ITRS Geneos vs Nmap comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Nmap and ITRS Geneos compete in the IT monitoring category. Nmap has the upper hand in network discovery and security auditing, while ITRS Geneos is superior for real-time IT infrastructure monitoring due to its data analysis capabilities.

Features: Nmap focuses on network scanning, offering host discovery, port scanning, and version detection. ITRS Geneos specializes in real-time performance monitoring, delivering insights into complex infrastructures, predictive analytics, and robust alerting systems.

Room for Improvement: Nmap could enhance user interface design, expand protocol support, and integrate more advanced data analytics features. ITRS Geneos might improve ease of setup, reduce licensing costs, and offer lighter weight monitoring for smaller environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nmap benefits from straightforward and simple deployment with minimal setup, while ITRS Geneos has a complex setup but compensates with extensive support and customization capabilities. ITRS Geneos's customer service provides significant assistance, especially in intricate environments.

Pricing and ROI: Nmap is cost-effective with its open-source model, offering high ROI due to low initial costs. ITRS Geneos has higher initial costs due to licensing, but achieves strong ROI through capabilities in performance optimization and downtime prevention.

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ITRS Geneos vs. Nmap

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ITRS Geneos

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

74th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (48th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (50th)

Nmap

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

16th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ITRS Geneos is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nmap is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nmap	0.8%
ITRS Geneos	0.6%
Other	98.6%

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Featured Reviews

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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Sai Aditya Panda

Student at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Penetration testing has become efficient as I identify open ports and security risks with confidence

Nmap could potentially become a GUI and provide automatic reports with one-click downloads. For example, the report could show all the open ports for an IP address with a professionally formatted report. This is a far-fetched suggestion and not really required, but it could make the work a little better. On a scale of one to ten, I give Nmap a solid nine. I mean, how can you fix something that is not broken? Nmap is already the best, and I do not think there are any other features that can be added. Its job is reconnaissance, so I do not think there is more to add to it. However, if I get any ideas, I will let them know about this.

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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 clean and colorful UI and easy to use options like snooze and active times."

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

"For getting out in front of a problem before it happens, it's absolutely superb."

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

"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."

"Custom script toolkits"

"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."

"Geneos gives us visibility on all of our systems at once and we can build dashboard views to monitor transactions moving from one system to another."

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"The real-time reporting feature of Nmap is particularly valuable. It generates detailed reports on the source and destination IP addresses, the protocols used, and the types of traffic."

"The best feature of Nmap is that it lets me see useful information about each endpoint in my entire network environment. For example, I can see every single connection of the network as well as each and every port."

"The most important function, according to me, is the capability to use some arguments in the scanning. The solution's capability to go figure and do a deep dive, discovering information on specific aspects."

"It’s an excellent tool and allows its users a multitude of solutions to scan a network."

"Nmap has a powerful command line tool and a set of diagnostic features."

"This was my first project, and Nmap was the best tool that I have used to date, and I recommend it to everyone."

"Nmap is easy to use. It's a command-line interface, and the output is quite good."

"Nmap's performance is great, and I've never noticed any issues in this respect. It really doesn't put a heavy load on the machine when using it."

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Cons

"Not a ten because when the Gateway was very overloaded it was very hard to monitor the alerts, especially for the product services."

"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."

"Its web monitoring capability is very hard to use especially if there is authentication involved."

"I would rate technical support 7/10. It's self-explaining and the support is limited."

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

"We all look at the same things - CPU, disk space, paging stats, service status with RAG status on each. That could be provided straight out, saving significant time."

"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."

"We were a little bit confused but once we found out what was needed, it was smooth."

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"The solution's initial setup could be better."

"The price is high and could be cheaper."

"Since I started using Nmap, it has been completely based on the command prompt and I think it would help other users if they implemented a decent GUI as well."

"Nmap will be a little difficult for beginners because of the learning curve and the CLI-based system, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes very powerful."

"It takes a bit of time to get familiar with the solution and its options."

"The solution should increase the number of features under a free license."

"I would like something more user-friendly to use and export data to various software."

"They should deliver Playtech's username and password."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"I am using the standard free version of Nmap."

"Nmap is open source software, which suits us well because we are a manufacturing company and not an IT company, for example. If we were an IT company, we would probably need to pay for extra support or instead go for another software solution. But as it is, we don't have any need for high-end troubleshooting tools."

"It's an open-source solution. Commerically, only the support service is available."

"Nmap is an open-source and free product."

"The product's pricing is fine. The licensing options for Nmap include perpetual licenses and volume-based licenses. For perpetual licenses, once you purchase it, there's no need to invest in renewals. And for volume-based licenses, enterprise companies can use it multiple times based on the number of users or devices they need to scan. It's a pay-as-you-go model, similar to how you pay for what you use."

"The solution is open source so it is free."

"Nmap is an open-source product. You don't need a license to install it."

"The solution is free of cost, but there are specific services that we have to buy."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

66%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Construction Company

10%

University

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	10
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

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What do you like most about Nmap?

Nmap is mostly helpful during compliance checks. We run the scanner to see how many devices are on our network and find vulnerabilities in those that aren't compliant. We also use it monthly to sca...

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I am using the free version of Nmap.

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My main use case for Nmap is reconnaissance, so identifying open ports or running services and ultimately finding the security risks or vulnerabilities in a system. OS detection is the most importa...

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Also Known As

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Overview

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

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping).

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.

Lockheed Martin, Eastern Bank Boston, Perspecta, Harris Corporation, Discovery Communication

ITRS Geneos vs. Nmap