
10000 feet overviewĭifferent vendors have a different solution and different ideas about monitoring. That’s why partners are so important, the Citrix Ready program is an extensive partner program, unmatched in the industry. I think for some management tasks other products can help out and add value. Director is not designed for end-to-end management of your whole Enterprise environment, nor is Studio. Of course, every tool is designed for a purpose and has its limitations or shortcomings. I think Citrix Director is one of the best tools on the market from a user-session management perspective. It provides an insight in session connected to, insight in channels, login duration breakdown and application processes. Good enough for day to day Citrix management but in need of value-add products for a whole Enteprise application stack.Ĭitrix Director is a very useful helpdesk tool to support your user when they experience issues with sessions. Citrix will only show the high-level connection status. a hypervisor, you need different solutions. Citrix studio is useful for pool management and management of the workloads from an availability point of view. Your stack is broader than just Citrix and you might want to have a holistic view of your environment. The Citrix monitoring is, of course, focused on Citrix. Citrix monitoring CitrixĬitrix Studio is a good tool to manage your environment but is limited to monitor your whole application stack. Environments are simply bigger and more complex than just Citrix components.

I see the 3rd party solutions as a value add to Citrix monitoring. Depending on requirements one perhaps could do without 3rd party solutions but in many scenarios not.

We can debate if you need 3rd party solutions or could do with Citrix only solutions. Why no Citrix alone?Ĭitrix is not like some vendors where you are stoked of monitoring. Before we look at the vendors in this space, let’s take a quick look at Citrix and what they provide to monitoring. Differences can be small and very specific. The difference in features makes the market so interesting. Not all monitoring solutions are the same and provide the same functionality.
