We compared Pandora FMS and SolarWinds NPM across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Pandora FMS is highly regarded for its straightforward management process, effective dashboards, and efficient network monitoring capabilities. SolarWinds NPM is commended for its adaptability and extensive network surveillance functionalities. SolarWinds NPM is commended for its adaptability and extensive network surveillance functionalities.
Room for Improvement: Users say Pandora FMS could make its dashboards more customizable and improve its integration with other systems. Many also said they would like Pandora to add APIs for integration and offer better out-of-the-box analytics. SolarWinds NPM needs improvement in edge computing capabilities and data reporting. Users also said the performance could be better and that they would like to see expanded IPAM functionality.
Service and Support: Pandora FMS support received high praise for their expertise, kindness, and fast response time. While some customers described SolarWinds support as helpful and responsive, others reported delayed responses.
Ease of Deployment: Most users found Pandora FMS’s initial setup to be relatively easy. Some users said SolarWinds NPM was straightforward to set up, while others perceived it as complex.
Pricing: Pandora FMS is considered reasonably priced, and the total cost depends on the environment. The cost of SolarWinds NPM varies depending on the customer’s size and requirements. Some users find it costly.
ROI: Pandora FMS has also demonstrated advantages in terms of return on investment. Some users reported immediate benefits from using SolarWinds NPM in terms of security and business outcomes, while others have not.
Comparison Results: Users like Pandora FMS’s management and monitoring capabilities as well as its dashboards, but the solution has been criticized for its compatibility issues, limited customization options, and slower performance. SolarWinds NPM is a customizable solution that’s easy to deploy and features comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. However, some users consider it costly and voiced concerns about technical support and user experience.
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain."
"It allows me to quickly see the status of all of my printers, switches, computers, and virtual machines to determine if any system has fallen."
"Pandora FMS provides us with a general report (graphical) about all of the connected devices, which helps with planning new stations and tracking them."
"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. It's also scalable enough to support large environments."
"The monitoring system within this solution is very good. It is easy to use and navigate, and makes issue alarms easily viewable."
"The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring."
"The network monitoring and configuration within this solution is very good."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"Network performance is the main issue clients are facing. SolarWinds checks if a node is down, and we can set thresholds for performance metrics. For example, we set it up to get an alert automatically if a value is over 80 percent. It has a full dashboard that covers CP, hard disk, and node monitoring."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."
"Improvements are needed for server and network discovery, including service-based discovery."
"Third-party integration should be improved for some commonly used products."
"An update to the Android app would be appreciated."
"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."
"We would like to see improvement in the mainframe integration that this solution is capable of."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"Consolidation of platforms would provide a smoother experience."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
Pandora FMS is ranked 21st in Cloud Monitoring Software with 22 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 6th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Pandora FMS is rated 9.2, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wazuh, Nagios XI and Netdata, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our Pandora FMS vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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