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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pandora FMS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Pandora FMS is a 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…

    $2,990

    100 nodes

    Prometheus

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APrometheus 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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    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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    Pandora FMSPrometheus
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    User Ratings
    Pandora FMSPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Pandora FMSPrometheus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pandora FMS
    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
    • All-in-one software
    • Flexible and easy configuration
    • Multi-platform
    • Design in PERL, CCS and HTML5
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    Open Source
    • Looking at metrics such as the aggregate number of HTTP requests served.
    • Understanding how our services are performing in aggregate.
    • Easy to deploy within a variety of architectures/environments.
    • Open source so new features are added regularly and bugs are fixed in a timely manner.
    • Free so there are no licensing restrictions.
    • Endorsed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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    Cons
    Pandora FMS
    • 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
    • Customer Service: since this is an open-source tool, customer service is not that great. Generally, you get all answers to your problems in online forums, but in case you got stuck, nobody will assist you in a channelised manner. You will have to find the way out on your own, and it may become frustrating at times.
    • More metrics for dashboards shall be added per the application being monitored. Standards metrics will work in most cases but may not in specific applications. Therefore, customised metrics shall be created for some of the industry-standard niche applications.
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    Usability
    Pandora FMS
    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
    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
    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
    • 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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