Pandora FMS Reviews

I used this solution to monitor and control a network of jewelry stores. I use AI for the prevention and prediction of future problems in my company, especially in certain points that I could not control before, such as cameras and alarms.

The job of monitoring is to prevent and save on costs, and that's what Pandora does well. It has helped my company in this regard. Thanks to its flexibility, I have been able to adapt the tool to our servers and find out quickly how their console works.

They have also incorporated a substantial improvement in the management of internet protocol addresses, which makes things much easier.

The features that I find most valuable are:

• Flexible network administration
• Monitors service availability and response times
• Graphics system, exportable to PDF
• Integrated remote access through eHorus
• Complex and modular architecture
• Includes logistical support
• Strives to improve and make the user console much more usable and simple 

Each of these points I think represents the keys as to why this software works in my jewelry stores. It gives me greater control over all of the devices, the best performance, and I can interpret the data easily and much faster. The results are excellent. 

What could you say on this subject? I sincerely believe that Pandora needs new ideas for functionality closer to advanced device security monitoring.

This is my first time with monitoring software.

In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study. The best ratio of quality and price, I want to think.

I mostly read about other options but did not evaluate them.

This is the best solution if you don't want to get in trouble. Their project department has helped me at all times by adapting the software to the needs of my business. Even in the last implementation of the program, they have included a functionality that I asked for myself.

Until very recently they didn't have good multi-tenancy monitoring, but they're moving fast and they've fixed it.

Try the free version first, and later you will want the paid version.

Our primary use case for this solution is to monitor our devices.

Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control. It was simple and easy.

The most valuable features are its intricate alarm system and the simplicity of the license.

In the future, we may have double the number of devices, and we do not want to have any issues with performance in the data display.

Pandora FMS is very scalable due to the great facilities it provides for it. I think it depends more on the servers that host it, as opposed to the product itself.

I really like the technical service, and they have helped a lot with the implementation. The support team contacts the development teams to solve problems in record time.

I've never worked with another tool. We saw the information about this product on its blog, and we decided to take the risk and started using it.

On this issue, I think it is better to have technical assistance. I am not very good at this sort of thing. It happens to me with everything. 

We implemented this solution in-house, with help from their support team.

The ROI for this solution was above expectations.

The license part is the best. Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS.

I love the simplicity of the license. This makes it easy to work, with no fear of being asked for more money all the time.

We evaluated a couple of other solutions before settling on this one. They were Nagios and Zabbix, and they were too complicated at first sight.

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.

We use it for "remote desktop" via eHorus (integrated into console Pandora FMS), to check connectivity, for database status, and disk drive free space capacity. This solution is very useful for keeping track of «Let's Encrypt» certificates (expiration) for our web blog and its uptime.

Pandora FMS provides us with a general report (graphical) about all of the connected devices, which helps with planning new stations and tracking them. This solution also supports «IP address management» in an easy way, including an integrated IP calculator. Compatibility with the «Lightweight Directory Access Protocol» reduces the work required to handle our users and roles.

Enterprise version is for big business (100 devices or more); we use Community version (GNU General Public License) , both versions let us make own "details", always under our responsibility. Another valuable feature is standards for monitoring, where discrete values in generic situations can be applied to anything with very different needs.

Pandora FMS is currently very focused on monitoring so they have left out the issue of cloud deployment. After discussing it with support and in the forums, I have seen that they are working on improving their cloud side, and with the Discovery feature, which is still limited, I'm sure they will accomplish a lot more in the future.

This solution is very stable.

The solution provides for full scalability, including a schema for a High Availability Database Cluster.

We have had no need for service, as everything is explained in blog/wiki pages.

I have not previously used a monitoring tool beyond one that we designed in-house.

This initial setup of this solution is no problem. Everything is set up inside an ISO image, burned and installed into the machine. Of course, after installation, it needed to be adapted for our requirements.

We used an in-house team for the deployment.

Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available -if you have one hundred devices or more-. This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge (Community edition). Libre Software can be let tasted and tried without compromise, no pressure for buying, and no more worries (we have too many of them).  Both case use same core, Enterprise version include additional plug-in's and there is total support for specialized cases.

There were no other options evaluated before choosing this solution.

There is a community of users at pandorafms.org where you can see errors that other people have experienced, in addition to a blog with technical articles. It is all very useful.

We use Pandora FMS to monitor both on-premise and Cloud infrastructure, and some KPIs of our application. The SLA reports are simply extraordinary, it's very simple and easy to generate them and see whether the solution is behaving as expected or not.

Thanks to Pandora FMS, we've been able to adapt to every new monitoring challenge over the past seven years. That's a LOT of time in the industry.

Moreover, its powerful alarm and event systems turned our previous solutions to dust, by being able to escalate incidents easily with a matter of clicks.

We use the alert system a lot, with several actions per configured alert. These include actions like sending a Pushover notification, email, or even start a new EC2 instance.

The good thing about this system is the flexibility that provides. There's really no new technology that Pandora can't integrate with.

The SLA reports are just outstanding. It provides a clear vision about the KPIs and its evolution in time.

The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have. Besides, the documentation is really extensive and provides a lot of examples.

Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios.

The last two years have been great. They've changed their software release policy for better and improved the overall stability.

I've seen Pandora FMS setups monitoring five thousand unique endpoints without any kind of optimization. That is crazy!

So far we've been able to communicate with the company, and the community through their forums, and we love the support. They do care about good ideas to improve the product, and they are good at providing support to answer most of the questions.

We used Zabbix in the past and deprecated it because its interface lacks usability. The reporting & alerting capabilities were just inferior.

This initial setup is not particularly complex, although I took the official training & certifications, which helped a lot.

We performed the implementation in-house.

We use the Open Source edition, but I've worked with the Enterprise edition in the past. 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.

We evaluated Nagios, New Relic, Datadog, and AWS Cloudwatch. All of them were great in certain topics (more than Pandora FMS), but they weren't as good in the general sense, and comparably inflexible. We needed a swiss-army-knife solution for the next ten years, and we made the right choice.

I use this solution for the testing of possible network monitoring scenarios. I have tried the solution but I am still in the testing phase, reading the documentation and training.

I have it installed in virtual machines and I simulate possible scenarios. In any organization, it is very important to have a notion of what happens in the network. This includes the monitoring of services, applications, and nodes.

The most valuable features in this solution are:

• Large Hispanic community
• Self-detection system for host or terminals
• System of alarms or notifications
• SLA reporting and management system
• Geolocation
• Monitoring of virtual environments
• Agents for different platforms
• Administration by CLI
• Intuitive interface

I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity.  I would like to see it lightened. The somewhat long configuration means that the start of implementation may be slow.

Nice features to see would be:

• The possibility to make it work without agents.
• It would be good if it had a long history of occurrences.
• Notifications via hangouts or google chat.

According to what I have seen, this solution is stable, but I have still tried it in small scenarios so I cannot give an opinion about large environments.

I notice that it is quite scalable.

I've only talked to the community.

I have used OpenNMS and Zabbix. I switched to Pandora because it is more intuitive and there is more documentation in Spanish.

The initial configuration was simple, without anything special.

The deployment was handled internally.

I work in support and I handle several projects of telephony and VoIP. In this capacity, I need to have insight into my network environments.

It is a personal issue, everyone has different needs.

In choosing this solution I evaluated prices, platforms, the alert management system, alarm system, and reports.

I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly. Given the need for organizations to monitor their networks, I find Pandora to be very useful.

Overall, I really like the solution and I will continue training. My advice is to make more documentation available in Spanish.

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 utilize Pandora FMS to accurately maintain an up to the minute, easy to digest visual on inventory and security throughout our network for certain industry compliance of workstations and servers. We are a multi-OS environment and Pandora FMS fits nicely as it supports all of our Operating Systems with provided modules.

This solution has allowed our IT staff to visualize and pinpoint key security vulnerabilities in our business network workstations and servers. This has provided an opportunity for our IT Department to apply corrective measures. Network monitoring is fun again with Pandora FMS.

Easy installation of the Windows-based agent has made reporting foolproof. This solution has screens that are easy to understand and provide a wealth of information. Inventory tracking and auditing have become much easier to visualize. Ability to integrate with other software is very helpful, as well.

Better support for custom themes would be greatly appreciated. I would like to have a dashboard with all assets displayed, with a quick hover-over status. Think "at-a-glance" style view of all assets on one page. This would make it easy for data center admins to get an overall picture.