ITRS Geneos vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

ITRS and ServiceNow are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ITRS is ranked #51, while ServiceNow is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2. ITRS holds a 1.0% mindshare in IM, compared to ServiceNow’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of ServiceNow users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

ITRS Geneos and ServiceNow IT Operations Management compete in IT monitoring and operations management. ServiceNow seems to have the upper hand with its broader operational insights and integration options.

Features: ITRS Geneos offers real-time customizable monitoring with alert automation, reporting, and visualization tools that suit high-frequency data environments. It is known for its fast-response monitoring capabilities. ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides service mapping, event management, and operational intelligence, focusing on workflow streamlining and process automation. It supports extensive integration options.

Room for Improvement: ITRS Geneos could enhance historical logging, dashboard visualization, and middleware integration. Its lack of cloud-native capabilities is a significant drawback. ServiceNow IT Operations Management could improve its pricing flexibility, depth in service discovery, and service mapping ease. Enhancements in integration with other tools and advancements in automation and AI are also needed.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ITRS Geneos operates mainly on-premises, limiting flexibility for cloud-native workflows but offers responsive customer support. ServiceNow IT Operations Management supports a wider range of deployment options including public, hybrid, and private clouds, and provides good technical support within existing ecosystems, though setup complexity can be an issue.

Pricing and ROI: Both ITRS Geneos and ServiceNow IT Operations Management are expensive but justify costs with unique features. ITRS Geneos is advantageous for large institutions with extensive monitoring needs due to its pricing flexibility. ServiceNow offers a competitive all-in-one platform though additional features can be costly. Both products deliver good ROI through process improvements and reduced incident response times.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

51st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (48th), Network Monitoring Software (73rd)

ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (9th), AIOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.0%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.2%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management	1.2%
ITRS Geneos	1.0%
Other	97.8%

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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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reviewer2755671

Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Significant enhancement in operations with powerful discovery and analytics, yet pricing structure poses challenges

ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides out-of-the-box dashboards. Along with the dashboard, it also provides the Operations Workspace, which is very useful for operations teams. There is a functionality called Performance Analytics, which we are also using to develop some dashboards for the senior leadership and operations team where they can perform trend analysis of alerts and events happening across the infrastructure and application landscape. These dashboards are really useful here. ServiceNow IT Operations Management's biggest plus point is that it is a platform. ITOM is just one module that ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers, but they provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.

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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 Netprobe is so lightweight compared to the agents that most monitoring tools use. It's really superior to the competition. The agent that is used by almost every competitive tool takes a lot more system resources. It's slower and it requires a greater effort and more compromises in terms of security to install on the monitored servers. With Geneos, because it lives outside the code, it is far easier and far less taxing on the monitored systems."

"Complete end-to-end monitoring of apps and infrastructure with key performance metrics to identify and reduce transaction latencies."

"The built-in plug-ins allow administrators to easily configure monitoring components for market data systems such as Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and SRLabs Wombat (formerly NYSE)."

"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."

"This is the most amazing monitoring tool I've ever worked with, because it allows you to monitor a lot of things and also to address the issue and assign it to someone so everyone will know it's being investigated."

"The result was a similar metrics monitored at a much better frequency, with a more stable product and a much better user interface."

"It is the most adaptable product so you should go-ahead and use it."

"In my experience, being able to monitor our databases is a valuable feature as we can create our own queries and aren't reliant on the in-built ones."

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"It is flexible. You can tune it, more or less, as you want."

"It is emerging as a holistic solution for enterprise service management."

"It helps streamline management and processes."

"It is easy to understand and easy to use, and it has a lot of documentation; you can find a lot of help online, which helps me in finding what I need in a rapid way, with videos on YouTube channels and a lot of information in the online community."

"The auto remediation feature has been most valuable. They have also introduced an AOP feature of ServiceNow that we are keen to explore."

"The initial setup is very straightforward. A person just needs to join a team to access the network and that's all."

"It provided out-of-the-box integrations, requiring only minimal effort, typically a couple of days, to massage those systems into a seamless operation."

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a stable product."

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Cons

"Some aspects of dashboarding are very proprietary and it makes it difficult, at times, to replicate your work easily."

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

"I would really like to see something from the Geneos side to set up automated reporting from ITRS."

"As far as I know, ITRS does not have integration with any version control system."

"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."

"It would be good if there were documentation on the ITRS website such as tutorials or plugins which are available to download."

"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."

"I would rate technical support 7/10. It's self-explaining and the support is limited."

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"The most complaints we have received from our clients are the solution's discovery aspect. I've heard a few concerns from the customers where we have to integrate with a third-party tool to make a full-fledged discovery along with ServiceNow. ServiceNow alone does not do the total capacity of the discovery. The discovery portion of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not in-depth as what the customers are looking for. The information that it gathers from the assets is a little more limited than what other tools provide."

"The CMDB part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a little bit too complicated, and it is a bit slow at our company."

"It should have better integrations with other solutions."

"The pattern part can be improved. Patterns are used in the Discovery feature."

"The vendor support rates between five to six because it takes a lot of time to get issues resolved, whether minor or major. For minor issues, the team takes a month's time to provide a fix."

"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."

"My managers would say that the price is too high. We wanted to also have the visibility version of it, but it's too expensive for us. Going for visibility would have doubled up the price."

"The solution's licensing model is a bit complicated. It should be simple and easy for people to understand."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is reasonable. It isn't too expensive, and it isn't too cheap, but it also depends on a company's volume and negotiation."

"ITRS Geneos is not a cheap tool. It's a moderate price for the banking industry. The reason we are not able to add the ITRS monitoring tool for the non-banking industries, and non-finance industries, is that the pricing is too high."

"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."

"The licensing cost may seem expensive upfront. However, the service is outstanding, the tool does things that no other tools can do, and the customizability more than makes up for the cost of licensing."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper."

"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."

"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a costly solution. I'd rate the price at ten, on a scale from one to ten with one being the lowest and ten being the highest price. Some clients do have a problem with the price, but most find that the solution is worth the cost."

"The price of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is expensive."

"We obtained discovery licenses at about seven dollars Australian per unit, which we found to be reasonable and competitive."

"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."

"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

64%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	29

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It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.

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We don't use the orchestration part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management here. The CMDB part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a little bit too complicated, and it is a bit slow at our co...

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We are customers of ServiceNow IT Operations Management, using it for the ticketing systems and user management and change management. Change management and user management are the major use cases ...

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Also Known As

Geneos

ServiceNow ITOM

Overview

ITRS Geneos offers a customizable platform for real-time monitoring with minimal system impact, facilitating insights across multiple platforms. Known for its scalability, it efficiently integrates with other tools, supporting industries with its proactive monitoring capabilities.

ITRS Geneos allows users to effectively manage financial services infrastructure by monitoring trading systems, treasury management, and FX operations. It provides real-time dashboards to track server uptime, application performance, and health metrics. Users benefit from its enterprise-wide data aggregation, alerting features, and script adaptability while needing improvement in cloud monitoring and AI-based predictive functionalities. The tool's setup requires some expertise, suggesting a need for more intuitive solutions.

What are the most important features of ITRS Geneos?

Customizable Dashboards: Enables real-time analytics across platforms.
Lightweight Netprobe: Facilitates efficient data aggregation with minimal impact.
Plugin Support: Ensures extensive compatibility and integration.
Proactive Monitoring: Allows for early issue detection and resolution.
Script Adaptability: Supports tailored solutions for specific requirements.

What benefits and ROI should be considered?

Minimized Manual Intervention: Automation features reduce manual tasks.
Scalability: Easily accommodates growing enterprise needs.
Integration Capabilities: Works seamlessly with existing tools.
Insightful Dashboards: Provides actionable metrics for decision making.

ITRS Geneos is prominently utilized in financial sectors. Banks and financial institutions leverage its capabilities to monitor infrastructure and application performance, optimizing trading systems and FX operations. It builds comprehensive dashboards, offering valuable insights into server health, application logs, and network performance, contributing significantly to operational efficiency.

ITRS

ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers a scalable platform for managing IT infrastructure with features like discovery, dashboards, and service mapping. Ideal for incident, change, and problem management, it enhances operational efficiency and reduces IT service downtime.

ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides comprehensive solutions for consolidating events, automating workflows, and monitoring IT systems. Users utilize it for managing ticketing systems and conducting impact analysis through service mapping. The platform supports integrations with other modules, boosting efficiency with its intuitive interface. While highly functional, improvements in interface design and pricing are necessary, especially in integration with non-IP devices and cloud providers. Enhanced AI, machine learning, and discovery and monitoring functions are also needed.

What are the most important features?

Discovery: Automatically detects and maps IT infrastructure components.
Dashboard: Offers out-of-the-box reports through a user-friendly interface.
Service Mapping: Aids in assessing the impact of IT changes.
Event Management: Consolidates events for better management.
Orchestration: Streamlines automation processes to optimize workflows.

What benefits or ROI should be expected?

Scalability: Supports dynamic growth in IT operations.
Enhanced Efficiency: Improves workflow automation and event management.
Reduced Downtime: Minimizes service interruptions to maintain productivity.
Cost Reduction: Lowers operational costs by optimizing resources.

IT Operations Management by ServiceNow is widely implemented across industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing to optimize IT processes, enhance monitoring, and streamline infrastructure management. It is particularly effective in automating workflows and improving service reliability.

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Sample Customers

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.

servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec

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