Compare Pandora FMS vs. Zabbix
Pandora FMS is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 14 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 11 reviews. Pandora FMS is rated 9.4, while Zabbix is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "Single-point continuous supervision makes it efficient for detecting and solving problems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Reasonable network monitoring which works okay if you don't mind the glitches". Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Centreon, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Icinga and Nagios XI. See our Pandora FMS vs. Zabbix report.
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The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature. It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything. The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors. We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going. The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business. It is easy to use and intuitive, which is really important. It does what it says on the box by giving you a visual of the state of what is going on at any one time. It is pretty simple to use, which is always a good thing. It's been very reliable in updating us if any issues crop up. We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us. | 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. 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. 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. It provides us with proactive monitoring and is very easy to configure and maintain. | We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix. Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage. Zabbix can use old data to current data to set the threshold. We can use previous data to set the threshold. We use it to monitor and manage our servers. Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures. It can send messages to our ticketing system. It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system. We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes. |
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I have an issue with DFS, distributed file services... there isn't one by default. Taking into account the difference between DFS and DFSR as well would be great. With custom sensors, there is a lot of work which needs to be done in the background, just for it to be tailor-made for the specific thing that we are actually monitoring. We take a lot of time with the custom sensors. I would like to see the customer sensor be more robust and a bit more varied. The dashboarding definitely needs improvement. The only sort of limitation is the actual probes. So, if you don't have enough probes on there, you can over flip them and cause the WMI sensors and SNMP sensors to sort of overload. Sometimes, they might timeout for a minute, but they do come back. The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it. While the desktop app is good, they could slightly improve it. We would like it to be a single pane of glass. At the moment, you can only see certain portions of information. You have to scroll through to make it more granular. We want them to develop the desktop app to be more user-friendly. Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of. We would like more cloud native sensors for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. A lot of businesses are moving in that direction, so having something where we can pull performance stats out of these cloud services would be great for us. | This solution requires proper training to get 100% out of it. 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. When it comes to the definition of local Software Agents for the first time in the open-source version, it can become very tedious. I sincerely believe that Pandora needs new ideas for functionality closer to advanced device security monitoring. Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios. I would like to have a dashboard with all assets displayed, with a quick hover-over status. I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity. I think some improvements to the Android app would be good. | I would like to see a more flexible mobile client, and better HA out of the box. The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance. I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this. Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition. I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes. |
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At the moment I'm only using 500 sensors. I pay yearly, so it's a cost that's easily swallowed. We used a product called SolarWinds in the past, and its cost was high. Whereas, PRTG came in at a third of SolarWind's cost. Cost was a factor when selecting this solution, but it just did everything we wanted it to do. Our licensing costs are 10,000 euros over three years. We have an unlimited perpetual license, so we just pay support costs and it can scale throughout the organization. We looked at PRTG and SolarWinds. From a cost side perspective, compared to PRTG, and from what you get back from it, PRTG was sort of a hands down the winner. While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year. It is about £4,500 for the first year, then about another 15 to 20 percent annually after that. So, we are looking at about £1000 running costs a year. When you think about how much an outage costs per minute, it's negligible. | 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. The open-source version offers 100% functionality and the hardware requirements for a solution like this one are very modest. In terms of money, the Enterprise version is the cheapest that I have found after a market study. My rule of thumb would be that if you need more than thirty agents, and you lack an automation tool such as Chef or Puppet, you will save a lot of time and money going to the Enterprise edition. You get the license and it includes updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of modules. Pandora FMS is easy to implement and the pricing of licenses is competitive. Only one payment and it includes support, updates, new versions, and access to the complete library of plugins except for SAP and z/OS. | It is free, which allows us to reduce costs. It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation. |
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Overview  | ||
| PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos. | Pandora FMS Enterprise is the perfect on-premise monitoring software for companies with at least 100 devices. Stop wasting your time and resources on complex and silo'd monitoring systems that are poorly integrated. It’s an all-in-one package offering modern and flexible IT monitoring, replacing the need for multiple, difficult-to-integrate, and more costly monitoring systems. | Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost. |
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Sample Customers | ||
| Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank | Rakuten, Prosegur, Repsol, Teléfonica, Allianz, Ottawa Hospital, Hughes | Bodybuilding.com, LLC., ITtelligent Consulting Services,Eltele AS, Total Server Solutions, LLC., ChinaNetCloud |
Top Industries | ||
Financial Services Firm13% Comms Service Provider13% Construction Company9% Leisure / Travel Company4% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider13% Media Company7% Government6% | Engineering Company71% Software R&D Company7% Recreational Facilities And Services Company5% Comms Service Provider3% | Financial Services Firm18% K 12 Educational Company Or School9% University9% Energy/Utilities Company9% Software R&D Company27% Comms Service Provider15% Financial Services Firm7% Media Company6% |
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Small Business29% Midsize Enterprise32% Large Enterprise39% Small Business32% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise58% | Small Business86% Midsize Enterprise14% Small Business99% Large Enterprise1% | Small Business39% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise39% Small Business16% Midsize Enterprise17% Large Enterprise68% |
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