Pandora FMS vs. Prometheus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Prometheus
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Prometheus is a service monitoring and time series database, which is open source.N/A
Pricing
Pandora FMSPrometheus
Editions & Modules
NMS Edition
$2,990
100 nodes
Enterprise Edition
$4,250
100 nodes
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Pandora FMSPrometheus
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsLicensed for individual nodes (agents), starting from 100 nodes.
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Features
Pandora FMSPrometheus
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Pandora FMS
8.4
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Prometheus
-
Ratings
Automated network device discovery8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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Pandora FMSPrometheus
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Nmap
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Nmap
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Score 9.9 out of 10

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User Ratings
Pandora FMSPrometheus
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.5
(36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Pandora FMSPrometheus
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Open Source
This program works from the roots of the problem and creates a professional matrix for each of its users. This will give them more skills and resources to carry out tasks and reduce the difficulties of operating each of the processes of my work, as well as being An ally for the manipulation and operability of all your master data; Prometheus is very easy to recommend since it is a program that fulfills its mission.
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Pros
Pandora FMS LLC
  • All-in-one software
  • Flexible and easy configuration
  • Multi-platform
  • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
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Open Source
  • Best monitoring tool that have covered all aspects of our environment of my organization with it's useful metrics.
  • Great support team offers support 24/7 and very dedicated.
  • It provides excellent insights from a variety of metrics.
  • Cloud native tools compatibility and support, push/pull options for easier metrics.
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Cons
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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Open Source
  • As I said earlier I have not encountered any major drawback just minor challenges like new users may find Prometheus a bit overwhelming with its different modules can bring confusion.
  • Also they can face issues with PromQL can be somehow complex while building an advanced dashboard.
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Usability
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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Open Source
It is usable and one can learn if few people in the team are already using it. It can be difficult to understand at the beginning because of non intuitive UI and syntax of the rules. So, I've gone for 7 points as there is some room for improvement in user interface and rules syntax.
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Support Rating
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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Open Source
Never had to reach out to them.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Open Source
Highly customized pricing plans to choose from. Lower pricing for the same features compared to competitors. Easy to reach the support team, which provided detailed documentation and helped set up the Prometheus. Monitoring metrics gets very easy after the integration with Grafana. It also has a sophisticated alert setting mechanism to ensure we don't miss anything critical.
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Return on Investment
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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Open Source
  • We are still working on the ROI
  • The ROI mentioned during the purchase has not been achieved, however this could be due to lack of data from our side. 2 years of implementation is too early to calculate and confirm the ROI.
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ScreenShots

Pandora FMS Screenshots

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