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Grafana Enterprise Stack vs Pandora FMS comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pandora FMS
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
58th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (66th), Server Monitoring (26th), Log Management (59th), Cloud Monitoring Software (38th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 0.7%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pandora FMS is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Grafana Enterprise Stack0.7%
Pandora FMS0.9%
Other98.4%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

RM
Test Lead at Calpine Group
Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights
With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.
Gabriel Glusgold - PeerSpot reviewer
Asociado/ at Infraestructura Informática
Personalized metrics; simplicity of data
My primary use case for Pandora is monitoring This solution has helped us improve our organization by allowing us to create a lot of metrics on several platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. We then use these Pandora metrics to create an interface. We then pass the interface off to the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The dashboards are pretty good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we may experience high memory utilization. It helps us to solve these issues."
"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."
"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."
"It is very easy to deploy and integrate with any application or infrastructure layer."
"It is truly reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."
"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."
"Network monitoring is fun again with Pandora FMS."
"You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing."
"The support is excellent for this product; their response time is very fast, and they are very knowledgeable."
"The support from Pandora FMS is legendary."
"Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control."
"Thanks to Pandora FMS, we've been able to adapt to every new monitoring challenge over the past seven years."
"Pandora FMS is an all-in-one solution that is cost-efficient."
"Pandora's architecture is interesting; it's open so you can easily extend and enhance it, it's simpler to customize Pandora compared to other solutions, and it's also scalable enough to support large environments."
 

Cons

"I believe there are some areas for improvement in the product. Something that could be better is the time series functionality."
"Integrating AI capabilities for automated self-healing and reduced manual interventions would be valuable."
"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."
"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."
"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."
"Productivity has been improved with the use of Grafana Enterprise Stack, but cost savings or return on investment specifics are not clear."
"The layout is good, but I think it needs some enhancement based on my experience."
"Grafana Enterprise Stack is complex and not easy or simple."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"I sincerely believe that Pandora needs new ideas for functionality closer to advanced device security monitoring."
"When it comes to the definition of local Software Agents for the first time in the open-source version, it can become very tedious."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions."
"An update to the Android app would be appreciated."
"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."
"Improvements are needed for server and network discovery, including service-based discovery."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."
"My rule of thumb would be that if you need more than thirty agents, and you lack an automation tool such as Chef or Puppet, you will save a lot of time and money going to the Enterprise edition."
"Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive."
"In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study."
"Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS."
"They are very competitive on the pricing side. That's one reason why my manager keeps using it."
"Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available."
"You have to pay for the number of agents and models that you are monitoring. I would rate the cost at three with one being the most expensive and five being the cheapest."
"The open-source version offers 100% functionality and the hardware requirements for a solution like this one are very modest."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Energy/Utilities Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
20%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?
I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...
What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?
I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...
What advice do you have for others considering Grafana Enterprise Stack?
We use Grafana Enterprise Stack in all of our clients. I rate this product an eight out of ten.
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Sample Customers

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell
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Find out what your peers are saying about Grafana Enterprise Stack vs. Pandora FMS and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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