Pandora FMS offers comprehensive monitoring for IT infrastructure and services, supporting hybrid environments and enhancing operational efficiency with customizable architecture and seamless tool integration.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Pandora FMS | 0.7% |
| Zabbix | 3.6% |
| SolarWinds NPM | 3.6% |
| Other | 92.1% |
The most valuable features of Pandora FMS are its personalized metrics, simplicity of data, good network monitoring and configuration, easy administration of the console, interactivity and ease of management, effective communication with the supporting company, continuous software improvement, easy navigation and issue alarms, good dashboards and graphics, support for telecommunications operations, interesting and open architecture for easy extension and enhancement, simplicity of customization compared to other solutions, and scalability for large environments.
Improvements needed for Pandora FMS include faster performance and better tolerance between parallel servers. The solution should facilitate default monitor creation and enhance real-time monitoring of interfaces. The WinRM configuration file should be improved, especially for Linux and Windows operating systems.
Customization options for the dashboard and the ability to customize the value of the latest events list are desired. Mainframe integration and more process documentation in the cloud should be improved.
The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems and better analytics out of the box.
The graphical side, including built-in report generators, could be enhanced. The management console's ability to monitor large environments, particularly SNMP management, needs improvement.
The solution has proven to be beneficial in terms of return on investment.
Users have found the pricing for Pandora FMS to be reasonable and dependent on the environment.
The primary use case of Pandora FMS is for monitoring various aspects of the client's system, including network, database models, operating system models, and SAP. It is used to stabilize the infrastructure software and configure metrics.
The solution is utilized by an IT project manager and ERP system specialist to monitor IT infrastructure, applications, and some business processes for clients of different sizes, ranging from a hundred devices to 3,000 devices.
Customers have generally positive opinions about the customer service and support provided by Pandora FMS. They describe the technical support as quite good, excellent, and experts in their field. The support team is also praised for being kind and addressing issues quickly.
The initial setup process of Pandora FMS is generally considered easy and straightforward, especially for those with experience in Linux commands. The documentation provided is also praised for its quality.
The deployment time varies depending on the size and complexity of the environment, with smaller environments taking around half a day and larger environments with over 1,000 servers requiring more time. For medium or multinational companies, two or three persons are typically sufficient to maintain the solution, in addition to the 24/7 operations team.
The solution of Pandora FMS is highly scalable. It offers easy migration from other monitoring systems and can accommodate a large number of users.
The solution of Pandora FMS is highly stable. It requires minimal maintenance and has proven to be reliable during usage. However, there have been occasional false alerts for on-premises servers.
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 7 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 2 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 88 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 55 |
| Large Enterprise | 54 |
Pandora FMS provides a user-friendly platform for monitoring servers, network devices, and applications across virtual and cloud environments. Its agent options, centralized management, and high availability configurations allow it to support extensive network infrastructures. Offering robust alarm systems and lightweight operation, it adapts to enterprise needs, whether large or small. Users benefit from flexible metrics and plugins, although improvements in automation, analytics, and expanded API integration are anticipated. Challenges include interface instability in older versions and the need for improved dashboard customization, real-time monitoring, and cloud integration.
What features does Pandora FMS offer?In specific industries, Pandora FMS is utilized for IT service supervision, infrastructure monitoring, and network device management. Organizations leverage it to maintain network quality, ensure compliance, predict issues, and manage inventory and security. It supports both remote desktops and clients' systems, making it valuable for generating SLA reports and monitoring hybrid server environments. Pandora FMS's adaptability allows it to serve diverse sectors by facilitating efficient supervision and control.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Asociado/ at Infraestructura Informática | 4.0 | I primarily use Pandora FMS for monitoring, valuing its personalized metrics and data simplicity. However, I wish it were faster with better server tolerance and easier default monitor creation. We've seen ROI with this solution. |
| IT systems consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees | 4.0 | I find Pandora FMS easy to manage, scalable, and well-supported, effectively monitoring diverse systems, including SAP and cloud, for my clients. Despite occasional interface crashes in older versions and varied OS performance, it's a stable, valuable solution. |
| Network Operations Coordinator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.5 | We use this for network monitoring, valuing its configuration and customization. I hope for improved real-time interface monitoring and fewer false alerts, but stability and support are good. I rate it 9/10. |
| Independent Consultant at Maack Consulting | 4.5 | I use Pandora FMS for IT monitoring, finding its open architecture scalable and customizable. While it lacks strong out-of-the-box analytics and graphical reporting, it's stable, reasonably priced, and has good support, rating it 9/10. |
| Systems Analyst at a university with 501-1,000 employees | 4.5 | I find Pandora FMS highly flexible, reliable, and stable for extensive monitoring, offering great value. While its interface has a learning curve and support is only online, it's a feature-rich and competitive solution that I would recommend. |
| Works | 4.0 | I use Pandora FMS primarily for daily network monitoring at a bank, overseeing over 100 nodes and servers. Its simplicity and efficiency in problem resolution, wide integration capabilities, and impressive return on investment make it an invaluable tool. |
| IT support manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees | 5.0 | I find this solution's monitoring system excellent, easy to use, and very stable with superb customer service. Setup was easy. I'd like improved mainframe integration and more cloud documentation, but I rate it 10/10. |
| IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | As a Pandora customer, I rate this scalable metrics configuration solution 9/10. It offers good dashboards and easy setup, with reasonable pricing. However, APIs are missing, monitoring is problematic, and customer support needs work. |
| Services Desk Manager at Asociacion Peravia de Ahorros y Prestamos | 5.0 | We use this solution to monitor our institutional network, relying on its auto-discovery and network monitoring for stability and faster issue resolution. I wish it offered detailed downtime reports for outages, including duration and specifics. |
| IT Consultant at Duosis | 5.0 | I use Pandora FMS for IT infrastructure monitoring. Its all-in-one solution helps proactively resolve issues. However, I wish its third-party integration, specifically with tools like Universal CMDB, was improved. |
My primary use case for Pandora is monitoring.
This solution has helped us improve our organization by allowing us to create a lot of metrics on several platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. We then use these Pandora metrics to create an interface. We then pass the interface off to the central console.
Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data.
I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control.
In the next release, I'd like to see, when it comes to monitoring, the facilitation of default monitor creation.
I have been using this solution for about 10 years.
I would rate the stability of this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
I would rate the scalability of this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
My impression is that Pandora's technical support is quite good.
My opinion is that the initial setup process was quite easy.
I think that we have seen ROI when it comes to this solution.
Overall, I would rate this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
We use it to monitor the client's system, database models, operating system models, and SAP.
We are consultants and thanks to Pandora can detect a lot of disasters that other companies can't. We can offer high availability of the system to the client.
The administration of the console is very easy. I like that Pandora FMS is interactive and easy to manage.
The company that supports Pandora is called Artica, and it is a Spanish company. They are working on improving this software, and communicating with them has been easy as well. If we need a specific model of SAP, for example, they will work on a new plugin or a new tool.
Pandora FMS is relatively new, and the interface with the older version crashes at times. We have several different operating systems, such as Linux and Windows, and Pandora does not run as well in these.
In the next release, I would like to be able to customize the dashboard. Right now, the list of latest events is limited to 60. I would like to be able to customize this value.
I've been using it for two years.
It is stable, and it doesn't need a lot of maintenance.
Pandora FMS is very scalable. For example, we migrated a lot of virtual machines that were monitored in Nagios or Centreon. The migration to Pandora was so easy.
We currently have 58 users.
The technical support is excellent. They are experts and are kind. I would give them an eight out of ten.
Positive
We used Centreon before Pandora FMS. We chose Pandora FMS because it has more opportunities with SAP monitoring, and that was our main objective.
It's not too difficult to implement but has a lot of documentation. You don't have to have advanced knowledge to implement it. This is an advantage over other solutions such as Nagios.
The deployment take a year or less. For a medium or multinational company, two or three persons are enough to maintain the solution.
We implemented it ourselves.
You have to pay for the number of agents and models that you are monitoring. I would rate the cost at three with one being the most expensive and five being the cheapest.
We thought about Zabbix but decided to move with Pandora.
I would encourage you to use Pandora FMS because you can monitor systems on the cloud. You can use Pandora with Azure, Amazon Web Service, and Google Cloud Platform. It is easier to implement and monitor virtual machines and other type of systems in this cloud infrastructure.
I am very happy with Pandora FMS and would give it a rating of eight on a scale from one to ten.
We use this solution for network monitoring.
The network monitoring and configuration within this solution is very good.
The product also has good customization options.
We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution.
We would also like some improvements to be made to the WinRM configuration file that this solution uses.
We have been working with this solution for two years.
The stability of this solution is good. However, we have found that we occasionally get false alerts for our on-premises servers.
The support for this solution has been good whenever tickets are raised.
Positive
We chose to move to this solution due to how cost effective it is, and how easy it is to use.
The initial setup of this product is quite straightforward, if you have experience with Linux commands.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
I use Pandora FMS to monitor IT infrastructure, applications, and some business processes. Our clients range in size. For example, one of the bigger environments I'm supporting has about 3,000 devices, including router servers, applications, etc. The smaller client has roughly a hundred.
Pandora's architecture is interesting. It's open so you can easily extend and enhance it. It's simpler to customize Pandora compared to other solutions. It's also scalable enough to support large environments.
Pandora could deliver better analytics out of the box. You can work around these limitations with the help of other tools like Grafana. The shortcomings are mostly on the graphical side. The built-in report generators are a bit limited in some areas.
They could improve their management console's ability to monitor large environments could be improved. For example, SNMP management is only partially integrated into the management console.
I have been using Pandora FMS for the last three years.
Pandora is stable.
Pandora is scalable.
Pandora FMS support is good. They're capable and address things quickly.
I did some stuff with Tivoli from IBM. Pandora has advantages in terms of price and extendability. Tivoli is a bit better at correlation handling. The correlation engine was stronger in the IBM product.
The difficulty of the setup depends on the environment, but it's pretty straightforward in a small environment. The time required for deployment also depends on the environment. It takes about half a day for a smaller environment with a hundred similar servers. If you are talking about 1,000-plus servers distributed over various zones, the setup time increases. We have three or four admins to deploy and maintain the solution plus our 24/7 operations.
Pandora is reasonably priced, and the cost depends on the environment.
I rate Pandora FMS nine out of 10. My advice to future Pandora users is to understand what you want to monitor and know your technologies.
We use its latest version to monitor all our Windows and Linux servers.
This product has been really good for us. We took a chance with this open-source product with an enterprise offering. It has been very effective for what we monitor; servers, networking switches, fiber channel switches, web apps, etc...
It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules.
You can also use checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for hundreds of metrics. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS).
It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It seems mature for a not-so-known product.
Their support is good, but it is just online communication. It would be great to be able to just call someone and talk to them instead of always writing. It works well for if you're a decent communicator in email, but some people might find it difficult to describe in a written fashion and communicate with them that way.
There is a learning curve to the interface, but once you get used to it, it works well. They've made changes so it is getting better. They can refine the upgrade of agents to be easier. They can also do more refinement in end-user usability because not everyone is strong technically, and people who aren't strong technically might be averse to the product, even though it has come a long way.
I have been using this solution for five to ten years.
Stability is where they shine. It has been super stable. We have high-end monitoring for our data centers. We monitor all kinds of metrics in our two data centers. We monitor maybe over 2,500 checks, and the product that has been successful and always alerting us is Pandora. Even though we have other products that are supposed to give us proper alerting for temperature sensors in the data center, it is Pandora that sends the alerts.
It is fine for us so far. It probably scales well. We have almost 350 agents with about 2600 checks running on one server, and it is still running fine. I don't know when we'll reach a point where we need to expand.
They definitely have the ability to have multiple servers and redundancy. We're looking at setting up a second one so that one is running in our second data center.
It is mostly used by our IT back-office team. We are the ones most interested in its alerts. For some check we have our Maintenance & Facilities staff alerted like temperature sensors in the data centers. You can just find the OID for temperature sensors on your network switches to get those metric in addition to pointing directly to the CRAC units for even more data (humidity, ...)
Their support is good. It is just online communication. I don't know if I've ever had a remote session with them. They're Spanish, so there might be a language barrier, but their English is still very strong. I have opened cases with them, and they're very good.
I would rate them a ten out of ten for their willingness to help and for their knowledge. The gap really is the lack of phone contact. For that, I would rate them an eight out of ten.
We tried a few different products at the time. We had a quick look at Nagios, which was config-based as opposed to a database. Pandora FMS seemed to offer the easiest way to monitor.
The other products were on a smaller scale. We had some products that just dropped an agent and sent you an email straight from that server but nothing central.
It used to be complex, but I just upgraded it, and it is pretty good. I used their CentOS ISO for deployment and built the server directly with what they provide. I find it much easier. You should be comfortable with Linux.
They are very competitive on the pricing side. That's one reason why my manager keeps using it.
You should definitely look at it. It is good so far, and it does the job for a mid-size organization like ours.
I would rate Pandora FMS a nine out of ten.
My primary use case is the daily monitoring of all the network traffic for my bank client. With it, I supervise and monitor more than one hundred nodes and servers of all kinds, such as print servers, file servers, etc. From Pandora, I can have everything controlled and under continuous supervision. I supervise maintenance and optimization of the network infrastructure from Pandora FMS.
When we want to monitor a new server or a new machine installed in the pandora network, it detects it automatically and we already have it monitored.
It is very easy and practical to work with this tool and is very useful to have at all times controlled what happens on the network.
You can also monitor services published on the network.
It is very practical to detect possible points of failure in the network.
In short it is a great tool for any network administrator whatever the size of the infrastructure of your network, it will help you to have everything under control.
Totally recommended and even recommended.
Thanks to Pandora FMS, we have greatly improved our client's network supervision.
It helps us to detect problems very quickly. We can see where the problem is and it gives us the tools to solve it quickly. We have everything centralized in the same application and at a glance, we can detect problems and solve them.
What I value most about Pandora FMS is the simplicity of working with it.
The speed of locating problems and to be able to solve them quickly, so that it affects our client's network infrastructure as little as possible, is very valuable.
Thanks to Pandora FMS we have everything unified in the same point and it is highly efficient.
This software is used to monitor several elements in the network, for example, it can detect if a network interface has been down, if it has received a defacement attack in unaweb, it alerts if there has been a memory loss in any application server; among its characteristics it allows to interact with other applications or platforms in the web and it can also send SMS if a system fails or alert about changes of an application in the web.Pandora FMS can collect information from any operating system, using specific agents for each platform, which collect data and send them to the server. Specific agents are used for GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows 2000, XP, 7, 2003 and 2008. Among its characteristics you can monitor services over TCP/IP protocol, without installing agents, you can also monitor network systems such as load balancers, routers, switches, operating systems, applications or printers. Pandora FMS also supports WMI to communicate directly with Windows systems remotely and SNMP to collect data orecibir traps.it can supervise the resources of devices such as processor load, disk use and RAM memory, analyzes the processes that are running in the system, in general can receive information from anything that can be collected automatically.
The free version capable of monitoring more than 10,000 nodes and covers (without limitations) a monitoring network, servers (based on agents or remotely) and applications. With complete functionalities of reports, alerts, integrations with third parties via API, etc.
It creates its own architecture from 0, which allows it to scale perfectly in large environments. It has been possible to monitor an environment with more than 100,000 nodes without performance problems (of course, in the Enterprise version).
We also highlight its integration with mobile devices, not only to access the console but also to monitor them thanks to its geolocation system.
The only bad thing is that in the Community version that is completely free could expand the number of nodes to monitor, otherwise is a great tool.
six years.
The stability of this product is very good.
This solution is very scalable.
The support team are very good partners and are always willing to help, whatever the problem.
We used SolarWinds before switching to this solution.
The initial setup was simple and hassle-free.
We implemented this using a team provided by our supplier.
We have seen a return on investment of 300%.
This product is more expensive
We only evaluated this solution, as well as SolarWinds.
We use this product's search and review functionality to stabilize the infrastructure software.
The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable.
We would like to see improvement in the mainframe integration that this solution is capable of.
We would also like more process documentation to be added to the cloud.
We have used this solution for five years.
We have found this solution to be very stable during our time using it.
The support is excellent for this product; their response time is very fast, and they are very knowledgeable.
Positive
The solution was very easy to setup and implement. The documentation provided on the setup process is very good.
We implemented this solution using an integrator.
We would recommend organizations to use an integrator for the implementation of this solution. It made the process very quick and easy.
I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
The primary use case of this solution is configuration of metrics. We are customers of Pandora. I'm the IT project manager and ERP system specialist.
The solution has good dashboards and graphics. It helps with supporting operations in telecommunications.
The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems and we have issues with monitoring.
The solution is scalable, we have around 70 users in our company.
Customer support could be improved.
Neutral
The initial setup is relatively easy. The initial setup takes around one hour.
Pricing is reasonable.
I rate this solution nine out of 10.
We use this solution to monitor our institutional network.
This tool has been of great help because we can manage faster solutions with the problems in our network and it helped us reduce our response time.
The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring. In our institution, it is most important that our network is stable because otherwise, we cannot provide services.
It would be helpful to include the generation of reports for times that the network was out of service. Such a report should include the name of the network, the start time of the fault, the end time of the fault, and the total time out of service.
We have been using this solution for three years.
Our primary use case is the monitoring and control of IT infrastructure.
Pandora FMS is a powerful monitoring system that has enabled us to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
The most valuable feature is the single monitoring solution. We are able to control our business with this all-in-one monitoring tool.
