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.
Systems Analyst at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Mar 26, 2021
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. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS).
It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It is very mature for a not-so-known product.
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 FMS offers comprehensive monitoring for IT infrastructure and services, supporting hybrid environments and enhancing operational efficiency with customizable architecture and seamless tool integration.Pandora FMS provides a user-friendly platform for monitoring servers, network devices, and applications across virtual and cloud environments. Its agent options, centralized management, and high availability configurations allow it to support extensive network infrastructures. Offering...
Features I have found most valuable with Pandora are the personalized metrics and the simplicity of data.
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.
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. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS).
It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It is very mature for a not-so-known product.
The most valuable features are auto-discovery and automatic detection of the network topology and network monitoring.
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.
Thanks to its flexibility, I have been able to adapt the tool to our servers and find out quickly how their console works.
The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have.
This solution has screens that are easy to understand and provide a wealth of information.
I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly.
The solution is so lightweight that with only 4GB of ram, it allows keeping track of up to two hundred agents from a single console.
It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain.
You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing.
We are able to control our business with this all-in-one monitoring tool.
This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution.
The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system.
What I value most about Pandora FMS is the simplicity of working with it.
Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control.