Pandora FMS reviews

Pandora : The monitoring tool

Opmerkingen: The monitoring of our business needs a special vision to understand the values received by the monitoring. By adding Python script to manage data in entry, and PHP special views to give correct dashboard, it's a very powerful tool, that gives exact vision of the currently health of your system.

Pluspunten:

The Pandora offers a large number of function, growing every month to cover all monitoring. It's customizable through PHP pages, Python Script, and can become a very dedicated monitoring tool. But, as a standard tool, with the Community Version (unpaid), it is already very powerful if you take time to configure properly. With the forum and bi-monthly update, it's always reactive to improvement and correction.

Minpunten:

The default views are a bit too much for developers and IT Manager. Needs some development to make it a great tools.

One of the best and most flexible software for monitoring of Applications, Servers, ITSM etc. !

Opmerkingen: Highly scalable software with wide acceptability all over across all partners and vendors ITSM and cloud environment. It helps in varied monitoring of IT servers and clouds and provides operational excellence all over. Their capability to get integrated and connected to over 500 plugins is just amazing and highly admirable as no other competitors is close to them. The Mainframe and IoT monitoring system are utilized at large scale by our organization and we are seeing some really great results today. Highly scalable and replicable across any point wide good output and performance.

Pluspunten:

The best and most promising software for complete monitoring and supervising of applications, servers, ITSM and any data device etc. end to end for its correct operating system and function. Highly popular monitoring and evaluation software in IT world as its the best software for carrying out the virtual monitoring and synthetic monitoring of the system through dashboard visibility round the clock. Best GIS tracking and highly scalable solution across multiple ITSM and devices integrated to different clouds and systems. Both free and trial version features are highly agile and continuously improves the function every now and then as per market requirements and upgradation

Minpunten:

The business processes and Tech development team are quite agile to our requirements. Though, there are few slip ups often observed while performing integration of softwares and servers across multi cloud environments. We have also requested for bringing in the customized version of the same at lower cost and price to have its maximum acceptability across all vendors and partners easily without any second thought.

Technical Specialist

Opmerkingen: Benefits of replacement a network monitoring server. However, at the cost of stability.

Pluspunten:

Multi-platform support: Pandora FMS can monitor a wide range of devices and operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, and various network devices.Customizable monitoring: The software allows users to create their own custom plugins, checks, and alerts to monitor specific aspects of their network infrastructure.Advanced reporting: Pandora FMS provides detailed, real-time reporting on network performance, including data on network traffic, device availability, and resource utilization.Scalability: Pandora FMS can monitor large, complex networks with thousands of devices, making it suitable for enterprise-level deployments.Open source: Pandora FMS is open source software, which means that it can be modified and distributed by anyone.

Minpunten:

Complexity: Pandora FMS can be a complex tool to set up and configure, especially for users who are not familiar with network monitoring concepts.Learning curve: There is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to using the software, as it has many features and options that may be overwhelming for new users.Limited documentation: The documentation for Pandora FMS is not as extensive as for some other network monitoring tools, which may make it difficult for users to fully leverage all of the software's features.High resource usage: Depending on the scale of the network being monitored, Pandora FMS can consume a significant amount of system resources, which may impact performance.Requires some technical skills: To use Pandora FMS effectively, it requires some technical skills and knowledge of networking concepts, as well as experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.Limited Cloud Monitoring: The cloud monitoring capabilities are not as robust as some other solutions and it may require additional work to monitor cloud-based resources.

The best way to monitor your servers

Opmerkingen: We are working with this tool for 3 years and its the best friend at the TI department.

Pluspunten:

Great quantity of tools to do so.Excelent STAFF and help

Minpunten:

Templates to deploy meassures like in zabbix, Ability to easily connect with Grafana.

Pandora FMS the perfect balance between price and quality.

Opmerkingen: In general, a good experience where I have been asked to monitor several servers with Windows and Linux operating systems, as well as network devices, where I have to make SNMP queries and report the health of the device, to generate trends and performance.

Pluspunten:

I like about Pandora FMS that infrastructure monitoring can be implemented in a simple way, it already has several integrated templates, so you just have to choose what you want to monitor the device and that's it, the configuration has already been applied.

Minpunten:

I would like you to improve the part where a template or configuration has already been applied, now modify it, in some cases you have to understand what the script is doing.

Nice software, lack of support (no longer supporting Ubuntu).

Opmerkingen: Pandora help us with daily support.

Pluspunten:

Ability to program different custom queries.

Minpunten:

The support. Linux base application are more difficult to set up. Installation is never fluid like for Windows applications. Only supporting RedHat and CentOS, all our Linux product are based on Ubuntu. Why not supporting Ubuntu? This is game changer for our company, we are thinking about using another application if Ubuntu is no longer supported.

Always evolving and great support !

Opmerkingen: The platform has a great feel to it and I love how they are always looking to improve the platform. I appreciate the evolution of features and how open the company is to listen to suggestions.

Pluspunten:

The ability to apply the same modules across multiple agents is extremely helpful. I like the flexibility of using these policies with various methods. I also like the ability to search for items within the platform as you build up the number of agents, it can be easy to get lost in the number of devices you are monitoring.

Minpunten:

For me, where menu items are located don't always make sense. I have to sometimes search for where something is especially if I don't use that feature a lot.

Great Monitoring Tool!

Opmerkingen: The quality and helpfulness of technical assistance is excellent. I love everything about the Pandora FMS workstation, especially the user interface. It comes with my strongest endorsement.

Pluspunten:

In comparison to other monitoring tools, Pandora FMS is among the best. Possible centralized monitoring of all infrastructure components (network, servers, apps, and databases). Pandora's features are all top-notch, too.

Minpunten:

If you're unfamiliar with Linux, the installation procedure might be a real headache.

Impeccable Remote Monitoring

Pluspunten:

Pandora FMS is a brilliant package for remote monitoring and network monitoring especially in data sensitive environment. Pandora FMS does its job as a loyal security personnel keeping us updated about any suspicious activity and helping us overcome it. It uses different serves for network monitoring and remote monitoring for ease and brevity.

Minpunten:

Sometimes there is a lag which could be overcome by using additional servers otherwise it's a brilliant package.

Room to improve

Pluspunten:

The thing I like the most it's the easy of deploy. It's like "bring your own monitoring service", you set it up and you use it. So it only depends on you and that it's great if you know what you are doing and you want to personalize everything.

Minpunten:

The worst thing about Pandora it's the lack of some basic functionalities like other products offer like correlation of metrics and the horrible UX. Something as basic as server monitoring needs to be configured when in other products you just install their agent and that's it. Some monitors in pandora needs that configuration.

Deja de preocuparte directamente sobre tu infraestructura y servicios. Pandora lo hace por ti!

Opmerkingen: Mi experiencia es satisfactoria, ya que me ofreció lo que antes tenía en varias app ahora lo tengo en una dándole un plus en las predicciones que son muy importantes en mi entorno como administrador de infraestructura y servicios.

Pluspunten:

Lo que mas agrada es la flexibilidad en la instalación, la cantidad de modulos que puedes monitorear es practicamente ilimitado. La facilidad con la que se integra a diversas estructuras. La capacidad de tener todo en uno, control, visualización, gráficos, informes, predicción etc.

Minpunten:

Los planes, se podría ofrecer planes de menor cobertura de agentes a nivel de enterprise.

Uno de los mejores sistemas de monitorizacion para empresa

Pluspunten:

La facilidad del despliegue de agentes. La versatilidad a la hora de extraer informes , etc.

Minpunten:

La biblioteca de plugins y complementos es escasa en versión enterprise.

Pandora FMS is the best solution for system monitoring.

Opmerkingen: Our company provides system management service using Pandora FMS.
Pandora FMS is the core software for our service now a days.

Pluspunten:

I can customize it easily. Thanks to its flexibility, I could integrate it with our systems. Plus, the scalability is also good. it's easy to design HA and load distribution infrastructure.

Minpunten:

It takes long time to master how to use it. Because, it has a lot of features.

A monitoring tool easy to use

Opmerkingen: We are using pandorafms for a long time, our business depends on pandorafms strongly.

Pluspunten:

Very flexible to monitor something, it can monitor everything as long as it is number or characters.

Minpunten:

There are some descriptions for old version on manuals.

Todo en uno

Pluspunten:

La instalación y configuración del producto resulta sencillo en conjunto con las plantillas que reducen aún más el tiempo de configuración de los sensores.

Minpunten:

Quizás el no contar con una extensa librería de scripts en el cual consultar, para realizar modificación en los sensores.

Keeping it flexible and looking good.

Opmerkingen: Recently, as a self taught programmer, I've been dabbing into the thought of setting up a personal server, and sooner or later starting to monitor my (ever-growing) infrastructure. During my research on the software side of things for this process, I've come across many monitoring solutions. The one that has most drawn my attention would probably be Pandora FMS. Firstly because they offer the chance to decide wether you'll need to pay for their Enterprise Edition, or if you'll stick with the open source Community Edition. That to me is a big factor since my infrastructure doesn't have the size and doesn't generate the need to pay in order to keep it monitored for now. In this sense, Pandora FMS has a very large edge over others.
Furthermore, the fact that the developers are from Spain, and although I know English, make any possible language barrier in general easier to surpass for me,considering I'm from Perú. I know this may sound as a silly thing to rescue on a product review, but being able to receive support in your own language is always something that I'm very grateful for.
Don't get me wrong, their support mainly replies and communicates in English, but in case you're a Spanish speaker, this might appeal to you as well.

Pandora FMS and how is necessary to be informed about your machines

Opmerkingen: Really cool, makes me grow in my knowledge with a lot of topics all necessary for Local Area Network administration (and remote too).

Pluspunten:

The "Recon Server" makes a quick and clean work; after a week the "Prediction Server" takes advantage!

Minpunten:

For Debian/Ubuntu maybe a little tricky; the configuration interface maybe hard at glance because is for general purpose along all the program.

Pandora FMS

Pluspunten:

The Ease of use of the product has been wonderful.

Minpunten:

Integration has been a challenge we've bad to overcome.

Pandora FMS

Pluspunten:

What I liked most about this software was that I can motorize all kinds of elements. What is better is that only with one tool you can do all kinds of things: as a network motorization, service-oriented motorization, application motorization and many other things, but for me the best are those three.

Minpunten:

At the moment nothing bad has come up because what I have been using has not given me problems so I am satisfied

Opinión del software

Pluspunten:

Su interfaz que es muy intuitiva ya que no hace falta ningún tutorial para entenderla y nos da lo que ofrece

Minpunten:

Veo pocas cosas negativas pero siempre se podría mejorar la velocidad de carga, es algo muy importante, pero por lo demás es correcto

Great Tracking Software

Opmerkingen: Keeping track of network.

Pluspunten:

You can keep up with data on your system.

Minpunten:

There is not any improvements needed at this time.

Funciona bastante bien

Pluspunten:

Es un buen software de monitorización web. La interfaz es sencilla de usar y muy completa.

Minpunten:

El software es muy grande y cuesta conocer todas las opciones (en cualquier caso no sería algo negativo sino tiempo en la herramienta)

Pandora FMS made my day

Opmerkingen: I was looking for a monitoring solution to monitor more than 50 databases (different brands such as Mysql and Oracle), after a while I found a complete solution to add to the same dashboard every single application (CRM, Ticketing System, ...) of the infrastructure along with key performance indicator like RAM, CPU, Disk memory, bandwidth, etc It took me one day to handle the product and start adding other components to the monitoring dashboard. Quite flexible and easy to adapt. Cons: I miss some templates by default to start monitoring as soon as possible

Pandora FMS: The best network monitoring software

Opmerkingen: Overall I really like using Pandora FMS for monitoring computer networks.

Pluspunten:

I really like the interactive visual dashboard monitoring system of Pandora FMS. I also like the fact that it has free version available.

Minpunten:

There is nothing that I don't like about Pandora as it is an amazing software.

Monitoring Software

Pluspunten:

This product seems really thorough. I would definitely want to implement if I had more money to do so.

Minpunten:

It is expensive. You can start off with a trial, but their NMS & Enterprise licenses are in the 1000’s.