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ITRS Geneos vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
50th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (48th), Network Monitoring Software (74th)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (9th), AIOps (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.3%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management1.3%
ITRS Geneos0.9%
Other97.8%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2127225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Does real-time monitoring, prevents failures, and has a reasonable price
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. It's built like proprietary software. I can't expose the data to ITRS, and similarly, ITRS can't expose the data to the outside world. They have created a boundary. It's a bit binding solution. In the modern world, people like to be able to expose the data to do whatever they want. They can query the data, send it, or pull it. ITRS needs to provide more in terms of the API offering. They have documentation, but they can improve the documentation and provide videos to show how to do monitoring configuration or deployment.
reviewer2755671 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"As a company looking to onboard, its capacity to monitor just about anything from Unix log files and processes to database memory, and even run queries and provide results, means it can be used as a one stop shop for all your monitoring needs if you understand how to utilise it to its fullest extent."
"The tool is highly customizable and can be tailored to your requirements."
"Our support team can monitor our applications and servers easily and we were able to reduce the time in finding errors and providing a solution."
"The ITRS central Help Desk is absolutely awesome."
"Complete end-to-end monitoring of apps and infrastructure with key performance metrics to identify and reduce transaction latencies."
"It's definitely the best solution that I've used, as far as real-time monitoring goes."
"It is the most adaptable product so you should go-ahead and use it."
"It's also easy to implement. The implementation of Geneos is very easy and interesting. It's not complicated. It's very quick to implement. The installation is very easy. There are many topics about ITRS Geneos that explain more about the features of the function of Geneos."
"Before that, if a switch went down, we'd get 600 tickets; now, we get only one."
"The main and best thing about ServiceNow IT Operations Management is that it helps to organize user management tickets in an organized form."
"We use this solution primarily for event management, aggregation, correlation, and analytics, and it has moved from simple correlation to AIOps and helps us and our customers move towards AIOps."
"It includes a valuable feature called Discovery, that aids in application portfolio management, enabling visibility into IT infrastructure from top to bottom."
"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."
"Feature-wise, it is a very good tool, especially when it comes to upgrades. Upgrades are seamless. You will not even notice an upgrade is happening."
"I like the tool's discovery feature."
"Feature-wise, it is a very good tool, especially when it comes to upgrades; upgrades are seamless—you will not even notice an upgrade is happening, and mostly all these upgrades happen after office hours, making it seamless."
 

Cons

"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."
"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer."
"Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos."
"There is are issues with the compatibility of plugins with AIX servers."
"Backward compatibility with deprecated features and in system documentation on what configuration areas are needed to be updated."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"As far as I know, ITRS does not have integration with any version control system."
"The ITA, the post-incident analytics, could be improved."
"The service discovery tool should include HR automations that automatically remove an employee who is leaving."
"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 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."
"The setup and deployment could be simplified, and the pricing could improve."
"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."
"There are some limitations with Discovery; some areas are not available in the installation. I would like the solution to be able to discover more devices. That will remove the need to have multiple tools."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is very expensive. The list price is around $40 per node per month for the high-end, all-inclusive version."
"The initial setup phase was hard and could be made easier."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."
"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."
"It has different subscription models."
"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."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."
"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."
"The solution offers yearly licenses and a subscription model for add-on features."
"The solution is costly compared to the products offered by its competitors."
"I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
67%
Computer Software Company
6%
Construction Company
3%
Outsourcing Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise39
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise27
 

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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
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 ...
 

Also Known As

Geneos
ServiceNow ITOM
 

Overview

 

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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