Citrix EdgeSight and
eG Enterprise Comparison

A point-by-point look at how eG Enterprise covers the EdgeSight monitoring gap.

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eG Enterprise:
The Ideal Citrix EdgeSight Replacement

eG Enterprise is an ideal replacement for Citrix EdgeSight for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Virtual Desktop infrastructures. While Citrix EdgeSight only provided insights into Citrix Virtual Apps 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:

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Capabilities	Citrix EdgeSight	eG Enterprise
In-depth monitoring of the Citrix Virtual Apps/Virtual Desktop tiers including visibility to active sessions, applications accessed, failed desktops, etc.	Heavyweight agent monitors Citrix Virtual Apps sessions	Lightweight agent on the Virtual Apps servers offers deep insight. Agentless monitoring of Virtual Desktop VMs
Visibility into user logon performance and breakdown of logon time constituents	Yes	Yes
Monitoring of Windows server health (for Virtual Apps 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

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Citrix EdgeSight and eG Enterprise Comparison

eG Enterprise: The Ideal Citrix EdgeSight Replacement

Try eG Enterprise for free today

Citrix EdgeSight and
eG Enterprise Comparison

eG Enterprise:
The Ideal Citrix EdgeSight Replacement

Try eG Enterprise for
free today