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ITRS Geneos vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

The compared ITRS and Splunk solutions aren't in the same category. ITRS is ranked #48 in APM , with an average rating of 5.0, and holds a 1.0% mindshare in the category. Splunk is ranked #1 in SIEM , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of ITRS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Splunk users who would recommend it.
ITRS Geneos
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96% willing to recommend
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93% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between ITRS Geneos and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos
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), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (50th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
386
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. ITRS Geneos is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, down 1.3% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 7.0% mindshare, down 9.2% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ITRS Geneos1.0%
Dynatrace5.6%
Datadog4.9%
Other88.5%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Security7.0%
IBM Security QRadar5.2%
Wazuh5.1%
Other82.7%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Sanket - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Sathis-Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sathis-Kumar
Senior Manager at Bank of America
Helps us detect cyber threats quickly and integrate multiple feeds effectively
Overall, the product is good, but when it comes to some infrastructure issues, we have to dig into more logs. There is no straightforward indication of an issue. Health check kind of dashboards are not available. More AI would help us, and more optimization, since security products run more queries. The AI module could suggest solutions, optimizing queries or workload balancing. If the product itself advises on running queries during peak times, it would be similar to what ChatGPT currently offers. We see quite a few issues on stability. Even last week, we faced something, and identifying bottlenecks is not easy. We need more SMEs, and there is no mechanism to tell us about indexer or search head issues. Self-monitoring dashboards could be beneficial. The technical support still requires more improvement. Often, primary support takes a lot of time and forwards most solutions to the engineering side. The primary support team has very limited knowledge to provide.
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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

"One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support."
"It is the most adaptable product so you should go-ahead and use it."
"It's catching things that are going wrong before they become catastrophic, in most cases."
"The confidence of our users has greatly improved because of our ability to react much faster."
"Real-time log monitoring with desktop alerts is valuable as it tells us immediately when there is an issue."
"It has helped us re-define the Monitoring operating model which in turn has made support teams more efficient by using features like commented snoozing on various levels, use of knowledgebase articles associated with each alert cell, metric logging for capacity monitoring etc."
"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"
"It's a great and powerful tool."
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"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."
"I would assess the stability and reliability of Splunk Enterprise Security as good, as I have not had any issues with it."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a huge value-add to us because I can confirm that our security team treats it as a normal component of their daily operations."
"The best features would have to be the ability to ingest any data and display it in a way that anyone can understand."
"The dashboards, indexing speed, correlations, and machine learning are advantages of Splunk Enterprise Security; even though other competitors offer the same features, the efficiency of Splunk Enterprise Security is the best."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a valuable tool that allows us to monitor data from the APS daily."
"The Splunk queries are valuable."
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Cons

"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"The deployment method for upgrading is a bit tricky. It takes a little bit of manual effort."
"I would really like to see something from the Geneos side to set up automated reporting from ITRS."
"Sometimes there were issues with the database. If the database logging was high then the gateway would be slow."
"Some aspects of dashboarding are very proprietary and it makes it difficult, at times, to replicate your work easily."
"At the moment Geneos is excellent and handling real time monitoring, however not great at doing historical reporting."
"Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities."
"Sometimes, if there is a lot of data coming onto the servers, we have observed a little bit of slowness on the gateway servers which are doing the ITRS dashboard monitoring."
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"The problem with the product is that the price of Splunk is very high."
"Its reporting can be improved. That's the only complaint I have heard. I don't need the reporting part, but I know that other people in the organization need it."
"This solution could be improved by better pricing in general and by easier installation."
"I'd like a dashboard that allows me to connect elements through drag-and-drop functionality."
"In my opinion, it is too expensive for our projects."
"Security administration and user access control is pretty basic. The user access control could be much more granular, so that the admins can control r/w/x access for specific features of the product like dashboards, etc."
"It needs to improve the way to install third-party apps and enable installation without logging into splunk.com."
"Splunk should have more regional data centers in the Middle East."
More Splunk Enterprise Security cons
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 think that most of the monitoring solutions are expensive."
"It's a yearly subscription."
"I would highly recommend anyone evaluating this option to download the free trial which allows for the ingestion of 500MB of data per day in order to get a feel for what Splunk does at its core. It will get pricey once your ingestion rates start to sky rocket, but I would consider it expensive given the amount of information that it allows you to analyze and react on straight out-of-the-box."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is not a cheap product, but I think it is worth every dollar that you pay."
"I assume that the pricing is reasonable, because if it was too costly, there are other alternatives."
"Pricing is pretty fair."
"I think that most of the log analytics solutions are expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it."
"The price of Splunk is too high for our market."
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Comparison Review

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Vinod Shankar
Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 26, 2015
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We at Infosecnirvana.com have done several posts on SIEM. After the Dummies Guide on SIEM, we are following it up with a SIEM Product Comparison – 101 deck. So, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think by posting your comments below. The key products compared here are…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
65%
Computer Software Company
5%
Construction Company
4%
Outsourcing Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
5%
 

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 Business116
Midsize Enterprise50
Large Enterprise269
 

Questions from the Community

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What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
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How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
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ITRS Geneos
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Also Known As

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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.

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Splunk Enterprise Security delivers powerful log management, rapid searches, and intuitive dashboards, enhancing real-time analytics and security measures. Its advanced machine learning and wide system compatibility streamline threat detection and incident response across diverse IT environments.

Splunk Enterprise Security stands out in security operations with robust features like comprehensive threat intelligence and seamless data integration. Its real-time analytics and customizable queries enable proactive threat analysis and efficient incident response. Integration with multiple third-party feeds allows detailed threat correlation and streamlined data visualization. Users find the intuitive UI and broad compatibility support efficient threat detection while reducing false positives. Despite its strengths, areas such as visualization capabilities and integration processes with cloud environments need enhancement. Users face a high learning curve, and improvements in automation, AI, documentation, and training are desired to maximize its potential.

What Are the Key Features of Splunk Enterprise Security?
  • Log Management: Efficiently manages and organizes a vast amount of logs for better data handling.
  • Rapid Data Search: Quickly retrieves relevant data for fast decision-making.
  • Flexible Dashboards: Customizable dashboards provide clear data visualization.
  • Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Offers detailed insights to preemptively defend against threats.
  • Real-Time Analytics: Analyzes data in real-time to enhance response times.
  • Integration with Third-Party Feeds: Streamlines information flow from multiple sources.
What Benefits Should Users Investigate in Reviews?
  • Efficient Incident Response: Enhances the ability to respond promptly to threats.
  • False Positive Reduction: Minimizes incorrect threat alarms, making monitoring more efficient.
  • Threat Detection Speed: Accelerates the identification and evaluation of security threats.
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Potential savings through better licensing options and operational efficiency.
  • User Adaptability: Enhancements in documentation and training resources aid in overcoming the learning curve.

In specific industries like finance and healthcare, Splunk Enterprise Security is instrumental for log aggregation, SIEM functionalities, and compliance monitoring. Companies leverage its capabilities for proactive threat analysis and response, ensuring comprehensive security monitoring and integration with various tools for heightened operational intelligence.

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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.
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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