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Pandora FMS vs Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Pandora FMS
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
38th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
30th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (46th), Server Monitoring (16th), Log Management (43rd)
Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Pandora FMS is 0.5%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Gabriel Glusgold - PeerSpot reviewer
Personalized metrics; simplicity of data
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…
Nagendra Nekkala. - PeerSpot reviewer
Is easy to use, provides great visibility, and reduces our resolution time
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is easy to use. It helps us quickly analyze how our infrastructure is performing across various services. It helps with proper log management, allowing us to monitor our systems and analyze log data regularly. It also provides security operations capabilities for monitoring system health and ensuring uptime. We noticed these benefits immediately. Our operational efficiency has been increased. It has improved our system health by monitoring the performance of data on servers, virtual machines, and containers, along with overall background processes. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides end-to-end visibility into our cloud-native environment. This is crucial because any data corruption can impact all the information we've deployed. It also aids in log management, offering parameters that extend its functionality as a comprehensive monitoring tool for CPU, memory usage, and network traffic. It has helped reduce our mean time to detect by four hours.Our mean time to resolution has been reduced by two hours. By providing access to all our network parameters, it simplifies log ingestion through streamlined calculations. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides us with faster and more comprehensive insights into our infrastructure, allowing us to focus on critical business initiatives. We saw the time to value immediately after deploying Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The network monitoring and configuration within this solution is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system."
"Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control."
"The solution is so lightweight that with only 4GB of ram, it allows keeping track of up to two hundred agents from a single console."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain."
"Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data."
"The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have."
"It is very easy to monitor multiple cloud environments. It's like a single pane of glass for us. We can use it to monitor our on-prem and both of our cloud environments as opposed to having different tools for each environment. It makes it all come together in one tool."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring gives us complete visibility without the need for storage."
"The alerts are the most valuable feature."
"The product retains a lot of log data for subsequent analysis."
"Great monitoring of network devices."
"The solution monitors attacks or unauthorized access to the information we want to protect."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring reduces our mean time to resolve. We are more proactive than reactive."
"The Add data feature lets you gather any type of log and easily analyze it."
 

Cons

"The price for Pandora FMS is expensive."
"The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"Third-party integration should be improved for some commonly used products."
"I sincerely believe that Pandora needs new ideas for functionality closer to advanced device security monitoring."
"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."
"We would like to see improvement in the mainframe integration that this solution is capable of."
"I would like to have a dashboard with all assets displayed, with a quick hover-over status."
"The cost needs to be re-examined. It's extremely expensive to run. It's also expensive to expand. That's the number one complaint all of my customers have when it comes to Splunk. It's way too expensive compared to other solutions."
"They need more EDR functionalities."
"Splunk could be better integrated with configuration manager solutions so we can automatically resolve issues without human interference."
"Splunk would be better if some tools were integrated to be able to take action on security or network concerns."
"We have both on-prem and cloud, and the challenge is getting all our log data aggregated or streams aggregated so that it is real-time. We do a pretty good job of that, but our organization is not using it as a security platform when it can do a great job of that."
"We still use Splunk Enterprise licensing. A lot of the newer features go into Splunk Cloud before Enterprise. We're not looking to switch our licensing over, so we're falling behind on the newer features."
"The solution should have more sensors regarding fiber intelligence for security measures."
"There's no standard use case available where you can see the utilization of the number of use cases I have."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available."
"Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive."
"The Open Source Community Edition is great to just explore the software, or use it on medium-sized infrastructures."
"You get the license and it includes updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of modules."
"They are very competitive on the pricing side. That's one reason why my manager keeps using it."
"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."
"Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS."
"My rule of thumb would be that if you need more than thirty agents, and you lack an automation tool such as Chef or Puppet, you will save a lot of time and money going to the Enterprise edition."
"Splunk's infrastructure monitoring costs can be high because our billing is based on data volume measured in terabytes, rather than the number of devices being monitored."
"Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive."
"I would rate the price of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring as an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"Splunk has been fairly expensive, but it has been predictable."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The solution's pricing is competitive. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten. The price of the solution could be cheaper."
"It is expensive."
"Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Educational Organization
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pandora FMS?
Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data.
What needs improvement with Pandora FMS?
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 ...
What is your primary use case for Pandora FMS?
My primary use case for Pandora is monitoring.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive. Till ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny li...
 

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Sample Customers

Rakuten, Prosegur, Repsol, Teléfonica, Allianz, Ottawa Hospital, Hughes
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