Alluvio AppResponse vs ITRS Geneos comparison

Riverbed and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Riverbed is ranked #47 with an average rating of 8.0, while ITRS is ranked #35 with an average rating of 5.0. Riverbed holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Riverbed users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Alluvio AppResponse and ITRS Geneos are two competing products in network and infrastructure monitoring. Alluvio AppResponse seems to have the upper hand in ease of use and customer support, while ITRS Geneos has superior features and customization options, making it preferred for advanced users.

What features are offered by Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to ITRS Geneos?

Alluvio AppResponse offers real-time network monitoring, detailed performance analytics, and a user-friendly interface. ITRS Geneos provides comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, extensive customization options, and advanced feature sets appealing to experienced users.

What areas of improvement can be found in Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to ITRS Geneos?

Alluvio AppResponse can improve its reporting capabilities, expand integration options, and add advanced features. ITRS Geneos needs to enhance simplicity, provide better technical documentation, and make usability enhancements.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to ITRS Geneos?

Alluvio AppResponse is noted for straightforward deployment and exceptional customer support. ITRS Geneos has a more complex deployment process requiring thorough planning and expertise, though their customer support is highly rated.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Alluvio AppResponse in comparison to ITRS Geneos?

Alluvio AppResponse is competitive in pricing, providing a good return on investment, especially for smaller enterprises. ITRS Geneos, although more expensive, is seen as worth the investment for advanced features and customization, indicating higher ROI for complex use cases.

To learn more, read our detailed Alluvio AppResponse vs. ITRS Geneos Report (Updated: February 2026).

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Alluvio AppResponse vs. ITRS Geneos

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio AppResponse

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

47th

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

55th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

35th

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

64th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (44th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Alluvio AppResponse is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 1.0%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ITRS Geneos	1.0%
Alluvio AppResponse	0.5%
Other	98.5%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Satyam Kumar

Senior Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Identifies and analyzes performance issues quickly using in-built AI and ML

With Alluvio AppResponse, there is an in-built analytical analysis with AI and ML, which identifies and provides data such as the number of TCP retransmits, web access time, total connection time out, total connections established, and server-side errors. The RTCC response time composition chart is crucial because it helps pinpoint the issue's origin, whether from the server, network, or application side. It's a superb product when compared to SolarWinds SAM, which is agent-based, while Alluvio AppResponse captures all traffic from the core switch.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Alluvio AppResponse is the actual response time for measuring performance."

"We really like the scalability capabilities."

"AppResponse is a total solution that gives you end-to-end visibility into applications at all levels, from Layer 1 to Layer 7. We can trace all those sections: physical, IP, transport, presentation, application, etc. It gives us the full picture."

"You need a packet capture device to perform any type of network monitoring. It helps ensure that network overloads don't happen with alerts allowing for proactive decisions."

"Riverbed's product is a superb product."

"When it comes to the ability to scale up the product, this is suitable for small medium and large environments,"

"Ability to see end to end user, application, server, and network response time and throughput data."

"I have found the AppResponse, which is a packet capture solution, very good. It gives you the ability to drill down back in time. You've got all the packets there. You can troubleshoot it later, not immediately. It's very interesting."

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"Tons of default modules which are available out of the box"

"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 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."

"The solution is used across the entire investment banking division, covering environments such as electronic trading, algo-trading, fixed income, FX, etc. It monitors that environment and enables a bank to significantly reduce down time. Although hard to measure, since implementation, we have probably seen some increased stability because of it and we have definitely seen teams a lot more aware of their environment. Consequently, we can be more proactive in challenging and improving previously undetected weaknesses."

"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."

"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."

"The ability to build integrations to tools that are not monitored out of the box is the most valuable feature."

"Ability to monitor logs for potential issues to prevent app outages before problems get a chance to arise. That's invaluable for our teams in a fast-paced trading environment."

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Cons

"Need to bring back the NetFlow module for AppResponse."

"The pricing is on the higher side of things. If they could lower it, that would be ideal."

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"If Alluvio AppResponse reduces its cost, it will be more beneficial for customers to monitor their application and network performance."

"They need to better integrate with products and solutions from different vendors."

"Integration between NPM and APM solutions would improve efficiency. There is no agent on the server site related to AppResponse."

"The recent changes in corporate structure may have caused some decrease in support quality."

"The initial setup is straightforward, but you have to know a little about the product. It's not for everybody to just plug and play. If you know how the solution is implemented then it is straightforward."

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"The dashboard feature is full of bugs. Grouping items results in a distorted dashboard."

"It needs to be easier to configure, especially with the JMX plugins."

"Mobile phone integration is probably not as rich as it could be."

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

"There is one drawback to using lightweight data collection: we lack the feature of observability based on time series, such as historical model data. This makes it difficult to view data in ITRS. ITRS needs to improve this feature."

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

"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."

"One thing that could be improved in terms of rapid scaling would be more ability to clone aspects of an implementation. It seems like there are opportunities in this area, where we have repetitive tasks to do when it comes to implementing things on new servers or on new gateways. It would be great if there was an easy way to clone something that had already been done."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is no more expensive than other products."

"The price is a little bit high, especially because we have to pay an import tax."

"It is costly for small and medium businesses."

"The licensing model is expensive compared to its competitors, but the service it gives to your business, and the data quality, means that it's worth it."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Performing Arts

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Media Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

69%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	10

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

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Also Known As

Riverbed AppResponse, OPNET SteelCentral AppResponse, ACE Live, OPNET, AppResponse Xpert

Geneos

Overview

Alluvio AppResponse provides fast packet capture and storage that feeds intelligent network and application analysis with fast troubleshooting workflows to speed problem diagnosis and resolution. AppResponse delivers full stack application analysis—from packets to web pages - enabling you observe all network and application interactions as they cross the wire, whether they are encrypted or not. Using powerful, flexible network and application analytics and workflows, AppResponse speeds problem diagnosis and resolution, helping you get to answers fast

Riverbed

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

Sample Customers

N11.com, OneMain Financial, China Bank, Halkbank, Kaust

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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