We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Pandora FMS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable."
"The solution has good dashboards and graphics."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system."
"Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control."
"The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring."
"This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution."
"The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"Pandora FMS is relatively new, and the interface with the older version crashes at times. We have several different operating systems, such as Linux and Windows, and Pandora does not run as well in these."
"Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios."
"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."
"Third-party integration should be improved for some commonly used products."
"It would be useful if Pandora FMS included an ISO image (or «software appliance») for each big company that leases virtual private machines (VPS), just like in AWS."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Pandora FMS is ranked 29th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Pandora FMS is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Cisco DNA Center, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wazuh, Nagios XI and SolarWinds NPM. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Pandora FMS report.
See our list of best Network Monitoring Software vendors.
We monitor all Network Monitoring Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
