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The Top Trade Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions

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Trade infrastructure monitoring – the real-time surveillance and analytics of trading systems, networks, and data flows to ensure performance, stability, and compliance – is critical for banks, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges, and trading technology providers to maintain low-latency execution, optimise system resilience, and detect anomalies before they disrupt trading operations. Across the trade infrastructure stack, monitoring spans OMS/EMS platforms, market data distribution, smart order routing, and exchange connectivity, with a focus on pinpointing latency spikes, dropped messages, or microbursts that could impact execution quality.

Given the low latency, high throughput demands of modern trading environments, real-time observability is essential. Firms need to correlate infrastructure telemetry with trading analytics to proactively address performance bottlenecks, ensure deterministic execution, and comply with regulatory mandates like MiFID II, SEC Rule 613 (CAT), and operational resilience requirements. As trading infrastructure grows more distributed—across colocation, cloud, and hybrid environments—advanced monitoring solutions are key to maintaining system integrity and minimising risk.

Today’s leading technology for trade infrastructure monitoring integrates high-precision timestamping, packet capture, in-depth network & middleware monitoring, and increasingly AI-driven anomaly detection. Real-time streaming analytics, FPGA-accelerated telemetry, and time-synchronised distributed logging enable firms to track performance down to the nanosecond level. With increasing reliance on AI-driven trade execution and cloud-based architectures, adaptive monitoring frameworks are becoming a competitive differentiator.

TradingTech Insight has compiled a list of the top trade infrastructure monitoring technology providers to consider in 2025. This list is based on a combination of A-Team Group research, together with entries and voting by our readership in our recent TradingTech Insight Awards USA and TradingTech Insight Awards Europe.

ITRS

Winner of Best Trading Infrastructure Monitoring Platform 2025 award in our Trading Tech Insight Awards (Europe)

Powered by ITRS Analytics, Geneos 7 is the next-generation real-time application monitoring and observability tool for mission-critical IT estates. Geneos 7 delivers cutting-edge real-time monitoring, dynamic thresholds, and predictive analytics, providing unmatched visibility and control over hybrid IT environments with ultra-low latency.

Designed for capital markets, it is trusted by over 90% of Tier 1 firms to ensure peak performance, operational resilience, and seamless service availability in high-stakes trading environments—where every millisecond matters. Geneos 7 empowers firms to maintain competitive edge, optimize costs, and mitigate risk with precision and reliability.

https://www.itrsgroup.com/

Beeks Group

Beeks Analytics for Markets (BAM) provides real-time trading infrastructure monitoring capturing, analyzing, and decoding network traffic at the packet level to deliver trading insights such as latency, fill rate, and execution quality.

BAM quickly integrates into complex trading environments, offering visibility into market data and order flow. The Grafana powered dashboards, highlight network bottlenecks, microbursts, and packet loss, ensuring firms can proactively optimise transaction execution speed.

BAM’s open architecture allows seamless integration with existing systems, while REST APIs provide easy data access enabling streaming to external applications. Whether deployed as a managed service or on-premises, BAM helps firms enhance performance, reduce risk, and gain a competitive edge in high-frequency trading.

https://beeksgroup.com/services/beeks-analytics/beeks-analytics-for-markets/

CJC

CJC’s MosaicOA platform is a leading observability solution designed specifically for the financial markets. It provides real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics across complex trading environments, ensuring optimal performance, low latency, and regulatory compliance.

By integrating with industry-standard messaging and market data platforms—including Kafka, Solace, and RTDS—MosaicOA enables proactive issue resolution, helping trading firms prevent outages, manage capacity, and optimize infrastructure costs. With its ability to support OpenTelemetry and cloud-native architectures, MosaicOA ensures firms can seamlessly scale and adapt to evolving market demands.

https://cjcit.com/services/observability/

InstrumentiX

xMetrics from InstrumentiX is a highly scalable trading infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform specifically designed for the most complex environments. A software solution, it runs on either commodity hardware or partners' custom appliances, allowing flexible deployment across cloud and on-premise environments while minimizing costs.

xMetrics easily integrates with legacy systems, immediately enhancing analytics capabilities. Its unique Mutations Framework supports data transformation allowing it to consume, rewrite, and enrich data streams, facilitating seamless multi-hop instrumentation and ensuring adaptability to future needs and unforeseen use cases.

Fully multi-tenanted, xMetrics supports segregated views and alerting for different user groups, providing tailored insights while maintaining system-wide transparency. Often provided as a managed service to maximise ROI, xMetrics delivers unrivalled visibility of trading plant behaviour and helps firms ensure continuous performance improvement.

http://www.instrumentix.co.uk

Options Technology

AtlasVision, by Options Technology, sets a new benchmark in capital market transparency, offering real-time visibility into network performance and giving clients full transparency into the health and latency of their network across 60+ Data Centres. As a component of the Atlas suite, it provides a client-specific portal with advanced monitoring capabilities, historical analytics, and data filtering options tailored to your needs—allowing you to track market data, order execution, and trade flow across the network.

With real-time status tracking and historical insights, firms can proactively manage their market data infrastructure and trading operations with a level of detail not available elsewhere. By eliminating blind spots, AtlasVision empowers clients with the intelligence needed to navigate today’s fast-moving financial landscape confidently.

In a market where precision and reliability are critical, AtlasVision enables seamless monitoring of data, trade, and order flow—helping firms optimize performance, mitigate risk, and stay ahead in an increasingly complex trading environment.

https://www.options-it.com/products/atlas/

Pico

Pico’s Infrastructure Analytics provides a comprehensive, proactive monitoring solution for financial trading firms, delivering real-time performance insights and 24/7 support. By continuously monitoring hardware health, operating systems, and network services, it proactively detects and resolves issues before they impact business operations.

With global Intellihands teams and a follow-the-sun support model, firms benefit from reduced downtime, optimized performance, and lower operating costs. Tailored monitoring solutions ensure infrastructure readiness for the start of each trading day, making Pico a trusted partner for firms requiring high-performance, resilient trading environments.

https://www.pico.net/

Verint Systems

Verint Financial Compliance is a comprehensive communications compliance solution that helps organizations capture, retain, manage, and analyze trade-related interactions across traditional and digital communication channels and platforms. Having pioneered a number of innovative, market-leading capabilities such as the capture of persistent chat in Microsoft Teams, this proven solution helps financial institutions adhere to complex financial regulations and avoid severe financial and legal penalties.

Verint Communications Analytics, the latest innovation from Verint Financial Compliance, offers financial services firms best-in-class AI-powered speech transcription and analytics capabilities to tackle the increasingly complicated challenges posed by evolving communications channels and requirements. These offerings can enable financial businesses to find the gaps in trade-related voice communications and proactively detect potential acts of misconduct.

https://www.verint.com/financial-compliance/

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