ITRS Geneos vs Instana Dynamic APM comparison

Instana and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Instana is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0, while ITRS is ranked #35 with an average rating of 5.0. Instana holds a 1.1% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Instana 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 Instana Dynamic APM compete in the application performance management category. Instana seems to have the upper hand with its automation and real-time insights.

Features: ITRS Geneos users highlight extensive monitoring capabilities, customizable alerts, and detailed monitoring. Instana Dynamic APM users recognize automatic discovery, root-cause analysis, and real-time updates.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos needs better integration with modern technologies, enhanced scalability, and faster implementation of new features. Instana Dynamic APM should improve support for legacy systems, provide more detailed documentation, and simplify its user interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos has straightforward deployment but a steep learning curve, with responsive customer service. Instana Dynamic APM is known for easy and fast deployment with pre-configured agents, though its customer service needs improvement.

Pricing and ROI: ITRS Geneos has high setup costs but achieves significant ROI through comprehensive monitoring. Instana Dynamic APM's pricing is justified by advanced features and automatic functionalities, leading to a justifiable ROI despite higher costs.

To learn more, read our detailed ITRS Geneos vs. Instana Dynamic APM Report (Updated: February 2026).

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ITRS Geneos vs. Instana Dynamic APM

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Categories and Ranking

Instana Dynamic APM

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

31st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

35th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (64th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (44th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Instana Dynamic APM is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.0%, 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 (%)
Instana Dynamic APM	1.1%
ITRS Geneos	1.0%
Other	97.9%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Reviewer345224

Sr. Devops Engineer at Techsign

Works efficiently for setting monitoring alerts and has an easy installation process

Instana proved critical in a troubleshooting scenario where our container faced issues. We were unable to receive requests from other servers. We identified a specific request type causing a surge in resource consumption, leading to the container's stack. Instana helped us with real-time monitoring and resolving the issue. It provides valuable features for our day-to-day operations. We can get different types of records or responses. It is user-friendly in terms of setting alerts. Additionally, we can easily arrange resources and the number of ports for performance monitoring. I utilized Jenkins for integration with the CI/CD pipeline. I rate the product an eight out of ten.

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DeepakR

Site Reliability Engineer(Observability) at Sapiens

If one server fails, the agent will automatically be reinstalled

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 if there's a 90% error. You need to check which process is consuming more CPU and determine the root cause for yourself. You need to troubleshoot it manually. This legacy system could introduce predictive analysis and root cause identification. They are reluctant to switch to newer solutions, which may require writing queries to fetch data. Manually logging into servers, checking CPU usage, identifying processes, and determining root causes is time-consuming. Once the root cause is identified, the issue can be resolved efficiently. The manual troubleshooting process is time-consuming. The content is not openly available in the market. If you search for it somewhere, it is not readily accessible. If you want to try it out, no trial version is available. Therefore, it will be challenging to learn. Loading ITRS is difficult, as you need to purchase it first. Secondly, only a few people are knowledgeable about ITRS in the market, making it challenging to find resources. Thirdly, the documentation must be well-documented, making finding content or training material hard. The UI also needs to be updated, which adds to the difficulty.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Sometimes it's able to provide a proper RCA on its own. It's able to correlate different events that occurred and that becomes like an RCA in itself."

"It's great for monitoring services and applications."

"With auto-discovery, we didn't need to consider much. We just installed the agent on the host and it was able to detect everything from the host level up to the service level, for whatever stack was installed, and that includes containers and dockers."

"We can easily perform root cause analysis using the tool."

"The overall capabilities are the most valuable."

"It is a stable solution."

"With Instana, the interface and the UI are very simple to use."

"Instana is very fast to implement and deploy because the dashboards are automated and don't need configuration."

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

"It's a very powerful application monitoring tool across the industry. Many free, open-source tools are available. There are also paid tools, but ITRS Geneos is a real-time application monitoring tool where the user can monitor, self-configure, and manage alerts through their console."

"Custom script toolkits"

"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"

"The flexibility of the product is most valuable. It is highly customizable. If you put your mind to it and think of something you could do, there's a good possibility you can get it integrated within the console, if it's not readily available. The simplicity or ease of customization has been valuable."

"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."

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Cons

"They could improve the product’s dashboards and provide more dashboard options."

"The solution's monitoring is pretty weak and should be improved."

"I think that Instana should improve the university and the certification process, so the users can find experts in Instana with their certification module process."

"Maybe log monitoring could be better."

"We should be able to go back to scenarios during or before the issue. There should be something like a history playback. Such a feature or functionality would be good."

"Sometimes, the issue arises from user changes, such as adjusting firewall settings without proper consideration, leading to compatibility issues within the network monitoring."

"The App Connect middleware does not integrate with or show corresponding sub nodes."

"We'd always like to see additional functionalities."

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"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."

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

"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."

"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."

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

"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."

"They have the Webslinger solution where you can see when something is alerting. It's a little bit cumbersome."

"For the last year or two, I've been asking the vendor about the mobile app. This is something that probably everyone asks when they see the tool and they see how powerful it is. If there is any mobile app for this or if there is any way this tool can be more easily accessible other than having a big client installed, it would be great. I know you can build dashboards, et cetera, but there is no quick and easy way. I should be able to download an app, log in, and see my status. That will put this product above everything else out there. I believe it's on their roadmap."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"Pricing is quite competitive. Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic were all several times more expensive than Instana, both the on-prem and the SaaS versions. Price-wise they are a lot more competitive than anyone else out there."

"Instana Dynamic APM is more affordable for small and medium-sized companies compared to other vendors."

"The pricing is $1,200 per year which is a bit high compared to other vendors."

"It's reasonably priced and manageable, especially for individuals who grasp the significance of application monitoring."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."

"Its pricing isn't a big pain point. Its pricing seems to be better than some of the other competing products in the market, but they also have some of the features and functionalities that are better than Instana."

"When I first came in, their pricing was very high. ITRS had a high expectation of what their price should be based on perceived value. I think they have been realizing, more recently, that there are other competitors, so their pricing is a lot better. Licensing for on-premise is okay, however I feel there is quite some work to be done for cloud and containers. We're still working with them to try and work out what that pricing should look like."

"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."

"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."

"The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."

"Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

69%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	5

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

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Instana Dynamic APM?

The platform’s most valuable feature is the ability to monitor the performance of containers for request and response analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Instana Dynamic APM?

I rate the pricing a seven out of ten. There are no additional costs associated with the product.

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What needs improvement with Instana Dynamic APM?

Sometimes, the issue arises from user changes, such as adjusting firewall settings without proper consideration, leading to compatibility issues within the network monitoring.

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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?

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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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Overview

Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure, and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process, and updates application dependency maps in real-time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation, and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline. Learn more at https://instana.com.

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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

Daxko Lifts Fitness Studios Through COVID Regulations with Quick Engineering PivotsAltissia Meets SLAs to Support Student DeadlinesImmocloud Unlocks Observability to Modernize Real EstateEnento Group Boosts Service Reliability with Real-Time Visibility into Application Performance Instana’s Observability for Amazon EKS Helps Yara Deliver Digital Farming Solutions

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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