Citrix EdgeSight and eG Enterprise Comparison

eG Enterprise: The Ideal Citrix EdgeSight Replacement

eG Enterprise is an ideal replacement for Citrix EdgeSight for monitoring Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop infrastructures. While Citrix EdgeSight only provided insights into Citrix XenApp sessions, eG Enterprise provides total performance visibility to the entire Citrix service delivery infrastructure – including all the Citrix tiers and the non-Citrix tiers. With powerful analytics and reporting, deep performance visibility and auto-correlated diagnosis across the infrastructure tiers, eG Enterprise is a must-have solution for all Citrix administrators:

• Monitoring the Citrix Stack
• Analytics
• Visualization
• Architecture

Capabilities	Citrix EdgeSight	eG Enterprise
In-depth monitoring of the Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop tiers including visibility to active sessions, applications accessed, failed desktops, etc.	Heavyweight agent monitors ​Citrix XenApp sessions	Lightweight agent on the XenApp servers offers deep insight. Agentless monitoring of XenDesktop VMs
Visibility into user logon performance and breakdown of logon time constituents	Yes	Yes
Visibility into HDX channels – bandwidth, latency, etc.	Yes	Yes
Monitoring of Windows server health (for XenApp and other Citrix applications)	Yes	Yes
Monitoring of Citrix NetScalers	No	Monitors NetScalers using Nitro API. Also integrates with NetScaler Insight.
Monitoring of other Citrix tiers – StoreFront, Web Interface, Cloud Bridge, Provisioning Services, XenMobile, etc.	Limited	Yes
Ability to search by user and look at that user’s session/desktop	No	Yes
Monitoring of virtualization platform health	No	Yes, supports 10+ hypervisors including VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V
In-depth Monitoring of non-Citrix tiers supporting the Citrix service – Microsoft SQL, VMware, Active Directory, Network devices, storage, etc.	No	Yes
Ability to monitor virtual desktops in-depth in an agentless manner and report on applications running in the desktop and users accessing these applications	No	Yes
Director/EdgeSight	No	Yes

Capabilities	Citrix EdgeSight	eG Enterprise
Auto-baselining of the infrastructure to proactively report abnormal usage or performance	No	Yes
Historical trending and forecasting	Limited	Yes
Multi-modal alerting and escalation of problems to administrators	No	Yes
Auto-discovery of the components in the infrastructure and interdependencies between them	No	Yes
Correlative intelligence across every layer, every tier of the infrastructure to pin-point what is causing a slowdown	No	Yes
Virtualization-aware correlative intelligence	No	Yes
Correlating performance changes with configuration changes	No	Yes

Capabilities	Citrix EdgeSight	eG Enterprise
Extensive Reporting for post mortem diagnosis, service level audits and capacity planning	Limited to specific graphs	Yes, pre-defined reports available out of the box
Completely customizable dashboards for Troubleshooting, SLAs, Capacity Planning, Helpdesk, Exec Views, etc.	Limited	Yes

Capabilities	Citrix EdgeSight	eG Enterprise
Multi-tenancy and personalized views for each user	No	Yes
100% web-based architecture allows monitoring across firewalls and private networks	No	Yes
Built-in redundancy and failover support	No	Yes
Synthetic monitoring of service performance; test from multiple locations	No	Yes

Why eG? One Monitor to Manage All of IT.

• eG Enterprise is the only single pane-of-glass, virtualization-aware, auto-diagnostic IT infrastructure performance monitor
• Gain actionable answers to performance issues, wherever they originate, from application code to bare metal
• Understand the impact of infrastructure issues on application performance and user experience
• Unify IT performance monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, reporting, and capacity planning in a single console
• Ensure a great user experience and dramatically improve IT efficiency
• Benefit from flexible deployment options (on-premises and SaaS) and IT monitoring approaches (agentless and agent-based)