capacity planner in ITRS to forecast our data needs for the next two months. The planner is important because the volume of data we produce is becoming more and more volatile compared to when we first started using ITRS Geneos in 2014.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful."

"Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic scaling capabilities are very useful."

"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."

"The product provides self-healing features."

"Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling."

"It is a stable platform."

"AWS Auto Scaling is very good for managing traffic and creating new instances when necessary."

"The solution's monitoring effectively monitors our application and CPU utilization."

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"This tool allows one to analyse, integrate and customize as per the systems and allows you to set your own rules."

"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."

"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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"

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Cons

"It requires a downtime before deploying the Auto Scaling group."

"The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."

"The solution must improve automation."

"The billing and cost optimization of the solution could be improved."

"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer."

"The speed of the solution must be improved."

"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly."

"If there could be training for AWS Auto Scaling, that would be fine. If you could add more training on how to use it correctly and on the functions that I haven't used before or some people have not really used before, that would help."

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"ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud."

"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."

"Data visualization – real time and historical – is a weakness."

"Currently, it is difficult to monitor secure websites using SSL or with SSO enabled."

"We all look at the same things - CPU, disk space, paging stats, service status with RAG status on each. That could be provided straight out, saving significant time."

"ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."

"One area where there is room for improvement is the log file. I would like to be able to do a pre-run on the log files. When you are testing log files for regular expressions, it would be good to be able to do a quick check up front on that side of things before you release that into production."

"A lightweight version which could host more than 100 gateways, as we can see slowness while loading all our gateways."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has moderate pricing."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The product is expensive."

"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."

"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."

"The organization is not just purchasing a license for the product, but also managing services and professional services from ITRS. Another factor is if the implementation is going to be in production, non-production, or both."

"The product is priced quite high. There are pricing options for customers based on the size of the environment and plug-ins used by the monitoring system."

"The market tools are on par with this solution, but if the solution included more features, then it would be well within the range for the cost."

"You will get the best price if you get a single global deal."

"Pricing is the touchy subject, even here. Upper management always wants us to find a cheaper solution. But we have so much integrated with ITRS... It's expensive, but it does its job very well. And you set it and go."

"The pricing is fairly market-related. They have been very lenient because we have been working with them for so long. An example is that we're currently migrating some of our services to AWS, and they've given us a grace period for some of the things to help with the migration and not to grow additional costs while we are migrating, but it's still on par with the market."

"I can say it's not that cheap because the licensing is a little bit costly"

"It is expensive. They have to look at the model around when we move to cloud and how that's going to work. The licensing cost does pay off because of the improvements in support to our business."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

71%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

University

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	39

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Auto Scaling?

The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. W...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?

I'm not sure about the pricing aspect of AWS Auto Scaling or the cost of it.

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What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ITRS Geneos?

The pricing is high. Licensing fees might be around 500$ per server monthly.

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What needs improvement with ITRS Geneos?

ITRS Geneos is a legacy system. It predicts or provides proactive measures once an issue is resolved. It doesn't offer any predictive capabilities or root cause analysis. They throw a lot of data i...

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What is your primary use case for ITRS Geneos?

ITRS offers multiple products, including upgrades for synthetic monitoring and a SaaS platform. Geneos is used for infrastructure monitoring, covering KPIs such as CPU, memory, processes, network l...

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Also Known As

AWS Auto-Scaling

Geneos

Overview

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ITRS Geneos is a real-time monitoring tool designed for managing increasingly complex, hybrid and interconnected IT estates.

Built with financial services and trading organisations in mind, it collects a wide range of data relating to server performance, infrastructure, trading, connectivity and applications, and analyses it to provide relevant information and alerts in real time.

Geneos can give full stack visibility across highly dynamic environments and presents all the information through a single pane of glass and its configurable and customisable dashboards provide end-to-end visibility to both technical and business users.

For more information, please visit https://www.itrsgroup.com/products/geneos

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

ITRS Geneos is used by over 170 financial institutions, including JPMorgan, HSBC, RBS, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Clients range from investment banks to exchanges and brokers.

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