NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs Pandora FMS comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Pandora FMS both compete in the network monitoring solutions category. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE has the upper hand due to its sophisticated traffic analysis and comprehensive network visibility.

Features: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE provides detailed traffic analysis, packet capture, and application-specific monitoring. It offers deep packet inspection, making it effective for troubleshooting and performance optimization. Network traffic integration under a single platform offers extensive visibility. Pandora FMS offers flexible agent and agentless monitoring, network topology analysis, and support with multiple plugins suited for diverse IT environments. Its WMI integration and plugin library provide versatility in expansive setups.

Room for Improvement: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE could benefit from improved user experience and modularity, reducing the need for specialized knowledge. Simplifying its complex configurations might address underutilization. Pandora FMS can enhance automation in server and network discovery features. Improved out-of-the-box analytics and a better Android app would further boost its competitive edge along with expanded community support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE favors on-premises deployment requiring dedicated resources, reflecting its complex nature but providing reliable support. Pandora FMS allows both on-premises and cloud deployment, offering flexibility and less resource-intensive implementation. Its straightforward customer service facilitates efficient deployment without external assistance.

Pricing and ROI: NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, priced at a premium, provides comprehensive capabilities but could become expensive without strategic utilization. It offers flexible licensing, requiring careful ROI calculation to justify costs. Pandora FMS presents competitive pricing with a straightforward licensing model and an open-source edition available for cost-effective scaling, making it appealing for budget-conscious organizations.

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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs. Pandora FMS

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Pandora FMS

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

74th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (23rd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (54th), Log Management (57th), Cloud Monitoring Software (40th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is 1.5%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pandora FMS is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE	1.5%
Pandora FMS	0.6%
Other	97.9%

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Mohammed Hassan

Regional Director at iSecureMind

Helps us by providing root cause analysis when it comes to latency and performance issues

I would recommend NETSCOUT nGeniusONE to others yet not for small SMBs due to the pricing. It is important to have the necessary NETSCOUT experience for smooth integration. The automated issue detection sometimes has a few false positives but is overall cost-effective for our customers. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Gabriel Glusgold

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…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is that it is in line with the traffic. It already captures the raw traffic itself and then filters it, giving us the correct image. Some other companies may just extract what they think is valuable from the traffic itself. nGeniusONE is in line."

"It is the ability to collect data and analyze it, especially key performance indicators. This is before a customer would call to the service center to complain that they have had bad coverage or a dropped call."

"Among the valuable features, if it's TAP'ed well, are the density of the data that you can get and the relatively high veracity or accuracy rate that we see from it."

"It is an easy-to-scale platform."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to drill down into any kind of troubles that are reported to us, by use of identifiers."

"The stability of this product is ok."

"The ability of the dashboards is useful for discover, mapping and understanding of application behaviour."

"The fact that it's able to capture and store packets from the wires is very useful for troubleshooting with our vendors, when issues do come up. It's valuable that we have that overall data for them."

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"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."

"The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring."

"The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable."

"This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution."

"You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing."

"The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system."

"We are able to control our business with this all-in-one monitoring tool."

"It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain."

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Cons

"There is currently less visibility or GUI to analyse the packet for troubleshooting purposes."

"The solution could do more for security. It should offer more security-related features."

"The scalability needs some work. From a probe perspective, we are limited to a certain amount of throughput on the devices themselves. Without having actual hooks into the bare metal hardware for the solutions, it's a bit of a "thumb in the air" as to when we hit our capacity or when our high watermark is."

"NETSCOUT nGeniusONE's pricing is higher compared to the competitors. It is more than 15-18 percent of competitor costs. It also needs to add AI features."

"Maybe the optics cost could be improved. It's not about the product itself, but the optics cost from other companies is very high, which affects the business. When you buy a $1 million product, you shouldn't be expected to pay $500,000 for support. So, support, operation, and professional services are very expensive. It's the main weakness."

"In previous versions, we used to have an icon on the dashboard when the situation analysis would present an alert. It would be nice if that would be made available on the dashboard again. Something that could be customizable to only illuminate on certain applications."

"It could have an easier to understand interface."

"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."

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"Their support is good, but it is just online communication. It would be great to be able to just call someone and talk to them instead of always writing. It works well for me because I am a decent communicator in email, but some people might find it difficult to describe in a written fashion and communicate with them that way. There is a learning curve to the interface, but once you get used to it, it is actually very powerful. They have a lot of options, but people struggle with the interface. They've improved it though, and it is getting better. They need to keep improving the learning curve to help buy-in. I'm the guy that manages it, so I'm comfortable with it. They can refine the upgrade agents to be easier. They can also do more refinement in end-user usability because not everyone is strong technically, and people who aren't strong technically might be averse to the product, even though it has come a long way. It has a complete GUI and everything."

"In the future, we may have double the number of devices, and we do not want to have any issues with performance in the data display."

"It would be helpful to include the generation of reports for times that the network was out of service."

"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."

"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."

"The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems."

"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cost is probably the biggest drawback. Compared to some of the newer vendors that have popped up in the space, it's definitely more on the expensive side... [But] it's been able to keep its value, even in the face of the cheaper competition."

"The platform is expensive."

"I rate the price of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE a four out of five."

"The scalability becomes very expensive quickly."

"If you are able and you are willing to use everything that Netscout provides to you, it's probably a relatively fair price. The problem is that it's such a large and such a complex tool that I'm not sure that many companies would be able to use it entirely, the way it's expected to be used."

"Like any company, we always want better pricing. The pricing is okay, but it's not a cheap solution. When you want to deploy it across an enterprise as large as ours, you go into seven figures. It's not a cheap solution to get out there."

"It can be expensive, but if you have a good configuration, based on what you are looking for, it's okay, it's manageable."

"The biggest problem we have with this product is the expense."

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"Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive."

"The open-source version offers 100% functionality and the hardware requirements for a solution like this one are very modest."

"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."

"The Open Source Community Edition is great to just explore the software, or use it on medium-sized infrastructures."

"Growing the solution or migrating to the Enterprise version is easy, and various plans are available."

"In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Computer Software Company

Media Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	37

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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What do you like most about NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?

The pricing is a bit high yet not overly expensive. The cost depends on the size of the customer, as sizing controls the pricing.

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Overview

The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software provides you with tools to monitor and display information about your network both historically and in real time. The nGenius Real-Time Monitor software allows you to understand your current network usage and to plan for future needs. It also allows you to proactively troubleshoot problem areas in your network.

NETSCOUT

Pandora FMS is a monitoring as a service (MaaS) solution that is ideal for companies with at least 100 or more devices. Instead of multiple, difficult-to-integrate monitoring systems, Pandora FMS is an all-in-one solution that is easy to use. The software is able to untangle complicated technology infrastructures to easily identify the root cause of issues in order to find the most efficient solution. It does so by analyzing everything in your system, from databases and applications to services and desktops, as well as communications.

Pandora FMS Features

Pandora FMS has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Application Monitoring (APM)
IoT monitoring
Log collection
Inventory
Issue management / ITSM
Mainframe monitoring
Network monitoring
Remote control
Synthetic monitoring
Service oriented monitoring
Server monitoring
User experience monitoring
Virtualization & cloud

Pandora FMS Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Pandora FMS. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Comprehensive overview: Pandora FMS provides a comprehensive overview of your system to make troubleshooting easy. It also provides all the tools to monitor and analyze an extensive range of data, from traffic to connectivity.

Easy forecasting: With Pandora FMS, you can use your network diagram for forecasting solutions, which gives you the necessary info you need to perform maintenance.

Proactive solutions: Issues are proactively addressed. Pandora FMS provides alerts 24/7 so you can deal with problems before they grow even bigger. This also helps your organization eliminate any down time.

Solve future problems: Another benefit of implementing Pandora FMS is that it enables you to optimize your services to ensure that future issues are minimized. In addition, they offer around-the-clock monitoring and automated solutions. As a result, the solution enables you to operate your organization with maximum efficiency all the time, saving you money and time.

Personalized service maps: Pandora FMS allows you to create detailed, personalized service maps that can help you identify any shortcomings in your system and address them as soon as possible.

SLA and availability reports: With Pandora FMS, you receive critical alerts when SLA levels aren’t met, which also helps you understand when your applications and systems are not meeting your business goals.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Pandora FMS solution.

PeerSpot user Marc C., Systems Analyst at a university, says, "It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a little bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules. You can even grab checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for various things such as SMTP, etc. It is really flexible. It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. It is very mature for a not-so-known product."

Another reviewer, Alexandre J., comments, “What I value most about Pandora FMS is the simplicity of working with it. The speed of locating problems and to be able to solve them quickly, so that it affects our client's network infrastructure as little as possible, is very valuable.

Thanks to Pandora FMS we have everything unified in the same point and it is highly efficient.”

Sample Customers

Cerner Corporation

Rakuten, Prosegur, Repsol, Teléfonica, Allianz, Ottawa Hospital, Hughes

NETSCOUT nGeniusONE vs. Pandora FMS