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

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

"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."

"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."

"Once set-up, Geneos proved to be a very powerful and versatile tool to real-time monitor our IT infrastructure and - most important for us - our critical applications and business processes."

"It's a great and powerful tool."

"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."

"The tool is highly customizable and can be tailored to your requirements."

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"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 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."

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management pays for itself because of how flexible it is, and it's a very strong tool."

"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."

"It is a market leader and is very implementation-friendly. Developers have a clear understanding of how the solution works, and it is mature enough to handle different client needs."

"The end-to-end ticketing process is most valuable in ServiceNow IT Operations Management because its notification feature is excellent in keeping all users informed on the next step compared to BMC. I also like that ServiceNow IT Operations Management is very user-friendly."

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

"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."

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Cons

"In some cases Netprobe can be unstable."

"There is a one-second ceiling on responses to rule breaches."

"A bit complex"

"The Geneos configuration has greatly improved since the nascent version 1.0 days, but still requires specialist knowledge and convoluted config debugging when something’s not monitoring as expected."

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

"Much of the reporting outside of the user interface is very basic and requires much customization to be useful."

"t needs to have better middleware integration for things such as application and Microsft SQL servers."

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

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"It should have better integrations with other solutions."

"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 discovery portion of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is not in-depth as what the customers are looking for, and the information that it gathers from the assets is a little more limited than what other tools provide."

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

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management could do a little bit better with integrations. Integrating ServiceNow IT Operations Management with CMDB processes needs a little more work."

"There is a slower learning curve associated with the tool's scripting part. It is also not cheap."

"It didn't provide as much value as we thought it would."

"ServiceNow could be more prescriptive on how customers can leverage some of the benefits."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"It is moderately expensive. The pricing itself and the licensing options are depending on the model and the customization."

"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."

"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."

"It has different subscription models."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

64%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

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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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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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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