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Luis (Abe) Ibrahim
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Outsourcing/Offshoring
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
May 2019
A feature rich alternative to monitoring solutions
The general feeling that Pandora FMS transmits is of robustness, at no time do you have the feeling that something is missing or that some module can do something else. It is a highly flexible and multiplatform solution that offers the possibility of monitoring a wide type of systems. If for any reason the element you need to monitor does not have a predefined module or plugin in Pandora you can always create a custom and specific script for what you need and through the “DataServer” process the responses to generate alerts and notifications without losing any of the functionalities that the web console offers. Additionally, the incorporation of Tentacle as transfer protocol simplifies the deployment process, while ensuring a transparent, fast and secure transfer of the information generated from and to the “Software Agents”. On the other hand, by implementing the solution from ISO based on Centos we will have preconfigured Cron Jobs that will be in charge of keeping our database in optimal conditions, ensuring the maximum performance of the solution. That for me is a great plus because it is not usual and if your knowledge in database management is not the most remarkable you don’t have to worry about this task. Being a solution running on Linux gives us an excellent relationship between hardware requirements and the number of agents that can be managed effectively, which can be up to 2000 agents using only 4GB of RAM, which today is a fairly modest amount.
Pros
User Experience: The interface is clean and friendly, also the separation between regular users and administrators is well defined without giving the sensation of missing tools or features. On the contrary, there is always some additional tool.
Cons
The definition of local Software Agents in the OpenSource version can become tedious during the initial deployment in multiple Agents. However, the Enterprise version covers this detail, allowing centralized administration and deployment from the web console.
Angelo
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Architecture & Planning
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
August 2022
If you are an IT administrator, you need it and you know it
My experience in general? I couldn't do my job well without this tool. PandoraFMS shows everything, and if you see everything in your networks, you can make improvements and fix problems, even before they arise.
Pros
We started using Pandora FMS with some misgivings. But it turns out that at this very moment and probably for several years to come, it will be an indispensable part of our IT infrastructure. Thanks to PandoraFMS, we discovered that we had no control over our assets and networks. It is well said in some Marketing article "what cannot be measured, cannot be controlled". And it was our case. We did not know where the origin of the network problems was, gigabit networks running at ethernet speed or worse, incredibly high latency. We were able to solve all this thanks to the active and passive monitoring of PandoraFMS.
Cons
I wish it had a magic button to install and configure for the first time.
Response from ARTICA PFMS
Hi Angelo, thank you very much for sharing your experience with Pandora FMS. I have good news, we already have the magic install button! ;) It is a single line command for RHEL8 or Rocky8 environments. curl -sL https://pfms.me/deploy-pandora-el8 | sh Thanks for the compliments and I encourage you to bring suggestions and ideas through our forum, they will always be heard!
Replied January 2023
Franco
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Entertainment
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
October 2019
Managing Pandora FMS
I prefer used this tools because its to good for initiators in this world of monitoring servers,routers,etc and it is easy to notification with chats online (slack)
Pros
Interface web is really good, not requiered too many knowledge to get report and graphs
Cons
I think that way to get and add agents its little difficult in comparison with other toosl (prtg)
Reasons for choosing Pandora FMS
Its to easy for installing in many infrastructures (in my case in virtual machine on Freenas) and my partner not re queried to many hours for learning dashboards, other reason is the forum and community.
Response from ARTICA PFMS
Hello and thanks for sharing your experience with Pandora FMS. I would like you to help us to improve Pandora FMS with your suggestions, I invite you to visit the forum and tell us, based on your experience with other tools, how we could improve Pandora FMS.
Replied January 2023
Neil
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
April 2022
Easy for Use
Pros
Pandora FMS is a very handy monitoring tool for daily use. Accurate with metrics and useful reporting function for analysis of server performance. We are planning to widely distributed the agent cross more servers for our customers.
Cons
Improvement in customized monitoring and customized scripts might be extremely useful.
Response from ARTICA PFMS
Hello Neil and thanks for sharing your experience with Pandora FMS. Write us in the forum about what plugins you miss and we will be happy to see if we can develop them! Our forums are at https://pandorafms.com/community
Replied January 2023
Kumar
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Civil Engineering
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
April 2022
Cloud-based powerful monitoring tool.
For a long time, we were looking for a monitoring solution that could ensure the resiliency of our web applications and finally, with the help of the Pandora FMS team, we found the right tool. Pandora FMS is an out-of-the-box monitoring solution that allows you to monitor your applications and systems and has a very intuitive interface that allows you to build your dashboards in no time. We can not wait to see what the future holds for Pandora FMS.
Pros
Pandora FMS offers flexible, reliable, and customizable IT infrastructure monitoring, faster resolution of issues, and better overall performance based on monitoring from different sources and vendors.
Cons
I have been looking for a better monitoring solution than what we were using before and I came across this. It is a complete monitoring solution that is easy to learn, use and set up. We can monitor and track everything that matters to us and we can even do it from anywhere.
Derrick
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Hospitality
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
July 2022
Quality Monitoring and System Automation Product
Pandora FMS is the powerful solution that increases the validation of different processes, the business needs, and the database. More so, Pandora FMS has a fruitful cloud space and network control for enterprise.
Pros
Pandora FMS has a cloud monitoring system, that allows businesses to conduct their operations efficiently. Besides, Pandora FMS has proper database controlling systems, which increases the value of the analytical solution, and there is credibility of the business transactions.
Cons
Pandora FMS stipulates the monitoring and the management of all the business systems, which increases automation and credibility of different business activities.
Mathew
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
February 2022
It allows to find and solve problems easily and quickly.
It allows us to monitor the company's infrastructure completely and permanently, enabling us to react immediately to any contingency and avoid technological failures in the systems.
Pros
It notifies us if something fails or if data from a dangerous or questionable source is obtained. The policy feature, which allows us to centralize everything and continuously monitor the data of VMware virtual machines, is very important to us because it improves performance and response time in the event of an outage.
Cons
It has worked very well and there is nothing negative to report so far.
Juan Manuel
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Banking
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
November 2019
Excellent monitoring tool
This tool has been of great help because we can manage faster solutions with the problems in our network, it helped us reduce our response time.
Pros
Auto discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring
Cons
So far the tool has what it takes to meet our needs.
Reasons for choosing Pandora FMS
Performance and compatibility with various operating systems
Luis Henrique
Verified reviewer
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
July 2021
Very easy to use.
That's what helped us improve our monitoring of VIP servers and computers on our clients.
Pros
Both its use, implementation and customization are very simple. And it doesn't need very robust hardware to run, which makes it cheaper to implement.
Cons
We had difficulties to integrate with some IOS equipment.
Ondřej
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
March 2022
Be in control of your servers uptime
Pros
Basically just how easy is to register a free trial and monitor our servers and and our internal shop system. Since we operate in many countries and we want to provide a 100% reliability for our clients, monitoring servers and their usage, errors etc. is really important, having all the data and statistics at one place is a must have, which Pandora FMS provides very well. Create custom reports or configure as many alerts as you want so you know your bussines is working!
Cons
You can get easilly lost in the administration since there are so many things in menu and options it can be tricky sometimes
Response from ARTICA PFMS
Hello, thank you very much for sharing your experience with Pandora FMS. Thanks for the compliments and I encourage you to bring suggestions and ideas through our forum, they will always be heard!
Replied January 2023
David
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
April 2022
Gestión de monitoreo
Anteriormente no se tenía visibilidad de toda la infraestructura sin embargo con la opción Discovery logramos tener esa visibilidad y poder tener un monitoreo proactivo y predictivo de la misma.
Pros
La integración con Azure y otros sistemas como VMware lo que facilita la implementación del monitoreo de servidores.
Cons
La instalación de algunos módulos es un poco complicada pero se tienen buenas guías en su Wiki.
Reasons for choosing Pandora FMS
Porque en cuanto a relación calidad y precio sobresalió de las demás herramientas, se realizaron pruebas con todas y Pandora FMS respondió a estas correctamente.
Reasons for switching to Pandora FMS
En su momento contábamos con la versión gratis de Nagios y por el crecimiento de la empresa surgió la necesitada de contar con una herramienta ya de pago y que tuviera soporte.
Maxi
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
February 2022
Flexibilidad, y entorno estable!
Baja de tiempos de en resolución de incidentes y servicios , estamos usando mucho la suite de reportes tanto a nivel Operativo como Gerencial. (SLAS,Capacity Planning, etc)
Pros
Es un producto, conceptualmente "Todo en uno". Que permite explotar las habilidades para monitorización, y creatividad sin limites, desde Networking, servidores, DBS , Endpoints etc.. Sea de forma nativa o customizando agentes/plugins se puede cubrir la necesidad de monitoreo sin problemas.
Cons
Creo que hay que hacer hincapié y foco en k8s (Kubernetes) . Las soluciones actuales están evolucionando hacia ese formato y hoy no hay un conector homologado en discover. La GUI necesita ser simplificada, y acompañar un poco mas al usuario tradicional.
Reasons for choosing Pandora FMS
Flexibilidad, fuerte para Monitorear por SNMP/ Networking. Conceptualmente abierto a extender y costo competitivo!
Tyler
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
February 2022
Pandora FMS makes my job easier
Pandora FMS has helped us manager the increased network workload ( because of the pandemic ) amazingly .
Pros
The color scheme of the Tactical View makes it easy to differentiate between the different metrics you follow . Plus ,you can customize the reports you get to show only what you need them to . The automated device discovery often saves me a lot of time .
Cons
While thorough , the network mapping process takes longer than ideal. The initial setup is complicated and the program overall is not the most intuitive to use .
Fernando
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
1
January 2023
Está sin terminar
Mi experiencia es muy negativa, tiene fallos graves de sincronización entre BBDD hasta fallos en los filtros que te dificultan las búsquedas y el trabajo diario. Como ya he dicho es una herramienta a medio hacer, sin terminar, no se ha probado o se ha probado muy poco. En realidad se está probando en nuestro día a día y de esta manera el fabricante lo va probando y solucionando los problemas que surgen, y son continuos abriendo tickets constantemente, por lo que la herramienta está a medio terminar. Quizá algún día la tengan a punto, probada y terminada, pero aún no.
Pros
Solo el precio, pero no la relación calidad precio.
Cons
Todo son contras, es una herramienta a medio terminar y eso siendo generoso. Está llena de bugs, tiene BBDD separadas, una en cada servidor de Pandora y eso hace que si tienes más de uno ya no se sincronicen y las BBDD se quedan inconsistentes. Cada cosa que intentas hacer ves que no funciona o funciona mal y debes recurrir a soporte para que lo solucionen y esperar a la siguiente versión, que sacan muy a menudo por la cantidad de fallos que tiene.
Reasons for choosing Pandora FMS
Yo no lo elegí
Reasons for switching to Pandora FMS
No fue decisión mía, yo no lo recomendé.
Response from ARTICA PFMS
I am sorry to hear this Fernando, I understand that you have escalated the problem to your Account Manager, if you have not done so I would like you to do so, here is my contact to escalate it if necessary. From what you tell me you are using Command Center, working in an environment with more than 10,000 agents, with all the challenges that entails. As you said, we are constantly making improvements and corrections, it is the only way to adapt to today's changing world where new monitoring requirements arise every day.
Replied January 2023
Gerald
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer Networking
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
March 2022
Easy start, some implications with special scenarios
Easier to deploy than Zabbix
Pros
Easy to deploy, out-of the box predefined monitoring, easy customizable alters.
Cons
Some features only aviable in the paid edition
Asraful
Verified reviewer
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5