Observium vs. Pandora FMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Observium
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Pandora FMS
Score 9.3 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
ObserviumPandora FMS
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
NMS Edition
$2,990
100 nodes
Enterprise Edition
$4,250
100 nodes
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ObserviumPandora FMS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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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Features
ObserviumPandora FMS
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Observium
-
Ratings
Pandora FMS
8.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Packet capture analysis00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Network mapping00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
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ObserviumPandora FMS
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
ObserviumPandora FMS
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ObserviumPandora FMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Observium
  • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
  • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
  • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
  • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
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Pandora FMS LLC
Pandora FMS adjusts to the client's need, from a simple configuration of a single server to a complex scenario with high availability support without additional licensing costs.
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Pros
Observium
  • Automatic device discovery.
  • Scalability
  • Real-time monitoring.
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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
Observium
  • Documentation
  • Community support
  • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
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Pandora FMS LLC
  • Community version small features
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Support Rating
Observium
It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
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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
Observium
I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
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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
Observium
  • It is good for DC admin.
  • Only positive impact.
  • Highly recommended.
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Pandora FMS LLC
  • It is a tool with an appropriate cost that allows to have results in a very limited time.
  • Having a health dashboard and alerts of important business in the company is an important differential with any other monitoring solution on the market.
  • Monitoring can be adjusted to the business, considering service SLAs and adjusting the platform according to the needs of each department of the company.
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ScreenShots

Pandora FMS Screenshots

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