Catchpoint vs ITRS Geneos comparison

Catchpoint and ITRS are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.0, while ITRS is ranked #34 with an average rating of 5.0. Catchpoint holds a 0.8% mindshare in APM, compared to ITRS’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Catchpoint and ITRS Geneos are top contenders in the performance monitoring category. While Catchpoint excels in various aspects, ITRS Geneos is deemed more robust due to its extensive feature set.

Features: Catchpoint's valuable features include real-time performance monitoring, comprehensive synthetic testing, and a user-friendly interface. ITRS Geneos offers powerful analytics, in-depth infrastructure monitoring, and a detailed analytics suite, providing superior feature depth.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint could enhance its alerting system, improve reporting capabilities, and offer better integration with other platforms. ITRS Geneos users recommend simplifying the configuration process, improving integration with other platforms, and making the user interface more intuitive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint is praised for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. ITRS Geneos has a steeper learning curve but is supported by knowledgeable customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint users appreciate the transparent pricing model and report satisfactory ROI. ITRS Geneos users find it more expensive, but its advanced features justify the higher cost.

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

40th

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

57th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (11th)

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

34th

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

64th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.8%, up from 0.4% 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 Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ITRS Geneos	1.0%
Catchpoint	0.8%
Other	98.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Henry Mike

Senior Network Engineer at AT&T

Monitoring has delivered proactive issue detection and improves user experience across our apps

The best features Catchpoint offers are Catchpoint Synthetics, Catchpoint API test, Catchpoint Dashboard, and Catchpoint UI. I would like to add that Catchpoint UI is very user-friendly and with a basic introduction, anyone can just get started. When we talk about Catchpoint Dashboard, this is our one-stop shop for all our monitors. It has multiple widgets that display various application performance metrics. We use this feature immensely and it is of great value to our business. When it comes to Catchpoint Synthetics, it enables us to create our synthetic monitoring using Catchpoint. Creating the Synthetics monitors is easy and requires basic knowledge of Selenium and JavaScript. It also allows us to run the test from external, which is the backbone, and internal enterprise nodes. Additionally, Catchpoint provides detailed insights of each request that is involved in the application flow, which helps us in addressing the issue at the request level. With the help of Catchpoint, we are able to address issues before our customers. Our triage time has reduced. We are able to reduce outages and unwanted user incidents. We are able to get to the root cause of the issue efficiently post-implementing Catchpoint 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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Pros

"The best feature in Catchpoint is the alert or the notification my company gets frequently, in particular, every five minutes. It's the notification you get whenever a respective market has an issue. There's also a dashboard in Catchpoint that shows the markets you support, so all the markets will be highlighted graphically in the dashboard whenever there's downtime that could affect you. If there's no issue for a specific market, it will be in green, so in this way, anybody would be able to understand which market has issues and which market has no issues through Catchpoint. The tool is very useful for monitoring activities."

"During business hours, it has worked absolutely fine without any issues."

"We really need the API monitoring, as well as client side session monitoring, the global synthetic monitoring, to track the availability of the systems from the customer side."

"Catchpoint has everything you could want in a synthetic tool, and many things that you didn't know you wanted but you are ecstatic to have."

"Catchpoint is very flexible and also provides logs for troubleshooting purposes. It helps us fix issues within the SLAs signed with the end users. The tool is easy to learn."

"The drill-down feature of this product was very good. It allowed us to identify the exact page or area of the site that was causing our customers an issue."

"One of the features, the scatter plot, is very useful. It shows red dots wherever there are issues."

"This is the most complete monitoring solution that any business can use to better their internet performance, which is quite simple to configure individual monitors for every team member."

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

"It allowed us to deal with incidents in real time, reducing the impact on the business by allowing them to keep trading, therefore not losing money."

"It's a very effective and productive tool, and avoids any major incidents."

"One of the best aspects of Geneos is that it has a broad scope and can cover a lot of use cases. You can write your own scripts to monitor really specific things. And the rules that you can put in place can be quite complex for the alerts."

"Complete end-to-end monitoring of apps and infrastructure with key performance metrics to identify and reduce transaction latencies."

"The built-in plug-ins allow administrators to easily configure monitoring components for market data systems such as Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and SRLabs Wombat (formerly NYSE)."

"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."

"I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option."

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Cons

"Trending needs improvement. Currently, out-of-the-box, they provide only seven days availability. So, we have to do queries and we have to go into a separate analysis module, we have to run lot of queries to long-term trends."

"It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow."

"The old user version was better, it was more user-friendly."

"Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring."

"The only thing that occasionally bugs me about Catchpoint is some aspects of the UI."

"A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature. My company receives all the alerts and notifications it needs, but the page doesn't update automatically. You need to manually refresh the page, so every five minutes you need to refresh it to see the most updated information. If there's an automated page refresh feature, that would help my company. It's a feature that Grafana has. The page auto-refreshes in Grafana, so you don't have to manually refresh the page. If that feature is implemented in Catchpoint, it'll be useful for the users. Another area for improvement in the tool is you have to do a manual task, for example, when you have a notification for a market, you get a zip code that the user could have entered, but if the zip code is incorrect, you have to manually go into Catchpoint and update that parameter, so that manual step is another area in the tool that needs improvement."

"As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues."

"if we need to do performance analysis, we have to click too many times. For example, if there is an issue that is caught by Catchpoint, we need to understand what the error is and at which step it failed, or which transaction that is impacted. To drill down, we have to click too many things to get the answer."

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"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."

"The main feature that needs work is the Dashboard designer. Currently we have to export metrics data in real-time into some other visualization tools in order to get better picture and have a bit more functional dashboard."

"Technically, I believe the dashboard functionality can be more configurable as some shapes are very limited with what they can do."

"Currently the dashboard does not have the capability of providing different status levels, and this needs to be updated."

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

"I believe the product has to improve on reporting."

"I think there's a very steep learning curve with the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."

"The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to the last tool we were using."

"In terms of licensing fees, I believe they were slightly higher."

"The pricing is based on consumption and works on a point scale. For example, let's say I want to look at www.google.com, and I'm going to test it to see if it's there. It will bring back all this data that tells me how long it took to connect and how long it took to get the first byte. It will list all the resources on the page, showing that they all work and there are no broken links. It brings that data back. That test has an assigned point value depending on what you decide to extract from that test. If all I do is check to see whether it's available, it might be one point. I don't know the exact point values off-hand. This is just an example."

"Pricing and licensing is based on the requirements."

"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 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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Retailer

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

69%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	12

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

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Catchpoint?

Catchpoint is very flexible and also provides logs for troubleshooting purposes. It helps us fix issues within the SLAs signed with the end users. The tool is easy to learn.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the cost was very cost-effective and affordable.

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

Catchpoint can be improved as it has a complex setup and configuration, and dashboard customization and UX should be improved.

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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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Overview

Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs, and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.

Learn more at: https://www.catchpoint.com/

Catchpoint

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

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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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