Grafana vs. Pandora FMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Grafana
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.
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Pandora FMS
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Pandora FMS is a flexible monitoring solution. It is presented as ideal for medium and big-sized environments with at least 100 devices. Users can monitor any device, infrastructure, application, IT as well as business processes and services. It allows business users to obtain information from their concerns in real time, visualizing the data in a direct way. The solution boasts users among companies and organizations in more than 40 countries around the world, who according to the…
$2,990
100 nodes
Pricing
GrafanaPandora FMS
Editions & Modules
Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
Custom Pricing
NMS Edition
$2,990
100 nodes
Enterprise Edition
$4,250
100 nodes
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GrafanaPandora FMS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsLicensed for individual nodes (agents), starting from 100 nodes.
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Community Pulse
GrafanaPandora FMS
Features
GrafanaPandora FMS
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.2
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Pandora FMS
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
7.9
6 Ratings
1% above category average
Pandora FMS
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis7.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.4
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Pandora FMS
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
8.5
6 Ratings
9% above category average
Pandora FMS
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Grafana
-
Ratings
Pandora FMS
8.4
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Packet capture analysis00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Network mapping00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
GrafanaPandora FMS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(7 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(3 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GrafanaPandora FMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Grafana Labs
Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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Pandora FMS LLC
I believe Pandora FMS is a solution that adapts to any type of scenario; it's useful for small businesses as well as large organizations. It more than meets the need to have a comprehensive monitoring system capable of sending alerts instantly and consulting historical data, logs, and trends. Additionally, for small businesses, the free version will be more than sufficient in most cases. And for those who do not want to deploy the service on-premise, there is an option for MaaS (Monitoring as a Service).
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Pros
Grafana Labs
  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Pandora FMS LLC
  • All-in-one software
  • Flexible and easy configuration
  • Multi-platform
  • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
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Cons
Grafana Labs
  • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
  • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
  • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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Pandora FMS LLC
  • The interface is not intuitive due to the number of options it has and its organization.
  • It has a free version with limitations, and another paid version. The commercial one has a quite high cost.
  • It has a certain learning curve.
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Usability
Grafana Labs
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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Pandora FMS LLC
The solution is very complete, and even includes extras such as IPAM.
Deployment can be a bit unintuitive at first, but once you become familiar with the solution and thanks to its automatic deployment options it ends up being easier than it seemed. The power and options of the solution are its greatest virtue.
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Support Rating
Grafana Labs
No answers on this topic
Pandora FMS LLC
The support team answers very quickly. They are always willing to find a solution to any need that is required by us or one of our clients.
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Alternatives Considered
Grafana Labs
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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Pandora FMS LLC
Before using Pandora FMS, tests were carried out with all these tools:
  • Nagios
  • Zabbix
  • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • IBM Tivoli
  • PRTG
  • SolarWinds
Pandora FMS allows simple customization by making adjustments to text files, developing agent add-ons without the need to be a programmer, there is no scenario where we could not take data and save it in PandoraFMS, IoT, industrial products, and everything that any client needs to monitor.
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Return on Investment
Grafana Labs
  • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
  • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
  • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
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Pandora FMS LLC
  • Substantial improvement in monitoring service. Detecting alerts on time always results in economic savings.
  • Improvement in the periodic report associated with the capacity plan. The tool is indispensable in decision-making.
  • Centralization and tool savings. Pandora FMS's versatility allows centralizing several functions into a single tool.
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ScreenShots

Pandora FMS Screenshots

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