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:
| 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 |
