ITRS Geneos vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

ITRS and ServiceNow are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. ITRS is ranked #45 with an average rating of 5.0, while ServiceNow is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2. ITRS holds a 0.9% mindshare in IM, compared to ServiceNow’s 1.4% 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

45th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (34th), Network Monitoring Software (64th)

ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (11th), AIOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.9%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.4%, 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	1.4%
ITRS Geneos	0.9%
Other	97.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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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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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 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 ability to logically normalize data gathered from multiple types of sources via pre-built plugins is extremely powerful. This functionality, coupled with the ability to import custom data via the Toolkit plugin allows Geneos to be leveraged to monitor every system in the enterprise."

"This solution has helped provide relief to existing Level 2 teams, allowing them to focus efforts on in-depth problem analysis."

"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."

"The NetProbe carries over 100 samplers which are capable of monitoring hardware, OS, and the application layer."

"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."

"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's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play."

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"The solution is very capable and user friendly."

"The most important features of ServiceNow IT Operations Management are the discovery service mapping and orchestration."

"I like the solution due to the fact that it's scalable."

"Provides everything in one solution."

"The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication."

"It is a product that is familiar for a lot of users."

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is beneficial for the discovery of all CIs in our environment."

"I consider the stability to be very high, rating it ten out of ten."

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Cons

"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."

"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"For the solution to stay relevant in the cloud-based monitoring environment Geneos needs more plug-ins with more features. Instead of offering clients workarounds, the solution should have a cloud-based out-of-the-box version."

"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."

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"Enhancing automation-related solutions, such as Wi-Fi, porting, machinery, and product automation would help to achieve better operational outcomes."

"There are not enough apps in the app store to expand functionality. There should be more made available."

"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."

"If you are new to using the solution, you will find the setup complex."

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

"Service mapping is pretty limited."

"ServiceNow's pricing is expensive. A more streamlined configuration process tailored to use cases and industry would be beneficial."

"The pattern part can be improved. Patterns are used in the Discovery feature. Although it is easy to create new patterns and modify the existing ones, it would be better if this solution can have more out-of-the-box patterns. In terms of new features, they can include artificial intelligence, something like machine learning."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Based on feedback from colleagues and friends working in the financial sector, Geneos is relatively costly. Many companies have been switching from Geneos to Dynatrace, Sysdig, or other monitoring tools in the past two years because of the price."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

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

"The solution is costly compared to the products offered by its competitors."

"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."

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

"It has different subscription models."

"This solution offers good value but comes at a very high premium. Pricing could be reduced by 10 to 20%."

"My customers pay for the ServiceNow IT Operations Management license annually. I'd rate the pricing based on value. ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a premium product as it has better features than competitors."

"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

68%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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	5
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?

From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management portion, where I can actively add something to the database.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?

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

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What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?

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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Also Known As

Geneos

ServiceNow ITOM

Overview

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

ITRS

ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) is a cloud management and infrastructure tool that facilitates the administrative and development process of creating, planning, and operating digital services, technology, application requirements, and components for organizations. Service Now ensures effectiveness, performance, and availability throughout an organization's processes and services.

ServiceNow ITOM will help organizations facilitate consistent policies with regard to deployment, support, and services to ensure trustworthiness and quality of service (QoS). ServiceNow ITOM will ensure that all applications, services, and infrastructure are consistently available and stable.

ServiceNow IT Operations Management Features

Help Desk: ServiceNow ITOM help desk enables IT and operations administrators to better communicate issues concerning managing data latencies, controlling the monitoring of user profiles, executing disaster recovery plans, and any other problematic incidents.
Device and server management: ServiceNow ITOM will ensure IT operations teams can better handle general maintenance, upgrading, and patching for server-related concerns. The solution will also help to maintain the health of organization devices such as laptops, phones, tablets, mobile devices, and desktops.
Infrastructure maintenance: ServiceNow ITOM helps organizations set up remote access networks, maintain network security, regulate communication with external servers and firewalls, and also monitor and manage internal telephone systems.

ServiceNow IT Operations Management Benefits

Improve DevOps: ServiceNow ITOM improves the ability to inspect microservices, which enables DevOps and SRE teams to improve incident response.
Improve data control: The solution will help to manage the entire digital lifecycle, and will also enhance the organization's configuration management database (CMDB) to enable a more robust data foundation.
Problem-solve: ITOM is able to proactively identify anomalies before they become issues/problems with tremendous accuracy. ITOM helps organizations minimize outages and reduce the negative impact to end users so that they do not experience any downtime or service degradations. ITOM will also use artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) along with machine learning (ML) to reduce the possibility of false positives, saving time and increasing productivity.
Automate workflows: ITOM offers a pre-designed workbook and no-code/low-code workflows to reduce redundant tasks and improve recovery times. ITOM provides intuitive workable processes to be shared easily with all teams throughout the organization.

ServiceNow ITOM enables organizations to become robust, strategic operations able to successfully anticipate issues before they have an impact on the organization. Organizations that use ServiceNOw ITOM will be able to easily automate workflows and improve how their IT teams communicate and work together to deliver successful outcomes and maintain productivity and profitability 24/7.

Reviews from Real Users

“With this solution, operational costs will be reduced. Your maintenance cost will be reduced when you use the item model. You will deliver a fast solution to the customers. If something happens on the server-side or router-side, it will be immediately caught. Efficiencies are improved. “ - Rupesh J., Solutions Architect at Globant

“It has been very useful for tracking. It has evolved a lot over time, and there is a single pane of glass where you can track and see everything.” - Uday T., Project Manager at MindTree

ServiceNow

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.

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