For their MaaS Solution (monitoring as a service), Pandora FMS   partners with OVHcloud to ensure data sovereignty, European technological independence and top quality service with datacenters in Europe, America and Asia.

Learn all about Monitoring as a Service (MaaS)

Pandora FMS, the renowned Spanish technology company, launches its SaaS solution on the market: MaaS, Monitoring as a Service, a flexible subscription model, easy to understand and that covers all the monitoring needs of companies of all sizes.

The MaaS Solution complies with easy integration with business processes, permanent security and 24/7 availability, to be accessed anytime and anywhere.

A crucial weapon to safeguard companies from the growing demand for the Cloud, and the difficulties of finding personnel to manage the ever-increasing technological complexity. 

Particularly, since it is well known that the use of heterogeneous tools and the lack of use of AI in multi-cloud environments prolongs and delays innovation, forcing IT teams to devote almost half of their time to maintenance tasks.

In collaboration with OVHcloud

Since 1999, the year of its foundation, OVHcloud has had a single objective: to offer their customers a complete range of innovative Cloud products and bare metal with a marked European accent.

Since then, the group has provided world-class infrastructures to more than 1.6 million customers worldwide, and has an ecosystem of partners who bring in their added value to accompany the digital transformation of  different companies. 

Pandora FMS is incorporated as Advance Partner from OVHcloud, combining its extensive experience in IT monitoring software with the sovereign infrastructures of OVHcloud, and includes its ready-to-use solutions in the Marketplace of the European Cloud leader.

At the moment, OVHcloud’s powerful high-end dedicated servers are helping Pandora FMS provide its customers with its MaaS service: a service with very high standards by offering 24/7 operation. 

Thanks to the smooth operation and reliability of this product, they can also comply with the SLA of the services offered hosted on these servers.

“The ease of provision, the transparency and the wide range of options that OVHcloud now has to choose, not to mention the possibility of having servers in Europe or America, is key to deploying our solutions,” tells us Sancho Lerena, CEO and founder of Pandora FMS.
“In addition, it is a pleasure to be part of the OVHcloud ecosystem, and contribute jointly to the promotion of innovative, interoperable and trusted solutions. One more way to try in face of all the range of possibilities of our MaaS Solution,” concludes.

Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS, as many of you know, is the total monitoring solution, which allows you to observe and measure all kinds of technologies regardless of where they are located: Cloud, SaaS, virtualization or on-premise: a flexible solution that unifies data visualization for full observability of the entire organization.

With more than 50 thousand facilities in 53 countries, among its customers there are companies such as:

• Salvensen
• Prosegur
• Repsol
• CLH
• Euskaltel
• Adif 
• Santalucía
• Cofares 
• AON
• El Pozo 
• The EMT 

And other foreign companies such as:

• Rakuten
• Nazareth University in New York 
• Ottawa’s main hospital 

Also, public administrations such as:

• La Junta de Castilla-La Mancha 
• Community of Madrid
• La Diputación de Barcelona 
• And numerous municipalities in France, Portugal and Spain

The fact that data centers have evolved a lot is undeniable. This has enabled storage evolution and the execution of online applications.

Now we often talk about hybrid clouds. 

*Yes, we don’t even take the time to explain what digital clouds are anymore and we even assume that everyone has their own, small but they have them.But when it comes to doing things big, it’s unavoidable to mention the giant Google Cloud®!

Pandora FMS and the famous Google Cloud monitoring

Pandora FMS® (PFMS) during the year 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, walked slowly but without any pause, their team did not stop at all. 

And there were great improvements in quality of use in 2020!

As it happens, that’s when we introduced Google Cloud monitoring. 

Let’s look at everything in that term!

Google Cloud Platform

Known simply as Google Cloud, this platform encompasses more than one hundred components (digital products). 

It is obvious that I will name only a few, since Pandora FMS does not monitor them all

… yet.

We will classify them in several main sections:

1. Compute Engine: To run applications and virtual machines, Kubernetes, functions as services, among others.
2. Storage & Databases: For file storage and execution of database engines, all this integrated with the previous point.
3. Networking: For server load balancing (CDN, DNS, etc.).
4. Big Data: Overly speaking, analysis of large, gigantic volumes of data that are then converted into usable information.
5. Identity & Security: Everything related to online identification for own or third parties.
6. IoT: For the Internet of Things.
7. API Platform: Everything necessary for third party companies to communicate with all the paraphernalia of Google services and applications. *If you don’t know what an API is, here’s what you need to know.
8. Cloud AI: The artificial intelligence cloud with lots of resources, limited only by your wallet.

*The latter is important, your wallet, not artificial intelligence. Because it is necessary to direct debit a bank account,  or a good credit card, the payments of all these services.

**At the time of writing, I do not know if the new Google Pay (formerly called Google Wallet ) is accepted as a means of payment (most likely, because it is from the same company).

In the case of Pandora FMS monitoring of Google Cloud it is only available for the Enterprise version.

But erase those sad faces because you can request a 30-day free trial by accessing this link!

Again the change

If there’s one thing that characterizes Google since I saw it born, it’s the constant change.

As well as the number of products and services they have is immense, no  less small is the number of them that have been discontinued or withdrawn from the catalog. 

While I still keep my Hotmail email account (not available to new users), Google at most has come to offer some product similar to the one they withdraw, accompanied by a package of instructions for us to do the data migrations. 

When they say it’s over, it’s over.

Therefore, dear readers of the future, if this has happened again, please write it down in the comments below.

 *We read them all.

Monitoring Google Cloud

Pandora FMS is able to monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, so Google Cloud monitoring shares certain similarities.

Broadly speaking, the procedure is as follows:

1. We activated the encryption of PFMS database.
2. If the cloud component is not installed, you may download it from PFMS Enterprise library.
3. Now you have to manage the credentials at Google level.
4. Generate a service user in Google Cloud, and download a file in JSON format.
5. With this JSON file you will create the authentication account in Pandora FMS.
6. Once this is done, go back to Discovery Cloud and use the new credentials to access Google.
7. Select the monitoring you need and click accept and wait for all connections to be made. This link contains the metrics available from Compute Engine.
8. You will then have the main Google Cloud agent, one for each zone in which you have machines, and another agent for each virtual machine.

*Our official documentation provides more detail of the entire procedure.

At PAndora FMS we have IT professionals on an altar. Literally, one next to the water dispenser in the office. I’m serious! It even has its blessed liturgical cloth, its flattering parsley, its candles and the incense! But there are still things that these people miss. Here’s a hint: it’s related to ITOM.

IT Operations Management (ITOM) and automation

We all agree in the industry that IT professionals waste too much time every day, struggling with minor tasks within IT Operations Management (ITOM). 

And it is that ITOM covers everything necessary to support the network infrastructure that provides IT services. 

This includes both the hardware (switches, servers, data center firewalls…) as well as the company’s network and the tools needed to make sure everything works properly.

According to the latest surveys, 78% of IT professionals say they spend at least 10% of their time proactively optimizing their environments. 

This extra time spent on maintenance and conservation obviously takes time from proactive optimization. 

And this is where automation comes in. 

Automation is that miracle from heaven that sets IT professionals free to stop wasting time and focus on things that really matter, and not on boring tasks!

Of course, most IT professionals know firsthand the value of automation. 

That’s why they have their altar. *Visitable during working hours, and donations are accepted. 

But automation has not yet reached ubiquity regarding ITOM. 

And it’s time for that to change!

That’s why we want you to start considering automating the following types of tasks:

• Complex tasks with multiple steps
• Repetitive routine tasks or tasks triggered by a recurring event
• Tasks where a large amount of data needs to be filtered based on specific, predefined criteria

As we said, in these cases, automation can help the incredible intellects of IT professionals, and their almost intrinsic creativity to focus on other needs.
Perhaps, even with automation, you will minimize the possibility of human error in tasks.

What is the next step?

Certainly the next step is to consider which are the most relevant ITOM tools. 

If your megalomaniac goal is, for example, to optimize a large government network, look for the products best designed to scale and then make sure the vendor and product are approved for use in government networks. 

Here, for example, the most relevant ITOM tools could be:

• Performance monitoring
• Configuration management
• Security and intrusion detection and prevention
• Troubleshooting

If you then relax and have a tea and take enough time to consider specific processes that can benefit from automation, such as automating network configurations, you may help out your IT professionals do more efficiently tasks like: 

Meeting compliance requirements, implementing configuration changes quickly and efficiently, or reducing downtime caused by faulty devices.

And network configuration automation is only one area from among them all. 

Think about the possibility of automating workflows and your IT staff crying dramatically when finally getting their lives back! 

Or automating tasks initiated by mobile devices, etc.

Prepare for change!

Naturally, automation leads us to the development of a new type of skills within IT staff. 

The more tasks are automated, the more IT professionals become automation supervisors instead of performing those tasks themselves.

That is, while before more specialized staff needed to understand perfectly what the inner workings of each piece of hardware were like, with automation, these people need to be much more aware of how the software works. 

They need to understand application programming interfaces and how they can dictate things like policies, rules, and user access.

Conclusions

ITOM and automation together are virtually the panacea for IT professionals. 

The secret of a successful transition is to go little by little, in a gradual and logical progression. 

Securing tasks, processes, and skill sets so that they move together toward a better future filled with altars in the office for IT professionals!

My name is Sancho and I am the person who started developing Pandora FMS in 2004. I want to tell you why Pandora FMS Open Source exists and why the community is so important to me.

We tell you why Pandora FMS Open Source exists

I always liked computers, I started with a ZX Spectrum and my first game was a hacked one. 

I had to teach myself how to peel a cable to plug the RCA video output into my father’s little TV. In fact, I think I’ve spent more time learning how to solder cables, copy games, and trick them than playing them themselves. 

In the 80s, technical knowledge was what someone could teach you, there was no Internet. And, as a child, I also didn’t have the resources to talk to expert adults. 

When the BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) arrived in Europe I was 14 years old. I still remember, with pristine clarity, the article from a computer magazine that filled my head with wonders: 

“Thousands of apps and games, access to information around the globe, messaging with users around the world…” 

I could learn anything!

And there were even many softwares that I could use without having to hack them!

When I connected to Fidonet in 1990 a world of possibilities opened up. 

I started talking to university students, set up a Fidonet node at home and had the need to do my first programs for my own BBS. It used RemoteAccess and FrontDoor, applications to give access to users and to connect to Fidonet through a modem over the telephone line.

I learned TurboPascal by reading documentation online and with photocopied books in English that other users lent me. 

A student at the University of Zaragoza lent me his credentials and I accessed the Internet for the first time through a RAS built on an HP-UX. 

I didn’t know what Unix was, but I had some commands written down to download things through FTP and then through Kermit to my computer. 

Along the way I had to stick with the AT commands and run head-on with the problem of being a 15-year-old boy who hires two phone lines for a BBS in a room of five square meters.

Thanks to other users I learned how to connect with the pair of tests in the phonebox of my house to call the US for free and download the McAfee antivirus updates, which I made available to everyone. 

I later learned how to connect to the internet through Compuserve using trial accounts that lasted 15 days. 

In short, I had an insatiable craving for knowledge. 

I loved to try, combine and dig. 

I used a lot of software that is now forgotten, such as Desqview or OS/2 Warp, to try to make my PC, made with second-hand parts, have the power to work in what became one of the largest BBS in Madrid (Edison BBS).  

All the software I developed (online games, time banks and things like that) I shared with other BBS Sysop, although my code was terrible. 

*Although no one cared much about the code because everything was to be done and the important thing was that it worked. 

Most of the programs I used had to be compiled by other people with more powerful PCs, my machine took days to compile and link the binaries.

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Open Source Software Time

When I was in college, the Internet and ADSL came, as well as stacks of photocopied books. 

I tried programming video games and then my first job came. 

There I discovered that the Internet was a much, much bigger world than I had thought. Where there were servers and networks full of computers that people plugged into the web without notifying anyone, and lots of other stuff that appeared little by little… 

That’s when I discovered that it was necessary to bring order to so much chaos. 

I needed to know what was happening around me and monitor it. 

In each new work, that sense of chaos and lack of control grew. 

There did not seem to be a universal system to collect information and unify it, each had its applications, incompatible with the rest. Unlike the world of Star Trek where everything was compatible and universal.

That craving for knowledge and that habit of sharing at that time was not circumscribed to a philosophy, it did not have a name. It was a pure necessity: to share, learn, test, copy and modify.  

Some years later I discovered what the term Open Source meant. 

But it was just a name, the habit has been in me since I copied my first Game of Spectrum. 

*I once met in an interview an English developer older than me who had programmed one of those games, but that’s another story.

I spent many years learning thanks to others. 

Now I have to give back everything I have learned since my childhood. 

For me Open Source is not a license, it is not a political doctrine, it is not a fashion, it is a way of understanding life.

Sharing knowledge makes us better as individuals, as a society, and as professionals.

That is why Pandora FMS Open Source is not a “limited” version of the Enterprise version, no, the Open Source version has infinite documentation, in several languages, a changing documentation that includes everything, without secrets. 

The Open Source version not only has code, it has people who answer questions, guides and tutorials and has no limitations. 

It is made for that purpose, to bring order to chaos and allow anyone, programmer or not, to expand and improve it. Without having to share what you do, just let them use it however they want and for whatever they see fit.

There are many users, and companies, that like me when I was younger, cannot afford what an Enterprise license costs. 

I encourage them to use the Open Source version of Pandora FMS, not because it is free, but because you can learn without limit and can make Pandora FMS go far beyond what you think. 

Moreover, if they want, they can share their knowledge back and improve Pandora FMS. 

A code patch has the same value as a collection of icons or a Russian translation.

Where do we get the money?

Easy, not everyone has that craving for knowledge, to learn, to share. 

There are people who have their focus on managing problems, quickly and with professional help. 

They prefer an out-of-the-box tool that solves problems in hypercomplex and very specific environments. 

They still really want to learn and try, but they don’t have the time. Literally, their time is worth much more to their companies than Pandora FMS’s Enterprise license. 

Some Pandora FMS tools, such as policies, can be easily implemented using additional tools (or even your own scripts), but it takes time and knowledge. 

In the Enterprise version it is solved with a couple of mouse clicks.

The same goes for scalability. 

In the Enterprise version we support an active/passive HA system based on MySQL, any user can implement the same system as us, they can also build a Galley cluster to have almost infinite scalability, without the need to mount a Metaconsole (Enterprise). 

In fact we have some users who have been using Pandora FMS for many years with much larger environments than most of our Enterprise customers. 

I encourage you to see for yourself that the free spirit is still there! 

Call it OpenSource, free software, enter the license (GPL2), but above all: 

Learn, share and enjoy the process!

Let’s check out together the features and improvements related to Pandora FMS new release: Pandora FMS 762. Remember that this is an LTS, we only have two of them a year, they are stable.

What’s new in Pandora FMS latest release, Pandora FMS 762

CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS

Improved the PostgreSQL plugin to be able to be executed as a server plugin

Enterprise plugin

Through this plugin you may monitor postgreSQL databases through custom queries remotely

Go to the library 

New OpenShift plugin

Enterprise plugin

With this plugin you may monitor your openshift nodes and pods. Which can be useful to analyze their performance.

Go to the library

New WebSphere plugin

Enterprise plugin

Thanks to this plugin you may monitor each websphere application server, being able to see data from the threadpool or free memory for example.

Go to the library

New Veeam Backup plugin

Open plugin

Through this plugin you may see data from your Veeam Backup environment such as the last backup made or the jobs.

Go to the library

New InfluxDB plugin

Enterprise plugin

With this plugin you may monitor InfluxDB databases to see their performance.

Go to the library

New Redmine plugin

Enterprise plugin

By means of this plugin you can create, edit or delete tickets in Redmine with Pandora FMS.

Go to the library

New Zammad plugin

Enterprise plugin

With this plugin you can create, edit or delete tickets in Zammad with Pandora FMS.

Go to the library

Resources

Download the release note

Pandora FMS plugin library

Foro oficial Pandora FMS

I want to learn more!

Our Trial

A few days ago we gave you the opportunity in social media and through email to choose, by means of a simple survey, the upcoming names of our LTS Release (Long Term Support).

Participation has been a success! More than two hundred participants! Making it clear that you love both our releases and Star Trek of course.

* Let’s not forget that our repertoire of possible names, from which we gave you a choice and vote, was an extensive list of Star Trek spaceships.

Well…

We finally have a winning name for our LTS Release!

Are you ready?

And the winner is… AKIRA.

Our new LTS Release (Long Term Support) will be called Pandora FMS NG LTS Akira.

We already know that with “Akira” you can think of the famous and award-winning manga by Katsuhiro Otomo or his animated film with the same name. At Pandora FMS we love him too!

*Hence our little homage in the above illustration. Give it up for Tetsuo!

But it actually refers to the spaceship Class Akira. A Starfleet heavy cruiser in Star Trek that was specially designed for combat.

3,055,000 tons and a cruising speed of Warp 9.2

As much a boss and as much a geek as we are.

And that’s not all!

Our next LTS Releases will be named after the most voted ships that have followed Akira.

• Hope
• Renaissance
• Andromeda
• Defiant
• Excelsior
• Tachyon
• Stellaris
• Antares
• Apollo
• Chimera

It only remains to say that THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your participation and long life and prosperity to all of you!

The expert technologists around you, that digital magazine, your mother and your horoscope have already warned you more than once: 

IT monitoring is a prerequisite for your company’s health!

Visibility. Not a blind spot in your monitoring

But, of course, as much as you strive to be inclusive when it comes to keeping a close eye on the parts that make up your network, some systems end up escaping your attention.

The so-called blind spots. 

But instead of accepting this as an inevitable heavy cross (which, in addition, entails a great cost for your business), consider getting down to work and:

At the very least, avoid what you don’t see from damaging your IT infrastructure and the business processes that depend on it.

Remove the patch! Trace and perfect high visibility

Of course, you might be wondering:

What should a monitoring strategy include?

It is a very frequent question, which requires some zeal and work.

The determination of your monitoring strategy, in favor of greater IT visibility, must begin with creating an outline or index with the relevant information of the systems from all your platforms.

This will make it easier for the individual aspects of each system to be delivered and broken down. You will have before you the parts that interest you, the most appropriate ones, for a deeper evaluation level.

Take this outline, collaborate with the cool IT team of your organization, now actually help to define and implement monitoring with full visibility of all your IT assets.

You can take it as a high school group project!

These renewed aspects to be monitored will include:

• Observation of specialized hardware devices.
• The cloud-based networks you are using.
• Traffic paths across all systems, including hybrid cloud configurations.
• That long et cetera that remains to be defined.

And yet, there will still be that possibility that some systems will remain hidden. 

It will then be necessary to resort to the use of more comprehensive monitoring tools to help their discovery.

Is perfect monitoring possible?

I’m afraid perfect monitoring coverage is just an illusion.

Even if you have all the award-winning or top-notch monitoring tools at your disposal, it will never be enough to guarantee a coverage of perfect monitoring.

We tell you from experience:

Many monitoring tools create the false illusion of seeing absolutely everything within your infrastructure. 

It is so that you have a certain sense of security.

Sometimes it is noticeable when some data packets, which contain sensitive information, disappear from view for a while, appearing, as if by magic, within another system from your network.

Here’s solid proof of a blind spot in your monitoring.

And this test only sheds light on the current capacity of monitoring tools.

So it may sound tempting to get hold of all the monitoring tools on the market so you don’t miss anything, but, come on, this will only lead to a system hypertrophy that will provide you with a false sense of security.

Now what? Is there a technological miracle that escapes us? A definitive monitoring tool that works over good and evil and provides true security and visibility at the height of Sauron’s own igneous eye?

Go further: Machine learning

Clarity is the essence of a successful IT department. 

That’s right, security protocols and configurations must be very clear, such as for example, the knowledge of which servers host each application.

It is also more than advisable to find out the status of all the organization’s assets.

Clarity is the root with which to reach, by pulling, the hows and whys of the system’s blind spots.

To achieve this clarity/enlightening you must, of course, have the right tools. Tools with which to perform advanced analysis, with which to cross the different levels and layers of your network.

Your monitoring tool should, at the most fundamental level, bring together the complex layers of monitoring data from the multiple platforms you monitor, as well as employ intuitive levels of machine learning to help uncover hidden computing assets.

If you use monitoring tools based on machine learning you reduce the time you spend on executing the root cause analyses, while obtaining a full picture of the IT assets.

Machine learning will also help you eliminate monitoring silos, which, as many of you know, tend to become an burdensome manual task that takes too much time from our precious IT administrators.

Pure and high visibility on a single screen

I’ve scared you very much. But actually, identifying the isolated pieces of technology in your stack and centralizing them for effective monitoring and management is an achievable goal.

Monitoring configurations in a single screen give you an advantage.

Mainly thanks to their capacity to represent data from multiple infrastructure sources and to display them in a single view.

These configurations provide a unique vision of the internal operation of a network and help to identify the misled IT assets that must return to the fold.

With this type of solution, you obtain peace of mind and the capacity to operate effectively in the most complex and accelerated IT environments, while you automate the most concise tasks, for true full monitoring.

Conclusions

Obtaining full visibility of your environment by means of monitoring seems like an impossible task, buuut things can be different!

If you try it at least, you will see in a moment how you obtain higher security levels and higher response capacity in the face of incidents.

But you know, before running the 100 meters you have to learn to walk.

And to end the visibility gap you must do some soul-searching of your systems, identify each point to be monitored, and release the silos, so that comprehensive management and monitoring of your systems is possible.

From here, where else, we advise that if you are truly looking for a solution to get rid of blind spots from your monitoring, take a look at what Pandora FMS can offer you!

Resources

Pandora FMS plugin library

Pandora FMS official forum

I want to learn more!

Nuestro Trial

As we already explained on one occasion in this blog, Windows Management Instrumentation, WMI, is a technology owned by the company Microsoft®.

But there’s even more!

Things have changed and we are going to tell you all about it!

Do you already know what WMI is and why it will be discontinued?

WMIC was the WMI command-line utility, which provided an interface for the  Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Remote Protocol.

This protocol, in turn, allows remote procedure calls (RPC) with a set of extensions overlaid on Microsoft Remote Procedure Call Extensions.

DCOM is used for communication between software components such as Pandora FMS and networked devices.

The benefits of monitoring are unavoidable and this type of technology (communication and connection protocols) are used to work, prevent problems and progress.

However, it all depends on the use it is given:

In January 2021, the MITRE corporation registered the CVE-2021-26414 vulnerability, which recognizes that there was a possibility to access the privileges of a normal user, a non-MS Windows® system administrator user.

*Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures is a list of registered U.S. government information about known security vulnerabilities, in which each reference has a CVE-ID identification number.

The exploitation of this weakness  is not given by fortuitous conditions.

Never, right at first, an attacker who manages to gain access, stays only as a normal user, no, they usually become system administrators.

Thus, time and commitment are required to study the victim and achieve the task.

The company Microsoft®, concerned about the peace of mind of their customers, decided to publish and distribute the security patch called KB5004442 (February 2022), which increases user authentication.

Therefore, WMIC is not able to connect despite being a product from that same software brand.

However, that’s actually a side effect, not the main reason why the WMIC software was discontinued.

For some time now, Microsoft, progressively, has been updating, deleting and improving each of its components, and has even created new utilities.

This is the case of PowerShell, which will bear the new responsibilities inherited from WMIC from now on.

At Pandora FMS, always respecting our security architecture, we presented PandoraWMIC. Improved software for the new WMI connection requirements, which avoids this type of inconvenience, both in the Open version and in the Enterprise version.

Absolutely no one is safe from security attacks. This is only a small edge from the whole picture.

You may check our official documentation on this topic:

https://pandorafms.com/manual/en/documentation/07_technical_annexes/15_security_architecture

Bring it on Pandora FMS! If we have previously told you about our success at the Open Source Awards 2022 and the Peer Awards 2021, today we are here to tell you that we are at it once again!

We are at the top of G2 of Monitoring Software!

“Why is it easier to get unbiased information about a hotel room than about software?”

In 2012, five entrepreneurs asked themselves this question. The next day, they founded G2.

Una plataforma que en la actualidadA platform that currently has more than 60 million visits per year, and on which users can read and write quality reviews on 100,000 software products and other professional services.

More than 1,500,000 reviews have already been published, which help companies around the world make better decisions about how to reach their full potential.

That is why it is so important and honorable that Pandora FMS has become part of its Top 10 of the best Network Monitoring software.

1. Ninja One
2. Atera
3. Logic Monitor
4. Auvic
5. Solar Winds
6. Domotz
7. Progress WhatsUp Gold
8. Pandora FMS

Above many other already recognized companies. Such as Microsoft, Datadog, Zabbix, Nagios, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Entuity, PRTG, Checkmk, Wireshark, Smokeping, OPManager, Netreo, Munin, Cacti and many more.

A badge that appoints Pandora FMS once again as the total monitoring solution:

• Cost-effective, scalable and able to cover most infrastructure deployment options.
• Find and solve problems quickly, whether you come from on-premise, multi cloud or a mix of both of them.
• In hybrid environments where technologies, management processes and data are intertwined, a flexible tool capable of reaching everywhere and unifying data display is needed to make its management easier.

That’s Pandora FMS

You knew it, and now all G2 users know it too!

How did we get into the Top 10 of the G2 platform?

For now, to be included in the category of Network Monitoring, a product must, among other things:

• Constantly monitor the performance of an entire computer network.
• Create a baseline for network performance metrics.
• Alert administrators if the network crashes, or varies, from the baseline.
• Suggest solutions to performance issues when they arise.
• Provide network performance data display.

Then comes the usability score of a product, which is calculated using their own algorithm that takes into account the satisfaction ratings of real users.

This rating is also often used by buyers to quickly compare and identify on the page the top-rated products.

The number of reviews received at G2 is also important, buyers rely more on products with more reviews.

Higher number of reviews = Higher representativeness and accuracy of the customer experience

In turn, G2, apart from rating the products based on the reviews collected in its user community, also does so with the aggregated data from online sources and social networks.

And then, participate in the different categories where you can earn badges like the ones we have won:

• Best Usability. 
• Easiest to Use.
• Easiest Admin.
• Best Meets Requirements.

And as they say over there:

That would be it!

Today we have reached this milestone, and since 2020 we have been winning these categories, all seasons! Let the Himalaya tremble in fear, we continue climbing to the very top!

Bring it on Pandora FMS! If we have previously told you about our success at the Open Source Awards 2022 and the Peer Awards 2021, today we are here to tell you that we are at it once again!

We are at the top of G2 of Monitoring Software!

“Why is it easier to get unbiased information about a hotel room than about software?”

In 2012, five entrepreneurs asked themselves this question. The next day, they founded G2.

Una plataforma que en la actualidadA platform that currently has more than 60 million visits per year, and on which users can read and write quality reviews on 100,000 software products and other professional services.

More than 1,500,000 reviews have already been published, which help companies around the world make better decisions about how to reach their full potential.

That is why it is so important and honorable that Pandora FMS has become part of its Top 10 of the best Network Monitoring software.

1. Ninja One
2. Atera
3. Logic Monitor
4. Auvic
5. Solar Winds
6. Domotz
7. Progress WhatsUp Gold
8. Pandora FMS

Above many other already recognized companies. Such as Microsoft, Datadog, Zabbix, Nagios, Dynatrace, Catchpoint, Entuity, PRTG, Checkmk, Wireshark, Smokeping, OPManager, Netreo, Munin, Cacti and many more.

A badge that appoints Pandora FMS once again as the total monitoring solution:

• Cost-effective, scalable and able to cover most infrastructure deployment options.
• Find and solve problems quickly, whether you come from on-premise, multi cloud or a mix of both of them.
• In hybrid environments where technologies, management processes and data are intertwined, a flexible tool capable of reaching everywhere and unifying data display is needed to make its management easier.

That’s Pandora FMS

You knew it, and now all G2 users know it too!

How did we get into the Top 10 of the G2 platform?

For now, to be included in the category of Network Monitoring, a product must, among other things:

• Constantly monitor the performance of an entire computer network.
• Create a baseline for network performance metrics.
• Alert administrators if the network crashes, or varies, from the baseline.
• Suggest solutions to performance issues when they arise.
• Provide network performance data display.

Then comes the usability score of a product, which is calculated using their own algorithm that takes into account the satisfaction ratings of real users.

This rating is also often used by buyers to quickly compare and identify on the page the top-rated products.

The number of reviews received at G2 is also important, buyers rely more on products with more reviews.

Higher number of reviews = Higher representativeness and accuracy of the customer experience

In turn, G2, apart from rating the products based on the reviews collected in its user community, also does so with the aggregated data from online sources and social networks.

And then, participate in the different categories where you can earn badges like the ones we have won:

• Best Usability. 
• Easiest to Use.
• Easiest Admin.
• Best Meets Requirements.

And as they say over there:

That would be it!

Today we have reached this milestone, and since 2020 we have been winning these categories, all seasons! Let the Himalaya tremble in fear, we continue climbing to the very top!